The iPad Mini 2 is going to be thicker and wider due to the implementation of a Retina Display and a larger battery

  launching iPad 3 it also meant changing the dimensions of the tablet, the product being thicker than the tablet launched before it, and this was based on the implementation of a Retina Display, but also of a larger capacity battery. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), was willing to make this compromise to give users a screen that displays great images, and the same thing he would do it including in the case iPad Mini 2. The first cases that appeared in China for the new tablet indicate that iPad Mini 2 it is going to be thicker and wider than the model now sold on the market, and some expected this.

  iPad Mini 2 it will be 7.5 mm thick, compared to the 7.2 mm of the current model, but also 134.9 mm wide, 0.2 mm more than the current model. Apart from these changes, the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he also relocated the microphone of the tablet, now it is present in the product case. Despite the changes regarding the dimensions, users should not notice any of them, they being small enough not to be mentioned by Apple.

  iPad Mini 2 it will also contain a face A7 which would come "as a package" with a fingerprint reader and touch ID, the product to be presented on October 22 together with iPad 5.