Amazon slashes $140 off ipad 11 with 5g in a flash sale that ends tonight
Amazon just fired a last-minute lightning round that knocks the 11th-gen iPad with built-in 5G down to $359—$140 under Apple's sticker and the steepest drop since launch.
Why the cellular model now costs less than wi-fi-only
Look at the numbers: the Wi-Fi-only flavor is stuck at $299 after a timid $50 trim, leaving a mere $60 gap. For that extra slice you get a Qualcomm X65 modem that chews through both sub-6 and mmWave 5G, turning coffee-shop Zoom bombs into buttery 4K streams. Apple still lists the cellular unit at $499; Amazon's algorithm clearly misread the calendar and fired the discount cannon three hours before the Spring Sale curtain falls.
The guts haven't changed—A16 Bionic lifted straight from the iPhone 14 Pro, 4 GB of unified memory, and a 28.6-watt-hour cell that survives a trans-Atlantic flight with juice left for Spotify on the Lyft home. The 11-inch Liquid Retina panel remains 60 Hz, but the 2360 × 1640 pixel matrix still out-resolves every OLED tablet south of $700, and the laminated glass keeps parallax at bay when you're sketching with a third-party Pencil clone.
What you lose and what you keep
No Face ID, no 120 Hz, no stage-light speakers. You keep Touch ID in the sleep/wake button—faster than Face ID in a mask—and you keep the promise of iPadOS updates through 2029, something no Galaxy Tab can write home about. The single USB-C port tops out at 10 Gbps, yet it drives a 6K Pro Display XDR if you feel like turning your kitchen table into a Final Cut studio.
Samsung's freshly discounted Galaxy Tab S10 FE clings to $419 with half the graphics horsepower and no cellular radio. The S-Pen is bundled, sure, but the Exynos 1580 scores 850 on Geekbench multi-core while the A16 cruises past 1,400 without breathing hard.
The clock is the real villain
Amazon's timer says