iPad Mini...

I'm hoping to get my Wife a 32GB Wifi version for no more than £250!

She may have to start looking at the Nexus :(
 
mrbell1984 said:
I was hoping the £150 mark as these were going to be presents for this christmas. Looks like I won't be buying them if they are above £150.
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Google barely break even selling the Nexus 7 8GB for £159 so there is no way Apple would charge anywhere near that so i reckon the £250 price someone quoted will be about right.
 
Slumberbox said:
What is 'do not disturb' :confused:
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Do Not Disturb basically allows you to leave the phone on, say, overnight and emails and calls won't wake you up because they'll be muted. You can set it up so that certain people CAN call you (e.g. family members), or if people ring persistently (an emergency, perhaps) then it'd let the call through as well. It's quite handy.
 
Somnambulist said:
Do Not Disturb basically allows you to leave the phone on, say, overnight and emails and calls won't wake you up because they'll be muted. You can set it up so that certain people CAN call you (e.g. family members), or if people ring persistently (an emergency, perhaps) then it'd let the call through as well. It's quite handy.
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I use it every night... Set up to automatically activate 10:30 until 07:00

Favourite contacts can contact me (it'd only be an emergency if they did) and Emails, FB/Twitter notifications, and messages are muted so they won't wake me up.

It's the one thing that I like (and use) from the new OS
 
Do not disturb function is awesome :) no more phone calls for me when I have a day off and they are short staffed at work :p only down side is no one from work can get hold of me when I'm late lol :)
 
DIABLO said:
Google barely break even selling the Nexus 7 8GB for £159 so there is no way Apple would charge anywhere near that so i reckon the £250 price someone quoted will be about right.
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Well i was also hoping for sub £200. While the Nexus 7 8Gb is £159 there are plenty of sub £100 7" tablets on the market. They may not have the build quality or styling of the Nexus/ipad mini they are just as functional with the latest Android OS. The type of customers that have not got a tablet yet are the casual users that are just after browsing and possibly book reader etc. When its on the shelf in Comet/Argos/Currys/PC World at £99 for a cheapo tablet against one thats well over double the price i can see them not selling in droves.
 
Skyline said:
Well i was also hoping for sub £200. While the Nexus 7 8Gb is £159 there are plenty of sub £100 7" tablets on the market. They may not have the build quality or styling of the Nexus/ipad mini they are just as functional with the latest Android OS. The type of customers that have not got a tablet yet are the casual users that are just after browsing and possibly book reader etc. When its on the shelf in Comet/Argos/Currys/PC World at £99 for a cheapo tablet against one thats well over double the price i can see them not selling in droves.
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The iPad starts at £400 and outsells every other tablet combined.
 
"Has" sold more, its a different market now. Who with an ipad3 is going to buy a Ipad Mini? I am not saying that it wont sell i am saying that it would sell a lot more if it wasnt double/triple the price that you can buy another 7" tablet.
 
Skyline said:
"Has" sold more, its a different market now. Who with an ipad3 is going to buy a Ipad Mini? I am not saying that it wont sell i am saying that it would sell a lot more if it wasnt double/triple the price that you can buy another 7" tablet.
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No, it continues to outsell every other tablet combined with more than two thirds of the market and large profits per unit.
Why would they slash their profits and cheapen their image to sell a few more units? You realise that the Nexus and Fire are sold at cost right? And it's obvious that a mini iPad will be much better specced and built than either.
 
FragnaticDeath said:
iPad 3 battery was terrible. Within 3-4 days usage it was quite noticeable how much worse it was comparing to an ipad 2. Ended up getting my iPad 2 back from my brother and gave him the iPad 3.

Hope the iPad mini battery life will be better than the iPad 2 fingers crossed
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You must be mad; choosing the iPad2 over the iPad3. The increased resolution counters the slightly worse battery for me.
 
For storage and price factors, I personally would get the N7 over the iPad mini. But….. at the end of the day I have to consider who this tablet is going be bought for, and as it’s for the GF who already has a 4S and is already integrated into the Apple ecosystem, I’m most likely going to have to get the Mini.

So, £200 for the 8GB Wi-Fi base model and I’m in. And will order as soon as it’s possible to. For what it will be used for (iPlayer downloading, a few apps and some web browsing at home), I think that will be more than sufficient.

Anything more than that though and she’s getting the Nexus 7. lol
 
ic1male said:
Speaking of books, what's iBooks like? Is it a worthy competitor to the Kindle ecosystem?
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The application is a little better but there's less available and Amazon are generally cheaper, and should be cheaper still once the issue with publishers and Apple price fixing is fully resolved.

Reading on a backlit screen is very poor though, e-ink is so much better.
 
AbsenceJam said:
Reading on a backlit screen is very poor though, e-ink is so much better.
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This is what I'm wondering about. Mainly I want a tablet to do everything but I think I might be better off getting a Paperwhite as I really want to get into reading again (had enough of console gaming suck up all my time) and then upgrading my seriously ancient phone (Nokia 1600 - look it up!) to an iPhone 5 for casual games/web, etc.
 
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