Andrew Cunningham
Apple’s latest iPad mini was launched to most of the people on Friday, and over the weekend, customers started to complain a couple of delicate scrolling drawback when utilizing the pill in portrait mode (MacRumors has a good round-up post). The pill seems to refresh the left and proper halves of its display screen at barely completely different charges, making a subtle-but-noticeable “jelly scroll” impact. The Verge’s Dieter Bohn has captured slow-motion video that demonstrates the issue.
The difficulty is adequately subtle that we did not discover it when testing the mini for our review, however our overview unit does certainly seem to endure from the identical drawback. It is essentially the most noticeable when scrolling comparatively slowly up and down a webpage or doc—the left facet of the display screen appears to path the proper facet by simply sufficient that paragraphs of textual content seem rubbery and wobbly to an attentive eye.
In our testing, the issue does seem to have an effect on the display screen in panorama mode, the place the left and proper halves of the display screen turn out to be the highest and backside halves of the display screen. However horizontal scrolling is way much less frequent in most apps than vertical scrolling, making the impact much less apparent. Some customers have reported not having the ability to discover the issue in panorama mode in any respect.
It is not clear whether or not this drawback is being brought on by the iPad mini’s {hardware}, or if it is one thing that Apple can repair with a software program replace. We have requested the corporate for remark and can replace this put up if we obtain a response.
