Michal Marek Apple has introduced its thinnest iPad yet, it's called iPad Air 2 and its thickness is only 6,1 millimeters. The gold color and the expected Touch ID are also coming to iPads for the first time. Inside the new iPad Air beats a brand new A8X processor, which is supposed to be up to 40 percent faster. The iPad Air 2 display is laminated with an anti-reflective coating, so it should reflect more than half as much.
Probably the biggest innovation of the new iPad Air is the aforementioned Touch ID sensor. This is coming to the tablet for the very first time, and thanks to the possibility of expansion in iOS 8, it is a very pleasant function. Developers in the latest operating system from Apple can use this technology in their applications. On the new iPad Air, Touch ID will also be used to confirm payments through the new Apple Pay service, which Apple has also integrated into the iPad Air 2. However, it is not yet clear whether this service will be usable for other than just online purchases.
The camera has received major improvements. In the iPad Air 2, it now has 8 megapixels, 1,12 micron pixels on the sensor, an aperture of f/2,4 and allows recording 1080p HD and video. The new iSight camera will also allow you to shoot slow-motion, capture panoramas, take photos using batch photography and take time-lapse videos. In addition, the front camera has also been improved, which now has an aperture of f/2,2.
The iPad Air 2 is powered by the new A8X processor, which is a slightly more powerful modification of the processor used in the new iPhone 6. This is a chip with 64-bit architecture, and Apple declared in the presentation that it is 40% faster than the A7 processor in the iPad Air. The new iPad Air 2 is also supposed to achieve 180 times higher graphics performance than the 1st generation iPad. Also new in this apple tablet is the M8 motion coprocessor, which also made its way to the iPad from the iPhone.
The new iPad Air should maintain 10 hours of battery life despite its thin profile. However, a casualty of the slimmer body is the mute/display rotation lock button. New is the support of the newer Wi-Fi format 802.11ac. The iPad Air 2 comes with iOS 8.1, the operating system that will be available for the general public to download from Monday, October 20. The iOS update will bring the public beta version of iCloud Photo Library, return to the Camera Roll system, and also bring fixes for bugs that are still relatively abundant in the system.
iPad Air 2 in the 16GB Wi-Fi version will start with a price tag of 13 crowns. The middle 490GB variant has been removed from the company's portfolio, just like with iPhones, and the next one in the offer is a 32GB model for 64 crowns and a 16GB model for 190 crowns. Pre-orders start already tomorrow, and the new iPad Airs should arrive to the first customers next week.
I think I will buy it. After all, just an iPad 3 is no longer enough. But I don't understand the pursuit of the smallest possible thickness.
I totally agree. And also with iPhones.. They should have made a rougher and more covered cock than this protruding wart. It doesn't change anything, but I will buy the iPhone when it comes to us + the packaging of course :-D
I missed the Keynote so I'm not in the picture. How is the iPad mini doing? Also thinner with touch ID and faster?
should be the same as the Air 2, but smaller. Someone said that he took a worse photo.
thanks for the info :)
oh sorry, I was going from the wrong article on mobilmania (now fixed), it looks like the mini 3 is almost the same as last year, just has a new touchID :O
I absolutely don't understand why people have a camera :) I have an air and I haven't taken a single photo with it. So sometimes I take a picture of a piece of paper on my iPhone...
the quality is bad and there is no need to talk about practicality when taking pictures..
I'm also surprised, but I've already seen hundreds of people taking photos with iPads while traveling... a relatively popular thing abroad (especially in the USA).
Now I look back at the Keynote and there was hardly a word about the iPad mini. There was no reason. It didn't get anything new except Touch ID :-( I'm disappointed
Plus a new color offer.
And one last thing. Following the pattern of the iPh6/6+, they launched a 32GB version.
Otherwise, the iPad mini with Retina display introduced last year (newly labeled iPad mini 2 - Why?) is just a regular iPad mini 3.
Well, I have to say that it's great for the price, but I was hoping for a slightly more professional tablet. Maybe with a stylus. A friend now has a Surface 3. It's by no means a perfect tablet, but it has its advantages in some ways. For me, probably mainly in the fact that I could program on it and work with Photoshop.
I am excited about today's keynote. Too bad the new Apple TV wasn't introduced. The iPad Air 2 looks great. It's been too long - but we've made it. http://jirihubik.cz/novinky/je-to-prilis-dlouho-ale-dockali-jsme-se/
what exactly are you excited about?
Craig was brilliant. His quick recap of the Apple ecosystem kind of opened my eyes to the fact that it just really works...
The iPad is once again the best tablet in the world...
The thinnest tablet in the world with an amazing design, a beautiful display, super performance, the best-performing Touch ID fingerprint sensor, super battery life and an eight-megapixel camera.
Well, what more could you want…
What more could you wish for? For example, what the Surface 3 Pro can do: writing with a stylus that looks like a pencil, a full-fledged operating system that erases the differences between a laptop and a tablet in the sense of multitasking... The Surface seems like a terrible piece of crap to me, I usually get pimples from the Woken, but in contrast from Apple does not step on the spot. After all, there is no new component in that iPad. I think they will end up copying the Surface anyway in the form of a 12-inch MacBook Air with retina. Where Apple has an edge is the ecosystem.
I have been using such a stylus on my iPad for some time. But it's not a feature of that tablet.
Jakub, you are completely missing the point of this device. The tablet does not exactly erase the differences between these devices, because the tablet, as Apple understands it, is mainly for consuming content, not for creating it (only to a certain extent - simple video editing, etc.) If you want the tablet to replace a full-fledged laptop or desktop PC , so look for another manufacturer. And when MacBook Air comes out with Retina and those twelve inches, it will be the most mobile laptop in the world, which it is and always has been. Microsoft thinks like you, and that's also the reason why they've been burning in the ass for a long time.
Of course, I understand this, but we have moved to a completely different place...
I just wanted to say that I'm happy with the improvements Apple has made, nothing more. I know that Apple considers a computer and a tablet as two completely different devices, and probably doesn't want to change it, and I agree with the MacBook Air.
judging by the ads for the ipad air, apple doesn't understand tablets just for consuming content, or so it seems to me..