Agreed.. This is the best iPad to date. The step up in RAM, does wonders, without having crashes. The speed is incredible, worth the upgrade if you can swing it.
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iPad iPad Air 2 is impressive.
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Agreed.. This is the best iPad to date. The step up in RAM, does wonders, without having crashes. The speed is incredible, worth the upgrade if you can swing it.
Man I just bought mine 2 days ago. Wifi, Gold, 64GB... I'm speechless
For my first tablet ever this is very top-notched. It's really super-thin and very light.
The display is amazing, although I was expecting to be as bright as my iPhone 6, but that doesn't bother me much.
But what really shines in this iPad is the quality of iOS and its apps+ the integration capability with iPhone. It's 10/10 for me.
For my first tablet ever this is very top-notched. It's really super-thin and very light.
The display is amazing, although I was expecting to be as bright as my iPhone 6, but that doesn't bother me much.
But what really shines in this iPad is the quality of iOS and its apps+ the integration capability with iPhone. It's 10/10 for me.
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I just got my iPad air 2 a few days ago and the screen is amazing! No distortion from my speakers. Music sounds amazing at max volumes. Only thing is when sound is played no matter quiet or loud, the back vibrates. Oh well. Still amazing.
I finally used an iPad Air 2 today and it was amazing. You can actually slide down for spotlight, start Siri, use control center on the lock screen, use control center with an open folder, and it doesn't stutter. Every one of those situations are a mess on my one year old iPad mini 2, exactly the same on my friend's air 1. Super disappointing and frustrating.
ipad air2 rocks with the Zagg Rugged Book
I just got the Zagg Rugged Book for my Air2 and it rocks. I have one on my Mini2 and love it. I have been waiting since the Air2 came out for them to make the changes for the Air2. It reduces the vibration by at least 50%. I just picked one up at the ATT store, and I get 50% off on all axcessories. I got it for $61.00 out the door.
I just got the Zagg Rugged Book for my Air2 and it rocks. I have one on my Mini2 and love it. I have been waiting since the Air2 came out for them to make the changes for the Air2. It reduces the vibration by at least 50%. I just picked one up at the ATT store, and I get 50% off on all axcessories. I got it for $61.00 out the door.
I got myself an iPad Air 2.
It has a big non-reflective retina that displays a stunning picture. With the aviator program it is fantastic to get lots of screen real estate when waypoint choice is introduced in a forthcoming firmware upgrade, , which may become even more important.
I picked a Wi Fi - Mobile 64 GB version that regulated my option and since I believed it'd be actually useful in order to obtain other info when I travel somewhere.
I'd also, as others have requested, prefer to use a Google Map instead of Apple Maps which in my region is using satellite images that are really old. Over a decade old. So perhaps that is going to be an alternative option in a future firmware upgrade.
It has a big non-reflective retina that displays a stunning picture. With the aviator program it is fantastic to get lots of screen real estate when waypoint choice is introduced in a forthcoming firmware upgrade, , which may become even more important.
I picked a Wi Fi - Mobile 64 GB version that regulated my option and since I believed it'd be actually useful in order to obtain other info when I travel somewhere.
I'd also, as others have requested, prefer to use a Google Map instead of Apple Maps which in my region is using satellite images that are really old. Over a decade old. So perhaps that is going to be an alternative option in a future firmware upgrade.
Don't worry, when you try to load iOS 10 (X?) on it, it will slow to a crawl, and there will be all sorts of features that your iPad won't support on the new OS. You will then have plenty of reasons to upgrade.
Apple knows what they are doing... they have your back.
Same as when using Safari in landscape mode and you tap the address bar (whilst currently on website, not a new tab), and the current address slides left while the keyboard slides up from the bottom. On iPad Air and iPad mini 2 this has some stutter. It's not unusable but it's noticeable. The only way to remove it is to disable transparencies which means the home screen dock looks ugly as hell. What causes this is the stupid transparent box that pops up with favourites or bookmarks (depending on your settings) which mirrors the Safari UI on Yosemite. On a new tab in iOS 8 these show as they did when you tapped the address bar on iOS 7, a blank white page with the icons of your bookmarks. Why add the useless transparent box with the icons?
Let's be honest though, this is just Apple gimping A7 devices. App performance, graphically, on both devices is identical in every top end game. Look at titles like AG Drive, Asphalt 8, etc which run identical on both the Air 1 and 2 using Metal on iOS 8 to run better looking games than ever on iOS (AG Drive needs to be seen to be believed).
If the Air can run these kind of games, then there's no reason for some stutter when a layer of blur is added to a home screen or keyboard in Safari. Can't Apple apply Metal to their own bloody OS on iOS 8 enabled device to eliminate these moments of stutter.
I run my Air in Reduce Transparenct mode because the Safari stutter just annoys me. I tried out an Air 2 in Tesco and it was as smooth on the above Safari situation as my Air 1 is with reduce transparency enabled.
However I refuse to believe the A7 chip and 1GB of RAM is incapable of handling a layer of blur when the thing can throw polygons around at 60fps in someo of the most amazing looking mobile games to date.
The thing is that every other animation is identical to the Air 2. The pinch to home screen is fluid and smooth, activating multitasking is quick and responsive, swiping apps away is smooth, swiping between open apps with gestures is smooth also. It's just places where this blur is applied, yet in iOS 7 where there was blur the iPad Air was fine. Spotlight used to show the home screen with no blur behind the keyboard and search bar on iOS 7, why change it? It's just adding resource hogging graphical nonsense for the sake of it.
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Just got mine last night. Coming from an iPad 4.
The speed difference is crazy, this thing is lightning fast, faster then my iPhone 6 and blows away the iPad 4 of course.
Tabs still reload for me though anyway. Not sure why. Apps stay on for longer but safari is not that much improved.
The speed difference is crazy, this thing is lightning fast, faster then my iPhone 6 and blows away the iPad 4 of course.
Tabs still reload for me though anyway. Not sure why. Apps stay on for longer but safari is not that much improved.
This thing is blazing fast and realized how much I missed a tablet after not having one for 4 years or so.
So much more efficient than browsing on my 6+ and the screen is absolutely stunning and it amazes me with how fast the thing is.
Makes me wish the 6+ had the 2GB of RAM too.
So much more efficient than browsing on my 6+ and the screen is absolutely stunning and it amazes me with how fast the thing is.
Makes me wish the 6+ had the 2GB of RAM too.
