IPad mini 2 compared with competitors

Long-awaited new Apple last presentation was updated iPad mini. Finally, it happened what so many have been waiting - "Minicom" received a Retina-display and powerful processor A7. It's time to compare the new competitors in the compact tablet market.

Of course, the "apple" gadget significantly increased in power - it is a merit of the A7 processor, which novelty makes four times faster than its predecessor in the computational tasks and eight times in chart. Mini tablet confidently bypasses on benchmarks counterparts from the family of Qualcomm Snapdragon, established in seven-inch "tablet" on Android. At the same gadget as before run for 10 hours. For this indicator, the Nexus 7 Release 2013 loses an hour, at the same time at the Samsung Galaxy Tab battery life is 10 hours, while the Kindle Fire HDX - 17 hours.

New camera "Minicom" borrowed from the iPad Air: the main has a resolution of 5 megapixels and can shoot video at 1080p. At the same time it supports a three-fold increase, detects faces, stabilizes the image and automatically focuses. The front has a resolution of 1.2 megapixels and shoots video in 720p resolution. According to this index novelty from Apple is clearly in the lead. Chic iPad mini display 2 substantially outperforms the competition - 2048 x 1536 pixels × 1200 versus 1920 in Kindle Fire HDX and Nexus 7, and 1024 x 600 pixels at Galaxy Tab 3.

However, at the price of competing solutions look much more attractive. iPad mini cost of the second generation in the base configuration is $ 399. At the same time the 16-gigabyte Kindle Fire HDX and Nexus 7 II will cost $ 229. During the 8-gigabyte model Kindle Fire HD and the Galaxy Tab 3 will have to pay $ 139 and $ 200 respectively.