It seems that despite being renewed a year later than it should have and that the changes have been so small that they were not even worthy of a small moment of prominence in Apple's last Keynote, the iPad Mini 4 is still very much alive and well. He beats his older brothers in one important aspect: his screen. At least this is what they assure in DisplayMate, who affirm in the last report in which they have compared the screens of the iPad Mini 4 launched this year 2015 with those of the iPad Air 2 of 2014 and the current iPad Pro and has won by far, reaching to say that "IPad Mini 4 has the best LCD screen a tablet has ever had".
The iPad Mini 4 has therefore earned the accolade of "the best and most accurate LCD screen we've ever tested on a tablet." The iPad Pro has also had good reviews in its report, and its screen has scored in various sections of the test with ratings ranging from "Very good" to "Excellent". The worst stop has been the screen of the iPad Air 2, which is not that it has had bad results, but it has lagged behind those of the other Apple tablets, something that is not surprising because it is the device that takes the longest Not updated when released in 2014.
One of the aspects in which the iPad Mini 4 stands out the most is in the color range of its screen while the larger tablets, iPad Pro and Air 2 suffer from oversaturated blue colors. The three tablets stand out in the visibility of their screen in bright environments, where DisplayMate ensures that they are unrivaled in the category of tablets. The iPad Pro comes out very well in terms of its "Contrast Ratio", that is, the difference between the whitest white and the blackest black, an aspect in which the iPad Pro wins by a landslide with a figure of 1,631 never achieved by any tablet with an LCD screen.
As the changes of the iPad Mini 4 have been very small Luis? You are not talking about the iPad Mini 3 ??? Because in fact the only change that the iPad Mini 3 underwent with respect to the iPad Mini 2 was the inclusion of the Touch iD, nothing more. The rest of the components (micro, RAM, etc, etc) were exactly the same.
In the iPad Mini 4 the processor, coprocessor, RAM, main camera that goes from 5 to 8 Mpx, the Wifi chip, the Bluetooth chip, the inclusion of a barometer, and above all and above all, and as you well say at the entrance, the screen that is the best screen that a tablet can have on the market. If these are very small changes, may God come and see Luis.
If Apple did not want to "advertise" their Mini tablet too much, they and only they will know the reasons, but of course one of them is not that it has undergone few changes because it is precisely the opposite. Above all, and as I say, if we compare those changes with those that the iPad Mini 3 had with respect to the iPad Mini 2, which as I say was only one, the inclusion of the Touch iD and for which they asked at the time € 100 more. Quite a joke that I understand exactly how the market took it. What's more, practically all the websites recommended the purchase of the iPad 2 over the 3 because the € 100 difference for the Touch iD was not worth it since the rest was EXACTLY the same.
I myself bought a 4Gb iPad Mini 64 Wifi (I decided just after knowing precisely the news that it had inside) and I have to say that I am delighted.