The new iPad mini's battery capacity is no longer a mystery

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Apple unveiled the iPad mini (2026) on Monday with an OLED screen and the A20 Pro chipset, and while it told us the battery is rated at 18.9Wh, it didn't give its capacity in mAh, in typical Apple fashion. Today, that's finally been revealed thanks to the tablet's listing in the EU's EPREL database.According to the listing for model number A3596, the new iPad mini has a rated battery capacity of 4,900 mAh. That's a bit smaller than the 5,078 mAh (19.3Wh) cell in the iPad mini (2024), which isn't exactly surprising given that the new model is almost 1mm thinner and close to 40g...