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Apple unveiled<\/a> its \u201cbiggest update ever\u201d for the iPad mini<\/a> this week, introducing a thinner, lighter design and an OLED display.<\/p>\n In a pair of interviews, Dave Pakula, Apple\u2019s vice president of Hardware Engineering, discussed the new iPad mini\u2019s design, display, and more.<\/p>\n While the new iPad mini features an OLED display, it doesn\u2019t support ProMotion. Instead, it\u2019s limited to a 60Hz refresh rate. Here\u2019s what Pakula had to say about that decision in an interview with Chris Lawley<\/a>:<\/p>\n Display experience is about more than just a single spec. One of the things that\u2019s really cool about OLED is it actually has this really fast pixel response time. So it\u2019s more than an order of magnitude faster than the pixel response time for an LCD display.<\/p>\n What that does is it makes everything really smooth. Motion blur is significantly reduced compared to LCD. When you pair that with the other things, the contrast, the brightness, and the color, this is just a killer display.<\/p>\n In addition to being lighter and thinner, the new iPad mini is also IP67-rated for water and dust resistance, a first for an iPad. One key enabler is a new Acoustic Display. Pakula explains how that technology works:<\/p>\n One of the cool things we realized as we started experimenting was that the unique size and form factor of this display actually had a resonant frequency that\u2019s in the audible range.<\/p>\n I think more importantly, it\u2019s in the range of like a traditional woofer that you\u2019d have in a speaker. What we did was we built these custom drivers that actually energize the display and emit sound directly through the enclosure, but that only really works for the mid and low frequencies.<\/p>\n For the higher frequencies, we actually designed these little custom tweeters. There\u2019s one on each end of the product, and they\u2019re actually ported out through these hidden ports between the glass and the aluminum. The result is we have this product that\u2019s water and dust resistant. I think the sound that comes from it is so surprising for a form factor of this size.<\/p>\n Pakula also sat down with Katarina Mogus for an interview<\/a>, where he discussed how the iPad mini fits into a world where iPhone Duo also exists:<\/p>\n What we love about the iPad mini is it\u2019s really the full iPad experience in the palm of your hand. That gives you access to a million+ apps in the App Store. It\u2019s got incredibly powerful creative accessories like the Apple Pencil Pro. And it\u2019s got the advanced multitasking of iPadOS 27. <\/p>\n It is really incredibly universal. And honestly, with all these updates, all of those experiences just got so much better.<\/p>\n You can watch both interviews below. The new iPad mini is available to pre-order now<\/a>, with the first orders arriving on November 6.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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