On 15 September Apple announced the latest addition to its
long-running iPad Air line of tablets. The company described it as
the most powerful iPad Air ever – no surprises there – and
trumpeted its larger screen, improved camera and Touch ID, A14
processor and audio upgrades.
Here’s everything you need to know about the new iPad Air for
2020, including the latest information about when the iPad Air will
go on sale, and details of the specs that have leaked.
It is now possible to buy a new iPad Air on the Apple Store as
of 16 October at 1pm – read on to find out more. And for more
information and in-depth testing, read our Jordyn woods nsfw.
- 16 October on-sale
- 23 October delivery
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alongside the Apple Watch SE and the standard iPad. Then a month
passed before the iPad Air went on sale.
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With many Apple lines, you will see the same number beside the
dollar and pound sign, as somehow Apple’s price calculation, that
takes into consideration currency conversions, sales taxes and “the
cost of doing business”, tends to come out with an identical
figure.
Apple’s iPads seem not to follow this rule and the dollars
number tends to be higher in the US than the pounds figure is in
the UK. The new Air follows this pattern. Here’s Kristin kreuk porn
in both countries:
- iPad Air 2020 (64GB, Wi-Fi): £579/$599
- iPad Air 2020 (256GB, Wi-Fi): £729/$749
- iPad Air 2020 (64GB, cellular): £709/$729
- iPad Air 2020 (256GB, cellular): £859/$879
Worth noting that these prices are considerably higher than the
equivalents for the last Air: at least £100/$100 higher in each
case. The Air 2019 started at £479/$499.
The old price meant there was less of a difference between the
price of the standard iPad and the iPad Air, making the iPad Air an
easy choice. But the bigger price gap and the better features of
the iPad make this a much more difficult decision. Here’s
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good the iPad Air is when compared to the Pro!
As expected, the Air has inherited the design that the iPad Pro
got in 2018 – one with no Home button and relatively slim bezels
around the edge. (You get a larger screen for the device size, but
it isn’t an all-screen design by any means; then again, that may
not be a bad thing given the way most of us hold our iPads and the
fingerprints that would result if there was no bezel to put our
fingers on. It also means there’s room in the top bezel for the
front-facing camera, and consequently no notch.)
It’s a really smart and modern-looking design, albeit less
modern-looking than it seemed in 2018. This is always the way when
buying any tier of a product below the top level: you have to wait
for hand-me-down features.
The interesting thing about this design, however, is the way
Apple has compromised between the approaches used in the iPad Pro
and in its Home button iPads. The new Air doesn’t get Face ID,
unexpectedly, and instead uses Touch ID (it’s the second-gen
version, too, so it should be fast and reliable). But where do you
put your finger? There’s a fingerprint sensor built into the top
button.
This is interesting because it’s something Apple has
never done before. Its highest-end iPhones, its most
expensive iPads, none of them have had fingerprint sensors anywhere
that isn’t a Home button.
In this case, we get only Touch ID, but the apparent
practicality of building Touch ID into a power button raises the
spectre of allowing users two different biometric security systems:
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offer both Face ID and Touch ID. But that’s a story for another
day.
In another Pro-emulating move, Lightning is gone, replaced by
USB-C. That’s probably good news in the long run, as it makes it
easier for more third parties to make accessories, but does mean
any Lighting kit you already own will have to go.
Last of all, note the inclusion of two new colour finishes: as
well as silver, Space Grey and Rose Gold, the 2020 Air comes in
green and blue.
Here are some photos of the new iPad Air, to give an idea of its
aesthetic elegance.
To justify that higher price tag, the new Air needs some
impressive specs. Luckily there’s plenty to talk about here.
The most obvious boost to the Air’s specs list is the larger
screen: it’s up to 10.9in, compared to 10.5in in the 2019 model.
That’s enabled by the removal of the Home button, so you don’t have
to put up with a less portable device to get that extra screen
space.
