Comments on: My Second New iPad mini in 24 Hours

By: Victoria

Victoria — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:07:43 +0000

I just bought a brand new iPad mini. One day old. This is my very first time charging it. I started charging it at 17%. It has been 4 hours and is only at 80%. Is this normal? Please help!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 04:58:38 +0000

I exchanged my mini today. I was starting to get some yellow discoloration in the screen. Nothing bad. My wife didn’t even notice it. But it was bugging the crap out of me. If I used it for a wile I wouldn’t notice. But if I was using my laptop and then went from my laptop to my ipad then all I saw was yellow. The guy at the apple store didn’t really see what I was seeing. But he did notice the colors were lighter on one part of the screen compared to another. So he exchanged it based on that. The screen on my replacement seems brighter and sharper then my first one. So I’m happy with that. :)

By: Patrick Jordan

Patrick Jordan — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:31:17 +0000

Hey oso – I don’t think it’s a big concern on the bad units side of things. That can happen with any device or product really – there are going to be a few that have an issue that get past quality checks. My new one is just fine and great to use.

Hope yours works great for you too.

By: oso

oso — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:08:05 +0000

Ok, now you have me worried about getting a bad unit. “sigh” Yes, I’m waiting for my 64 gig black, cellular, IPad mini to ship. But that worry is tempered by my first Ever trip to an Apple store. Apple finally opened one here in my home town recently. I went to the store to get the Zooka speaker for my IPad, ended up buying 2 ! After the kind of service I got I firmly believe I would have no problems with a return there.

By: warrengonline

warrengonline — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 16:03:53 +0000

My friends thought I was going to jump on the iPad Mini as they think I buy some gadgets as toys. True my Handspring Visor Deluxe (2000) was purchased as a toy, but within three days use of it, it immediately turned into a tool for hoarding information, websites, dates, contacts, you name it.

PalmDesktop is FAR superior and cleaner than MS Outlook. And it is FAR quicker too. I found it more efficient and people thought I was some mastermind of knowledge as I’d just have random data in contacts. Migrating that data to the Treo 300 and the final stop being the Treo 600, I love my phone.

The iPad was not my dream device as I looked hard at the Xoom. They took too long to released the Xoom, I’m glad as thent he iPad2 was announced.

I miss my iPad2 why? I charged FAR faster than my iPad3. But then my iPad 3rd Gen has 5MP Camera and Siri and Dictation. The 5MP Camera is the only plus really as what I use my iPad 3 for can still be completed on an iPad2.

Also, since the iPad Mini would not assist me in my designing, I have no reason to purchase.

But for others, I can see it being a great gift. FaceTime and iMessage would by my reasons to push at a cheaper price, albeit smaller device.

By: Patrick Jordan

Patrick Jordan — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:48:24 +0000

Agree. Apple’s customer service and support in their retail stores is generally excellent. Glad to hear your store had more of a best practice approach to security.

By: Patrick Jordan

Patrick Jordan — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:47:15 +0000

I’m not using less than 64GB either. I’ve got an iPad 3 with 64GB, plus now the iPad mini with 32GB. I just made some choices on which apps are essential for me on the smaller tablet. I want to swap to the WiFi + Cellular model when it comes out anyway, at that point I’ll weigh up whether to stick with 32GB or move up to 64 – but will very likely stay at 32 on the mini.

By: Patrick Jordan

Patrick Jordan — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 15:45:06 +0000

Right, but I just wonder whether that’s due to short supply or big demand.

By: James Guilford

James Guilford — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:54:59 +0000

We have had to exchange two iPads in the past: one on account of a sound issue, the other due to network connectivity failure. Apple’s support/no-argument exchange process kept disappointment to a minimum and customer satisfaction maximized. Apple’s products aren’t always perfect but superior customer support makes a critical difference. Oh, and our Apple store staffer wiped our devices in our presence, without prompting, and after asking if we’d recently backed the up!

By: warrengonline

warrengonline — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:50:45 +0000

I’m not less than 64GB any more. I use my device for more than games and just note taking. Shooting 5 minutes of HD video is space eating. Editing it is even more of a hassle. I am constantly deleting programs I hardly use. I might delete all of the health (eating and working out) apps. My art and video apps are more important to me. I have not even beaten Infinity Blade, but deleted it as I hardly played it.

Shadowgun kept crashing, love it, but I’ll come back to it. I notice also Sonic 1 and Altered Beast keep closing as soon as they hit the start screen.

As for the iPad Mini, I’ll pass for now. Something my sister might like. Not sure though.

By: brandon

brandon — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:14:18 +0000

Here’s what you can read in to the lack of 16GB iPads. That wasn’t a problem at just your location. Most I contacted had 32 and 64 GB (black) very few if any white models left and none had 16GB white or black.