Apple iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3: Availability and Features

Just a few moments ago, Apple officially announced the new generation of its iPad tablet, made for next year by iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. Just in the course of these last-minute Apples has officially announced the new iPad Air.

The name is certainly not a concentrate of fantasy; the choice is fall on iPad Air 2 is thinner than the iPad ever produced and also the tablet currently on the market that offers less thick.

Thanks to the optimization of the components of the display, now in direct contact with the protective glass, has been able to reach an overall thickness for the solution of only 6.1 mm.

It is almost a mystery, at this point, how it was possible to fit all the components within the chassis of the solution. Also the camera is perfectly aligned with the rest of the body, contrary to what happened with the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Within this new iPad Air, we find a processor A8X, evolution of A8 that are inside of the new iPhone.

Equipped with 64-bit technology and 3 billion transistors, the new chip is able to develop a computing power 12 times greater than the previous iPad Air and a graphics processing power 180 times greater than its predecessor.

The battery, we do not know yet the ability, should be able, as stated by Apple, to achieve 10 hours of battery life. As for the new iPhone is equipped with the the new iPad Air co-processor M8, dedicated to the management of the motion sensors inside the tablet.

The camera has a sensor in the rear 8-megapixel iSight, aperture f/2.4 and all the shooting mode and shooting video that we saw introduced with the latest release is iOS 8. Here then iPad Air will be the prim iPad able to record and time lapse video in slow-motion at a speed of 120fps, and a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels.

In the front, we have instead a new Facetime HD Camera with aperture f / 2.2 with an improved system of face recognition and burst mode and HDR also for selfie.

Inside the new iPad Air 2 are then New WiFi antennas that support the 802.11 standard MiMo, for a faster connection and stable up to almost twice as that of the iPad Air precent. It will obviously also a version with LTE over 20 types of bands and supported a speed that can reach 150 Mbps in download.

iPad Air 2 is also the first to be equipped with sensor fingerprint recognition. The sensor is inserted as the iPhone center button will return to the home, and just like the iPhone can be used to unlock the device or to make purchases on the App Store. Then do not miss a chance to use this technology combined with the new payment system that Apple Pay in the United States, will be officially launched just this Monday.

The prices of the new iPad Air 2 as always vary depending on the version chosen. In particular, the cheaper version will be the WiFi only 16 GB of memory that is offered at $499, it then goes to $599 for the 64GB version and $699 for the 128 GB.

The same memory sizes in WiFi and LTE versions will cost just $130 plus, which means $629 respectively for the 16 GB version, $729 for the 64GB and $829 for one to 128 all versions will be available in three colors: silver, space gray and gold.

On the sidelines of the presentation of the new iPad Air 2 space was given to the new iPad mini 3 which, for design and size is exactly identical to its predecessor. Even the hardware is exactly the same as its predecessor, particularly that all sponge to ask you what is the news. Here is immediately explained the mystery; The new iPad Mini 3 comes as iPad Air 2 Sensor fingerprint recognition Touch ID.

The prices of the new iPad Mini 3 as always vary depending on the version chosen. In particular, the cheaper version will be the WiFi only 16 GB of memory that is offered at $399, it then goes to $499 for the 64GB version and $599 for the 128 GB.

The same memory sizes in WiFi and LTE versions will cost just $130 plus, which means $529 respectively for the 16 GB version, $629 for the 64GB and $729 for one to 128 all versions will be available in three colors: silver, space gray and gold.