A follow-up to 2012’s original Apple iPad Mini that was officially announced on October 22, 2013, with availability scheduled for late November of the same year.
The second-generation iPad Mini, the “iPad Mini 2,” is dubbed the iPad Mini with Retina Display by Apple, as it adds a 2048×1536-pixel resolution Retina Display as well as a 64-bit A7 processor to help handle the increased resolution.
The iPad Mini 2 also features iOS 7 as its mobile operating system, and pricing for it starts at $399, which is $70 higher than the starting price for the previous generation iPad Mini.