Ipads still and probably always will, have the column feature. That is the point of the larger screen. That is also why I personally do not want one. When I was teaching, working with clients who had iPads, the columns gave them the most difficulty. Even if you lock the orientation in portrait, there are still times where you have to deal with the screen being in two columns. But, that is also the strength of the iPad, in that you get a better sense of how screens are realy arranged especially on the web. With the mini, having a smaart keyboard folio case is possible, but you end up with a pretty small keyboard that is not in standard layout. You could buy a larger iPhone, like the iPhone 11 pro, or max, and just not have a SIM card and use it as an iPod type device. You would get good battery life, etc. Good luck,
Richard "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt www.turner42.com On Apr 25, 2021, at 9:03 PM, Simon A Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: Hi Terri, I'm not sure what you mean by columns but I don't think of iPads being in column formats As for an iPad, Yeah sure if you want to have another device that you may not really need. Have you thought about just using your phone to do what you need to? You can get some nice little portable keyboards for the iPhone which might be helpful to you. As for iPads and keyboard, I found it more difficult to find a Bluetooth folio keyboard for my ipad mini 5 than it would have been for the iPad Have a look at the price of the devices first and compare a standard iPad or iPad Air 4 To the price of an ipad mini 5 Note also the ipads now have the ability to take / use smart folio keyboards from apple, So a specially built keyboard for the ipads Which apple don't make for the minis, My personal thought is that this is an absolute bummer So check things out before you buy as you can use your phone for everything you can do on the ipad. -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Monday, 26 April 2021 7:28 am To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Considering purchasing an iPad Hello everyone, I am considering purchasing an iPad. I am trying to decide it is really what I want to do. I had an iPad Mini, several years ago. 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