(In fact, the dimensions are a tiny bit different. The new Air
is 3mm shorter and 4.4mm wider than last year’s model. And oddly
enough, the Wi-Fi version is very slightly heavier, while
the cellular is slightly lighter: it’s 458g/460g, compared to
456g/464g last year. We don’t think you’ll notice these
differences.)
The pixel density is the same as on last year’s model, at
264ppi, but because it’s across a larger area the resolution is
higher: 2360 x 1640, up from 2224 x 1668. And there’s no ProMotion.
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The screen bump is nice, but we shouldn’t let the processor be
put in the shade. It’s an Apple proprietary chip branded as the A14
Bionic – no surprises there to anyone who can count. What is a
surprise, though, is that like ‘Touch ID in a power button’, the
Air is getting this chip generation before any other Apple
device. The iPad Pro is on the A12Z; the iPhone 11 Pro Max has
the A13. The iPhone 12 will get the A14 soon, of course, but until
October the iPad Air has the world exclusive.
The A14 has, Apple dutifully reports, 11.8 billion transistors,
a new 6-core design, 4-core graphics architecture and a 16-core
Neural Engine that’s capable of performing up to 11 trillion
operations per second. In theory, this should all mean a 40% CPU
speed bump compared to the (A12-equipped) 2019 Air, and a 30%
improvement in graphics, but we will of course put this all to the
test in real-world tests once review samples become available.
We have already got a bit of an insight into just how fast that
A14 processor is. A Geekbench 5 benchmark was noticed by
reliable Apple leaker Ice Universe.
The A14 processor in this test saw 1,583 in single-core results
and 4,198 for multi-core. The iPad Air 3, which uses the A12 Bionic
saw 1,112 for single-core and 2,832 for multi-core. This translates
to an increase of 42 percent for single-core and 48 percent for
multi-core.
So you can expect a big jump between the two generations.
It’s not only the processor that those leaked Geekbench
benchmarks gave us an insight into.
Apple hasn’t revealed how much RAM is inside the
fourth-generation iPad Air (it rarely discusses RAM in fact), but
the Geekbench benchmarks above also revealed that the iPad being
tested included 4GB RAM, compared to 3GB in its predecessor.
In comparison, there is 6GB RAM in the 2020 iPad Pro.
And there are lots of other exciting boosts and
improvements.
The new Air is compatible, for example, with the brilliant
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thanks to its magnetic attachment and wireless charging. That’s
another Pro exclusive gone by the wayside. The Air is also now
compatible with the Eva lovia mia malkova.
The camera setup can’t quite compete with the Pro’s multi-lens
arrangement, but the rear-facing camera does see a boost from 8Mp
to 12Mp and from f/2.4 to f/1.8 – that’s now the same wide-angle
camera as in the Pro, albeit not accompanied by an ultra-wide-angle
partner.
You now get Smart HDR. Video recording goes up from 1080p at
30fps to 4K at up to 60fps; slow-mo now tops out at 240fps instead
of 120fps, and there’s now continuous autofocus on video. Panorama
is increased from 43MP to 63MP.
Basically there are lots of camera improvements and we can’t
wait to try them out.
A grab-bag of upgrades from the 2019 Air:
- The display is now rated as Liquid Retina rather than just
Retina. That’s mainly a marketing term, to be honest, but we assume
this is to indicate the slightly larger size and number of onscreen
pixels. In most other respects the screen is the same as last
year.
- Audio (still based on two speakers) now gets landscape
mode.
- Live Photos now gets stabilisation.
- The new Air gets Wi?Fi 6 (adding 802.11ax), with claimed top
speeds up from 866Mbps to 1.2Gbps.
- Gigabit-class LTE increased from 28 to 30 bands.
And that’s it! Stay tuned to Macworld for a review as soon as we
can get our hands on a sample, and news on the launch date when
that emerges. If you’re interested in the other products launched
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