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Apple reveals updated iPad mini with a bigger OLED screen for $700

Apple's iPad mini now starts at $699, a hundred dollars above the old model, with pre-orders opening October 28; the refresh rate reportedly stayed put.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentDoctor Nina Byte. I've read the fine print.

  2. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentApple's new iPad mini has an 8. 5-inch OLED screen, up from 8. 3, and it starts at six ninety-nine, a hundred dollars more than before.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentApple's newsroom calls it the biggest update ever for the iPad mini.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe screen grew two tenths of an inch.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA hundred dollars for two tenths is fifty dollars a tenth. Apple calls that the biggest update ever, and I assume it means the invoice.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe brightness is up to twelve hundred nits, though, more than double the old one, so people will buy it for the OLED alone.

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSure. But a reviewer says it still looks like sixty hertz, no ProMotion.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's brighter but not smoother?

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentPre-orders open October twenty-eighth and it ships November sixth. Fifty dollars a tenth, and the refresh rate is the only thing that didn't grow.

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