{"id":20523,"date":"2014-06-23T07:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=20523"},"modified":"2018-12-23T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T06:24:59","slug":"ipad-mini-retina-and-old-flower-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/06\/23\/ipad-mini-retina-and-old-flower-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad Mini Retina and Old Flower Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago I picked up the Google Nexus 7, that very compact Android tablet designed by Google. The tablet is still very much alive &#8211; to\/fro from home and work every day, and inside the side pockets of my berms over the weekends. Something happened though that I didn&#8217;t anticipate when I bought the Nexus 6 months ago &#8211; specifically, that I&#8217;d start developing Old Flower Eyes (short-formed to OFE for this post) earlier this year. For our Ang Mo buddy, Old Flower Eyes is a literal translation of a Chinese phrase that describes Presbyopia. The funniest thing is that I only realized I was gradually developing OFE in February this year, though the farsightedness started around the end of last year already.<\/p>\n<p>As for what to do with it; the optician I went to to consult if I needed a pair of progressive glasses shared &#8211; with a chuckle &#8211; that a pair of such glasses will nicely solve the reading difficulties I&#8217;ve got, but I shouldn&#8217;t get them yet &#8211; because my eye-sight has yet to worsen to the point it won&#8217;t get worse. Gaaahh.<\/p>\n<p>in the mean time, the Google Nexus 7 and its compact screen was making it harder to read things now. Oh, I had a custom ROM installed on it that allowed for a generous re-sizing on-screen fonts, but it wasn&#8217;t fool-proof, and many a time, the font had to get so big, that a simple web page with any length of text would mean a lot of scrolling just to get to the end of it. I&#8217;d initially intended to pick up the third generation iPad mini at the end of this year to replace the Nexus 7 then, but the worsening eyesight basically brought forward that purchase, and I settled for an iPad Retina Mini LTE; the second generation model in its series.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20514\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog-mini-tablets.jpg\" alt=\"The Google Nexus 7 and iPad Mini Retina, both from 2013's line-up.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog-mini-tablets.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog-mini-tablets-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog-mini-tablets-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Google Nexus 7 and iPad Mini Retina, both from 2013&#8217;s line-up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The new iPad still fits nicely into the side-pockets for most of my berms, though not into the pockets any longer &#8211; not quite like the Nexus 7 which could fit easily, and even the jeans backpockets. The battery runs for quite a bit longer than the Nexus too for my usage pattern, though iOS 7 still feels constricted in how far I can customize the look and feel of the tablet, especially coming out from the Android OS. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how the iOS 8 fares, though judging from the many preview articles about it now, it&#8217;ll still be some ways off from the sheer customization possible only on Android.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago I picked up the Google Nexus 7, that very compact Android tablet designed by Google. The tablet is still very much alive &#8211; to\/fro from home and work every day, and inside the side pockets of my<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2014\/06\/23\/ipad-mini-retina-and-old-flower-eyes\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  iPad Mini Retina and Old Flower Eyes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[650],"class_list":["post-20523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toys-technology","tag-tablet","wpcat-16-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/blog-mini-tablets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}