Apple iPad Mini Retina Is the Best Mid-Sized Tablet

Virtually every good (and bad) thing you can say about Apple's iPad Air is applicable to the new iPad mini with Retina display. The 7.8-inch tablet's second edition is virtually identical inside and out to the 9.7-inch iPad Air, with the obvious exception of size and weight.

Both tablets have a powerful, dual-core A7 chip, an M7 motion coprocessor, a 1.2-megapixel, 720p FaceTime camera, a 5-megapixel, 1080p iSight camera, MIMO Wi-Fi technology, a single radio for all bands of LTE (if you buy the 4G model) and Retina display

The iPad mini Retina also has the same resolution as the iPad Air, but naturally, in a smaller frame. What happens when you squeeze a 2,048 x 1,536-pixel resolution into a 7.9-inch display? You get a whopping 326 pixels per inch. In comparison, the iPad Air only offers 264 ppi. The mini’s resolution actually beats Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX 7-inch, which boasts 323 ppi in its 1,920 x 1,200-pixel resolution screen. Read more...