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iPad mini 6th Generation (2021) deep dive on all the new features!

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Purple. Pink. Starlight. Space Gray. New design. Modern design. Air design. Smaller bezels. Bigger screen. 8.3-inch screen. Top Mounted Touch ID. Top Mounted volume buttons. Side-mounted Apple Pencil 2. No smart connector. No magic keyboard. No thunderbolt. But, USB-C. And landscape stereo. Wi-Fi 6. 5G. But only Sub-6 5G. A15 Bionic. 5-core GPU. Ultra-wide selfie cam. With center stage. Wide rear cam. With TrueTone flash. Same 10 hours of battery life. 64 and 256GB of storage. And $499 starting price.

So, should you upgrade?

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iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro deep dive on all the new features!

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Pink. Blue. Midnight. Starlight. Red. 20% smaller notch. 28% brighter display. Bigger Wide Angle. Sensor-Shift wide angle. Faster Ultra Wide. Smart HDR4. With Styles. 1080p/30 Cinematic video. Rack focus video. Editable in post! Up to 4K60 Dolby Vision. On all cameras. A15 Bionic. 5G! But no Wi-Fi 6E! Or USB-C! Longer battery life. On all iPhones.

But wait, there’s Pro! 

Graphite. Gold. Silver. Sierra Blue. 25% brighter. Up to 120Hz ProMotion Display. Done right. But no 1Hz always-on in sight! Biggest Wide Angle. 2.2x the light. 77mm Telephoto. 3x optical zoom. But no periscope or massive megapixel zoom. Macro photography. Macro video. With slo-mo! Ultra-Wide Focus Pixels. ProRes 4K30. Coming soon. 5-core GPU. Up to 1TB.

So, should you upgrade?

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New, even more retro-future design. Return of the glass sammich. Titanium band. Camera un-bumped. Punch-hole Face ID. And, yeah, Lightning port. Lightning. Freaking. Port. It’s the iPhone 14. Not 13. 14. I hear you. I feel you! But hold on!

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iPhone 13 Event Invitation means... what?!

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The invitations are out. The website is up. The YouTube stream is prepped. The Ted Lasso biscuits are most assuredly baked. Apple's September 14, 2021 Event is a go!

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For the next few weeks, the vast, vast majority of iPhone 13 buying advice will be strangely fixated on whether or not it’s a compelling upgrade from… the iPhone 12. And spoiler alert — it’s not. It never is. Not year over year. Not for any iPhone. Almost. And no one expects it to be. Not even Apple.

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We’re being lied to. Tricked. Deceived. Manipulated. Bamboozled! Yes, pretty much every time we head into Apple Event season, or approach an Apple Earnings reports, we get hit with a hail storm of hot leaks about the iPhone or iPad or Apple Watch — or whatever — is doomed, of a shortage in some critical component, a delay in some high profile feature, or of some problem in the supply chain or sales that’s going to result in Apple lowering orders or making way less money than predicted. And I’m not even talking about on Twitter or YouTube. I’m talking about everything from industry rags to… national papers of record. Sometimes those reports are authentic and accurate, but other times they are complete and utter bull SHIRT, as the Good Place would have me say. So, why?

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With the iPhone 13 event maybe only 2 weeks away, and the launch just 10 days after that, the rumors are coming in hotter, heavier, and wilder than ever. Including this one from just last night — that the iPhone 13 could be a full-on satellite phone, able to make calls and send texts, even if you’re not on a cellular network. Which sounds just way, way too good to be true, right? Right?

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Do you need to micro-manage your iPhone charging? Like never let it go below 40% or above 80%? And, spoiler alert, in a word, no. In two words, hell no. No, you don’t. Nobody does. Not on any modern iPhone. Not on the upcoming iPhone 13 or iPhone 12s. Not on any of them. Nobody has time for that!

And I’m going to explain to you why, and I mean exactly, precisely why. Because I got you.

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Finally, the iPhone 13 Pro is widely, really, truly expected to be getting a 120Hz refresh rate display this fall — basically in just a couple or few weeks — that’s after failing both last year and the year before. So, what took so damn long, and what’s going to make this version just 120% more eye-popping than anything we’ve ever seen before? 

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Apple just fixed Mobile Safari in the latest iOS 15 betas. Not in 6 years like the modular Mac Pro. Not in 3 years like the Butterfly keyboard. But in 2 months. They took in community feedback. They took it seriously. And they took action. Fast. Like speed-force fast. So, what else could Apple fix and fast? Child Safety, Game Streaming, Advertising? Well…

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