Since I found the Verizon app that lets me text, I use a basic phone for calls and my mini for everything else! Love it! Kind of a drag for me to walk with 2 devices, but works for me now. Will be getting the mini 2 though, can't pass up that retina display! Hope they don't charge too much more for it...
If Apple keeps the same pricing strategy they have for the last while, it seems the iPad Mini 2 would start at the 329 price point for the 16 GB although I've been doing a little reading and something that's intriguing me is that the 16 GB variants of the iPad's apparently won't exist anymore. Reportedly what will happen is they will use 32 GB as the base model, the 64 GB as the second tier storage and finally a 128 GB for the highest capacity.
Now I don't know how accurate or reliable this information is because Apple tends to hold their cards close and until officially announced we don't know much about what will happen with the next iteration of devices. Furthermore, suppose this is correct. This led me to think about something else. Right now the 32 GB iPad Mini is 429, so if the 16 GB model is dropped from the iPad Mini 2, would the 32 GB unit be priced at the 329 the 16 GB used to be priced at? Perhaps they'll keep it at 429 for the 32 GB but then I also thought that if they follow the same storage pricing system, a 128 GB iPad Mini 2 would be priced at 629 dollars. Which from the way I see it from a storage standpoint is both reasonable and unreasonable, but lets say they bring the 32 GB price down to the 329 mark and go from there, 529 for a 128 GB iPad Mini would be a great deal. Although if they do this with the Mini series, I can foresee this happening with the iPad because 699 is a great price for a 128 GB iPad 5th Generation for instance.
And so the waiting game begins