The mini tablet category starts at around 7 inches and that — along with physical hand - span size — puts something of a natural break on phone screen inflation.
Not exact matches
The J.P. Morgan analysts consider the full - sized, $ 500 - plus iPad to be the
tablet category's high - end, but they're wrong — the $ 325 iPad
Mini now represents the top of the line.
That's more than double the
tablet category average of 82 percent, and it blows away the Google Nexus 9 (102 percent) and the iPad
mini 3, which covers a mere 67 percent.
But the
mini tablets are growing rapidly in popularity and market share, so it's a fiercely competitive
category.
The Galaxy Note 8.0 — the newest device in Samsung's many - sized range of
tablets, unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona — has just managed to trump Apple's iPad
Mini in the small
tablet category with one - tenth of an inch more of screen space (more on the device in our hands - on).
On our light meter, which measures display brightness in lux, the Galaxy Tab S 8.4 scored 505, well above the 348
tablet category average, iPad
Mini with Retina (390 lux), Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (465 lux) and the LG G Pad 8.3 (273 lux).
On Geekbench 3, a synthetic benchmark that measuriPad
Mini with Retina Displayab S 8.4 scored a strong 2,768, higher than the
tablet category average of 2,141, the A7 - powered iPad
Mini with Retina Display (2,519) and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 - powered LG G Pad 8.3 (1,717)..
Among all existing
Tablets of any size, the iPad
mini 4 takes first place and breaks performance records in many of the most important test
categories including: lowest screen Reflectance (2.0 percent), highest contrast rating in high ambient light (225), a near perfect log - straight intensity scale and gamma of 2.22, and the highest absolute color accuracy (average / maximum color errors of 1.9 and 4.2 JNCD — tied for first place with the Microsoft Surface Pro 4).
At 417 nits on our light meter, the
tablet outshines the
category average (348 nits), the Dell Venue 8 7000 (235 nits) and the iPad
mini 3 (383 nits).
These
Mini Tablets include some of the most impressive and innovative displays and display technologies, which is perhaps not that surprising given how popular and competitive this mobile
category has become.
But the
Mini Tablets are growing rapidly in popularity and market share, so it's a fiercely competitive
category.
That's better than the
tablet category average (5.3) and the Venue 8 7000 (4.2), but the iPad
Mini 3 was slightly better (2.4).
Of course, the big question is how the rumored iPad
Mini will affect the 7 inch
Tablet category, and how will the Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7 be impacted by its expected introduction in October?
Rumors of a Windows
tablet in the 7 - to 8 - inch
category have flared up after an Amazon retailer posted a listing for a casing for the non-existent Surface
Mini early in May.
Product design life cycles dictate that Apple was likely to already be working on the iPad
mini as jobs panned the nascent
category of small
tablets.
The man that made the Surface
Mini tablet, who thinks it's awesome and still uses it as a reliable note - taking tool is now responsible for designing smartphones, a category of devices many smartphone users use as mini tabl
Mini tablet, who thinks it's awesome and still uses it as a reliable note - taking tool is now responsible for designing smartphones, a
category of devices many smartphone users use as
mini tabl
mini tablets.