Apple Launches The iPad Air 2 - Take A Look At Complete Specifications Features And More

The iPad Air and the Retina iPad Mini are official folks. And they're everything we've been telling you nigh so far. Starting the presentation with the success of the iPad, Apple tree claims that the iPad comes out on top when the tablet sales are compared to PC sales over all. All the same, iPad sales are nevertheless starting to become flat, and Apple is looking to change this fact.

As expected, Apple has gone big once over again and made the iPad Air even more thin. According to a video Apple tree displayed at the launch, the device is half a thick as a pencil. So much for theatrics. The iPad Air 2 will exist half-dozen.1 mm thick. That makes the device a full 0.8 mm thinner than the iPhone 6 and eighteen% thinner than the iPad Air. Oh and information technology'south coming in gold too.

Apple has also gone and optically bonded the LCD, glass and the bear upon sensor on the iPad Air 2. Display also gets an overhaul and volition reduce reflections by 56%. Also, looking at the Nexus 9 launch, with the Tegra K1 on board, Apple has likewise decided to up the game and launch the iPad Air 2 with the A8X on board.

Now that'due south 1 frighteningly sparse tablet.

The A8X looks pretty interesting so far. The SoC comes with iii billion transistors and is the 2d generation in Apple's 64 bit architecture. CPU performance looks to be 12X meliorate than the ane on the iPad according to Apple's slides. The principal attraction of the A8X seems to be graphics performance however. Apple says that the SoC will offer as much as 180X times the graphics performance of the iPad. And all of this will exist coming with a 10 hour battery life.

Photographic camera resolution has gotten an upgrade on the iPad Air ii as initially expected. The iSight camera on the device will now have a resolution of 8 MP. Discontinuity size and video recording remain the same at 1080 p and f/2.4. Time Lapse and Slo Mo accept also made it on board. FaceTime has also gotten an upgrade, with an option to allow 81% more calorie-free in.

Wireless connectivity volition be receiving a two.8X boost on the iPad Air 2 with 802.11AC with MIMO. Every bit expected, Touch ID has too made it on lath and with it Apple tree Pay too. The iPad Air 2 will be starting at $499 for the 16 GB Wi Fi variant. The 128 GB Wi Fi variant on the other hand will leave y'all a $699 lighter. Hither's a great looking shot taken from the iPad Air ii to make things easier for you lot.

(Thanks to TheVerge for the images)