Amazon slashes 28% off ipad 11 with 5g in stealth sale
Amazon just yanked $140
off the 128 GB cellular iPad 11, pushing the price to $359—the lowest tag since launch and a figure that turns the mid-tier tablet into a budget assassin.
The catch: the timer is already blinking
Deal pages refreshed at 03:14 EST show the discount tagged “limited time,” inventory counters dropping every refresh, and no promise it survives the hour. Translation: if you hesitate, you pay retail tomorrow.
Inside the blue aluminum slab is Apple’s A16 Bionic, the same SoC that powered the iPhone 14 Pro. Geekbench multi-core: 6,345. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S10 FE with the Exynos 1580? 4,100. Apple silicon still punches two weight classes above Android in this bracket, and the 60 Hz Liquid Retina panel keeps color accuracy inside 1.8 ΔE—fine for Netflix binges, overkill for PDFs.
5G radios are unlocked, so the tablet hops on every U.S. carrier without the usual contract ransoms. Add a prepaid eSIM and you have a 10-hour road-warrior display for less than most Chromebooks.
Competitors? Lenovo’s Tab P11 Gen 3 costs $299 but ships with a Snapdragon 680 that wheezes on Android 14. The baseline Wi-Fi iPad 11 sits at $349—only $60 cheaper than today’s cellular model. The math is brutal: for the cost of a dinner, you gain LTE/5G and resale value that Android slabs hemorrhage the moment the box is open.
Downsides survive. Touch ID still lives on the top button—no Face ID, no 120 Hz ProMotion, no Stage Manager externals. Yet for students, field techs, or anyone who just wants a screen that will see iPadOS updates through 2029, those omissions feel academic.
Stock trackers logged 1,847 units across all colors at 04:00 EST; forty minutes later the blue SKU alone bled to 312. Amazon’s algorithm auto-kills the coupon once the last pallet tags “ships in 1–2 weeks.”
The retail giant’s spring event has been a snooze—except for this blade of a deal that proves Apple hardware can still crash the bargain bin when Bezos’ servers blink. Grab it, or spend next month explaining to your future self why you paid full freight for the same silicon.