iPad Air is here
Apple officially unveiled its refreshed line of iPads at an event in San Francisco, California on Tuesday, 22 October 2013.
The next iPad (technically the iPad 5) will be named the iPad Air.
Confirming many of the rumours from the “leaks” that have emerged in the past few weeks, the iPad Air has a different physical design from its predecessors, resembling a large iPad Mini.
Senior vice-president of worldwide marketing at Apple, Phil Schiller, said that in addition to a smaller bezel, the new iPad Air is much thinner at 7.5mm thick, and lighter at 1 pound.
“That makes it the lightest full-size tablet in the world,” Schiller said.
Inside, the iPad Air has an A7 chip, which Schilller said delivers twice the CPU and graphics performance. It also has an M7 motion controller, Schiller said.
Similar to the new iPhone 5s and 5c, Apple also announced expanded support for Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks.
Philip W. Schiller, Senior Vice President of worldwide marketing at Apple Inc,
introduces the new iPads during an Apple event in San Francisco, California October 22, 2013.
The iPad Air is set to go on sale from 1 November in a host of countries (but not South Africa).
Pricing for the new iPad Air is the same as the launch prices of the iPads that came before it, and will replace the current “iPad with Retina display” (aka iPad 4), Schiller said:
- 16GB with Wi-Fi: $499
- 16GB with Wi-Fi + Cellular: $629
The iPad 2 will remain available from $399.
iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina
iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2 leaked photos (image credit: Sonny Dickson)
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