what is the main feature update of iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 and Prices

 

Tim cook present iPad Air 2

One of Apple's iPad series Tablet PC as the most important product line, launch new products every year. On the morning of the Apple press conference, as expected, officially released a whole new generation of Apple iPad products, including iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, new more slim, lightweight yet powerful.



 October 17 morning news, Apple held a new conference at the Town Hall auditorium Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Campus. One of Apple's iPad series Tablet PC as the most important product line, launch new products every year. In this conference, as expected, Apple officially released a whole new generation of iPad products, including iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, new more slim, lightweight yet powerful.


 There is no doubt that the next generation iPad Air is the protagonist of this conference, iPad Air 2 is still the regular upgrade, the added change most of us have seen in the iPhone, such as the integration Touch ID fingerprint reader, but new uses and more thinner, lighter new design, resulting in a more powerful processing capability and the corresponding software functions better. For a new generation of iPad mini expect a substantial upgrade of the user may be slightly disappointed, because the third-generation iPad mini most attractive feature is the introduction of the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, while others have not changed much.

 Cook at the press conference said, iPad is a charming products to reach 100% customer satisfaction, four years of global sales reached 225 million units, exceeding the sales of the PC, but also completely changed the way people live, the current has more than 675,000 iPad applications.

Thinner design, improved Retina screen and join Touch ID

 iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 overall styling is not much difference with the previous generation of products. Which is also a new generation of iPad Air Retina screen size 9.7 inches, maintaining 2048x1536 pixel resolution, the difference is the first time using the full-screen bonding technology, so that the body becomes stunning slim lightweight, thickness Only 6.1mm, thin 18%, called the world's thinnest tablet, and in order to provide better visual perception, but also adding a special anti-glare coating, reducing the reflectance of 56%.

The new iPad air slim

 Because thinner body's sake, the new generation of Apple iPad Air canceled the "mute / screen rotation" key to open the bottom of the fuselage Lightning speaker holes on both sides of the interface has also been redesigned, from double to single-row, hole diameter large, thus reducing the thickness of the adapter body design. The iPad mini 3 will remain "silent / screen rotation" button.

 In addition, the new generation of iPad Air and iPad mini 3 button design also draws iPhone 6 design, button material to the metal, and the body with a more coordinated. The biggest change in appearance as well as the Home key, two new iPad series products have the Touch ID function, becoming the first integrated fingerprint sensor iPad products. Touch ID to ensure that new iPad safer buying support in the App Store and Apple Pay payment service, online shopping easier.


 Upgrade the processor and the iSight camera

 iPad Air 2 will be powered by Apple's new 64 A8X processors, according to the difference between the previous and the A6X A6, A8X running speed should be higher than the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus the A8 chip, once again raise its overall performance, CPU speed upgrade 40%, GPU performance 2.5 times faster than before, more conducive to run more software and high-quality game, whether it is start the application, edit photos or play smooth graphics computing-intensive games, you've done better than ever faster if compared with the first generation iPad was raised by 180 times the graphics performance, while providing up to 10 hours of battery life.

 iPad Air 2 is also equipped with M8 motion coprocessor can accelerometer, gyroscope and compass to collect data from and share A8X chip work, thus greatly improving energy efficiency, in addition, iPad Air 2 supports 802.11ac wifi 866Mbps speeds. 

iPad Air 2 improved camera performance, the main camera iSight back from 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 pixels pixels, f2.4 aperture lens, 1080p video recording, support for "Burst Mode" burst mode, "Timelapse" time-lapse photography and " Slo-mo "slow-motion shooting, FaceTime HD front camera is level, but uses a new sensor, f2.2 aperture lens, the amount of light increase 81%, improved face detection function, support for self-timer shooting mode, take a single HDR pictures and 720p HD video calls.

 iPad mini 3 are still equipped A7 chip, or 5 million pixel camera.


 Gold version

Released last year iPhone 5s Gold version was first introduced, leading a new wave of shopping frenzy, but iPad Air released earlier failed to achieve. However, the new iPad Air released this year 2 and iPad mini 3 in addition to retain the silver and gray version of deep space can be selected, but also provides a golden version.

Pricing and release date

The new iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 as canceled as iPhone 6 32GB capacity version, keep 16GB version and 64GB version and offers 128GB, two new iPad will be October 17 began offering scheduled services on sale next week.

 Wi-Fi version of the iPad Air 16GB model 2 suggested retail price of 3588 yuan, 64GB model for 4,288 yuan, 128GB model is 4988 yuan; Wi-Fi + 4G Cellular version of the 16GB model for a suggested retail price at $ 629, 64GB model is $ 729, 128GB model for $ 829.

Wi-Fi version of the iPad mini 16GB model 3 suggested retail price of 2888 yuan, 64GB model for 3,588 yuan, 128GB model is 4288 yuan; Wi-Fi + 4G Cellular version of the 16GB model for a suggested retail price at $ 529, 64GB model is $ 629, 128GB model for $ 729.