Nokia N1 vs iPad Mini 2 Comparison: Review of Specs and Features

By Max Bonto, Christian Post Contributor Sunday, November 23, 2014

Nokia's newest N1 joins the fray of mini-tablets as it faces an early 2015 release date. The Finnish mobile phone company brings the N1 mini-tablet in response to Microsoft's purchase of its mobile division, taking along the Lumia name with it.

On the other hand, the iPad Mini 2 still remains as one of the best tablets out in the market alongside its bigger, thin brother the iPad Air. So how well will Nokia's N1 fare against a veteran?

First, a spec run down.

The Nokia N1 has a 7.9-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with a display resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. Inside the device is an Intel Atom Z3580 chipset with a quad-core 2.3GHz processor and a PowerVR G6430. The N1 is available in a 32GB internal storage variant with 2GB of RAM. The tablet does not have microSD card support unfortunately.

Nokia's mini-tablet also has an 8-megapixel rear facing camera and a 5-megapixel front facing one. Unlike it's Lumia line however, it does not feature Carl Zeiss optics and PureView.

The iPad Mini 2 on the other hand also has the same sized touchscreen with a similar display resolution. The mini-tablet sports different hardware though, being powered by an A7 chipset with a dual-core 1.3GHz processor and a PowerVR G6430 GPU.

It comes in four internal storage options, the 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB storage variants all with 1GB of RAM. Like the Nokia N1 and the rest of the Apple devices, the iPad Mini 2 does not feature microSD card support. For the cameras, he mini-tablet only has a 5-megapixel rear facing camera and a 1.2-megapixel front facing one.

The N1 runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop, Google's latest mobile OS offering while the iPad Mini 2 runs on Apple's newest iOS 8.1.1.