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iPad Air 2 Guide: Prices, Upgrades, Reduced Thickness, Increased Speed

by GH Staff

Although a big event aroused with the release of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, Apple decided to take a step ahead and decided to release the new iPad generation as well. In an event held in San Francisco, Tim Cook affirmed the tablet being simple and capable.

The new iPad Air 2 features a fresh exterior look as the device supports a 6.1 mm thickness body, while the previous body was 18% thicker. So far there is no tablet that has all these goodies packed in ones slim casing as the iPad Air offers. The tablet supports the Retina display technology in a 9.7 display that operates on a 2048 x 1536. In fact even the screen is covered with an anti-reflection   coating which improves the outdoors reading experience of your tablet immensely.

Now that you’ve seen the exterior, let’s show you the hardware as well. The iPad 2 Air supports an A8X processing unit with a 64-bit chip. Thanks to this the graphics and performance have improved immensely compared to the previous devices. If we look at the statistical numbers regarding performance the iPad 2 Air and the earlier version prove the new device is 180 times faster in terms of working/gaming area. With the 8MP camera the user cans hoot a 1080p video. The real hardware element that has brought the main essence pout of the images is the ABX chip. Since we are speaking about images, the iPad Air 2 can give thanks to its camera, after all it does feature an 8Mp along with a sly of Samsung effects and modes like Slow Motion, Panorama, Timelapse and others.

The other updates that come with the Apple iPad Air 2 included the Wi-Fi connection and the camera that supports the FaceTime better. The battery also supports a 20 hours on LTE as the classic password gets replaced by the TouchID technology.

Yes the eager fans will have to wait till 24th October to get this beauty the iPad Air 2 in their hands, but if the waiting is hard, the pre-order begins from 17 October.  The device is available in three colors namely: white, grey and gold. Likewise the internal storage that goes with these colors is 16, 64 and 128 GB. The price begins at $500 and goes up $100 with each variant, of course categorized with the size.

Specially Designed Apps

iPad Air 2 gives you powerful apps and makes your day to day necessaries a piece of cake like net surfing. Checking your mail, editing movies/photos, writing reports and reading books, etc. Plus you also get thousands of apps from the App Store that is specially designed for the large Retina Display. So be it gaming, travelling, photography or just to manage your finances, there will always be an app to help you.

The OS

iPad Air 2 comes with an advanced mobile OS system, the iOS 8. It allows you to start a project on one device and finish it on another device. The family sharing feature allows you to share movies, music, apps and books with up to six people. With the iCloud Drive app you can safely store any sort of document and access it from any device. In fact, be it any feature in the iOS 8, they work seamlessly with the iPad Air 2.