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First Hands-On Impressions of New iPad Air 2: Ultra-Thin, Improved Display, Better Camera
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How is it form over function when weight is one of the major selling point for a tablet? Seriously, I'm tired of this senseless rant.
They had to choose choose between boosting performance, diminishing weight, and boosting battery life and seeming performance and weight won.
Why? Because for most people, the tablet has a good enough battery life yet they'd love it to be lighter and more powerful. That's it; function is what it is all about.
You do realize that this thing is massively faster than last year while being smaller and lighter and that since it is clocked way lower than competing tablets, undoubtably doesn't throttle quickly either. It is a major improvement.
As a bonus you have a much better screen. a much better camera, a better wireless, free top notch productivity apps, better integration with other apple devices, and a more secure platform (touch ID).
Apple totally neglected the iPad mini form factor. The new one has no A8 processor, no 8 mpx camera, is not thinner, not lighter. I bet it even has the same old screen. They added only Touch ID and gold color.
Most underwhelming iPad mini update ever.
I agree, but they clearly did that on purpose. I think the larger iPhones negates the need for a mini for most people and it makes sense for Apple to focus on the Air and even larger iPads and evolve them into true productivity devices.
I have a feeling Apple has big things in store for iPad and we'll be seeing that play out within the next couple of years.
It's surprising how many people just don't get it. The masses would take a paper thin iPad that weighs a couple of ounces that gets a reasonable 7 hours of battery life over a 1lb tablet that's 8mm thick and gets 15 hours of battery life.
Battery life on iPad is not the problem. The weight, however, can still be vastly improved, even with the significant strides they've made with the Air.
Samsung Electronics has fabs, and fabs are costly and will be even more costly in the future in both running and R&D. Apple is fabless.
It can't be heavy and thick, it's called the Air because it's as light as Air according to Apple, although mine feels like a brick at times.I'm doing reasonably well with my iPad Air except it's heavy and thick. I'm not sure why Apple didn't go further in thinning down this new one.
If only it was the thickness of a credit card and weighed in under 4oz. I could get enthused about it.
At a conference yesterday my phone died. I needed a pic of the award ceremony going on and used my iPad mini. First time I've taken a picture with it in over a year (like you, I've never used the rear camer on my iPad 2). The photo was fine, I guess, but I felt like an idiot and the whole process was silly. It's just not the way to take a picture.
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I thought that's what 'bend gate' was all about
It's been too long waiting on real multitasking. The new mail feature (swipe down your draft message to browse others) just makes the overall lack more aggravating.
User profiles would be such a bonus. I'm not sure what the holdup is here.
But...these are software features. And though I agree that the appeal of apple products is the marriage of soft and hardware, I thought OP was more about the hardware
Yes it's been too long. Being able to use apps side by side would send productivity through the roof. Having to pull away from what you're working on to type a couple of words in a reply completely derails one's focus. Given that it's taken this long, I doubt Apple will implement side by side apps until Android comes out with an implementation that starts taking away customers as was the case with phone sizes. The other possibility for rolling out that feature would have to be if they release a 13 inch iPad, which I don't see happening anytime soon.
Yeah I seriously charge my iPad about once a week at best. I don't need extra battery life on the iPad.
2gb ram
Same thing was confidently mentioned in Wired. But without a teardown confirmation, everyone could be quoting the same rumor.
Same thing was confidently mentioned in Wired. But without a teardown confirmation, everyone could be quoting the same rumor.
It's such an inefficient system right now.
I think it would also benefit from an overhaul of how iOS handles copy and paste. A true side by side multitasking incorporating some kind of drag and drop cut/paste feature would be so welcome.