Yeah, they may tell users to turn 3D Touch off when using the pencil....it may be the only option but I have no idea how they can figure out how to use a digitizer screen and 3D Touch at same time...must be complicated....
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iPad iPad Air 3: 4K, thinner, 3GB RAM?
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Yeah, they may tell users to turn 3D Touch off when using the pencil....it may be the only option but I have no idea how they can figure out how to use a digitizer screen and 3D Touch at same time...must be complicated....
The air2 went from 469g to 437g... 0.96 lbs.
Let's say the Air3 weighs 400g (0.88 lbs)...You would give up another hour of battery life for that?! C'mon, are you serious?
If Apple wants to get more iPad 2, 3, and 4 users to upgrade their iPads, do you really think that is going to convince them to pull the trigger?
Yes. I want my iPad thin, light, easy to hold. It never leaves the house so the current battery life is great. I just pop it on the charger at night.
I think there is such a thing as 'too thin and light' for handheld devices. It gets too the point where you almost feel like you're holding onto a piece of paper, or you grip it so lightly that it's easy to lose control of it.
I'd rather see them keep the existing weight and add an hour or two of battery life to the Air 3. I'd even be happier if they increased the thickness slightly and gave me 6 more hours of battery life.
If you really want light, get an iPad Mini.
Man, if the Air3 had 15 hrs of battery life, I would be in heaven. I would run to order it.
It's sad that Apple went backwards on the battery life when they went from the Air1 to the Air2. :-(
Now they say iPad air 3 no 3D touch because of production problem, So I thing we going to see pencil it will offered for students, I really don't care on the 3D touch have the iPhone S plus and don't use that feature.
I think the thickness/thinness, however you want to say it is just right with the Air2. I don't see a need to make it any thinner. The better processor and an increase in RAM would be nice to see. Ditching the 16GB entry point and moving it to 32GB would be awesome IMHO.
Here is what I would want to get me to upgrade from my Air 2...
iPad Pro features (keyboard/Apple Pen, etc.)
3D Touch.
Chance of that happening? Probably zero.
I don't want it thinner or lighter, I want better resolution, battery life, and Apple Pen support.
Otherwise I am quite happy my Air 2.
And it is also about time to do away with the $129 cellular tax ($50 is more then fair) and 16GB models. Please, Apple, make this the first announcement without the dreaded 1 and 6 in it.
Thanks,
iPad Pro features (keyboard/Apple Pen, etc.)
3D Touch.
Chance of that happening? Probably zero.
I don't want it thinner or lighter, I want better resolution, battery life, and Apple Pen support.
Otherwise I am quite happy my Air 2.
And it is also about time to do away with the $129 cellular tax ($50 is more then fair) and 16GB models. Please, Apple, make this the first announcement without the dreaded 1 and 6 in it.
Thanks,
I want more ram, maybe for next gen they can make 4gb standard, lighter even at the cost of some battery, and of course a beefier cpu/gpu 3d touch and pencil support would be nice.
I like to do alot of reading on it and the mini screen is to small for certain things the Air screen is perfect for magazines. The resolution never bothered me. Everything still looks awesome. I would personally hope they move to amoled
And yes...16gb is a joke. They need to make 32gb the starting point already. Alot of people will still get 64gb if thats what covers their needs. And the LTE model price hikes is alot! I dont kno wmuch about that but does it REALLY cost so much to license/make LTE chips?
I like to do alot of reading on it and the mini screen is to small for certain things the Air screen is perfect for magazines. The resolution never bothered me. Everything still looks awesome. I would personally hope they move to amoled
And yes...16gb is a joke. They need to make 32gb the starting point already. Alot of people will still get 64gb if thats what covers their needs. And the LTE model price hikes is alot! I dont kno wmuch about that but does it REALLY cost so much to license/make LTE chips?
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My wishlist for Air 3 is
- Thinner
- Lighter
- Better contrast ratio
- Better refresh rate (scrolling through text hurts my eyes, needs to be silky smooth)
- Stereo speakers top and bottom
- USB 3
- Battery life back up to Air 1 (or better)
- Smudgeless screen
That leaves 4K, 3D Touch, Pencil support, 3GB RAM and whatever is new at the time for the Air 4.
- Thinner
- Lighter
- Better contrast ratio
- Better refresh rate (scrolling through text hurts my eyes, needs to be silky smooth)
- Stereo speakers top and bottom
- USB 3
- Battery life back up to Air 1 (or better)
- Smudgeless screen
That leaves 4K, 3D Touch, Pencil support, 3GB RAM and whatever is new at the time for the Air 4.
Could say that iPad Air 2 is basically iPad Air 1 then as the differences were of a similar calibre.
don't be very surprised if Apple keeps the 16gb entry model another year. there's very little incentive for them to bump it to 32gb as they are happy to charge customers another $100 instead.
I'm shocked that anyone is shocked by the 4K rumor. The 9.7 inch iPad has had the same 264 ppi resolution for 3 1/2 years--an eternity in the tech world. You have to periodically upgrade specs, it's how the game is played to induce people to buy the new one. Whether it has practical benefits is almost beside the point. Apple is a marketing company and higher resolution is a selling point--whether the benefits are real of merely perceived.
4k on a tablet that sells for only $499?
if 4k is to come to the ipad, i would think the iPP would get it first.
It may be hard to believe, but that's not how Apple works. Despite people thinking that Apple is a "marketing" company, they never push specs if they feel it is not needed. If specs do not make the user experience significantly better, then what is the point?
If you really want to talk about whether "higher resolution is a selling point", you can look at Samsung and various other Android manufacturers, especially Sony who have been pushing higher resolution like crazy. Did anyone really need it? Is there any real appreciable increase in visual quality moving from 1080p to 1440p? The Xperia Z5 Premium sports a 4K display in smartphone.
Seriously, if anything Apple is underutilizing the potential to produce products with higher specs so that they can produce all kinds of marketing about it.
Having said that, I don't think the iPad Air v3 needs a 4K display. Moving it to the current iPad Pro's resolution is sufficient - 2732 x 2048 maintaining a 4:3 ratio and increasing the PPI from 264 to 352.
What I'd really like to see is the iPad Pro move to "4K", which would be around 4096 x 3072 or 3840 x 2880. But knowing Apple, they won't do it until battery life and processing speed aren't compromised i.e. User Experience.
I agree. Diminishing returns comes to mind as resolution increases on such a small screen. Hell, they've shown that people have a hard time appreciating 4K on a 50 inch TV set from normal viewing distances. Why do it on a ten inch tablet? Those resources are better used elsewhere on the tablet, IMO.
Good call too on the user experience. Battery life and overall speed are things that people feel and deal with on a daily basis. I'd also argue that getting thinner and thinner by minuscule amounts is also a waste and could compromise the strength of the device. The air 2 vibrations stopped me from buying one and the paper thin chassis had a lot to do with it.
I agree, 4k of a phone or tablet is simply unnecessary and for nothing other than being on a spec sheet. It sucks system resources and battery pushing that many pixels; hence why Android devices with 4k have HUGE batteries but still relatively poor usage times.
The could up the smaller iPhone line to 1080ish (and fix the scaling issue that causes the Plus graphics to stutter/lag/etc) along with the Plus and the Air to iPad Pro resolution but that's ll they need to go right now really.
I have yet to see one true benefit to 4k on a mobile device
The could up the smaller iPhone line to 1080ish (and fix the scaling issue that causes the Plus graphics to stutter/lag/etc) along with the Plus and the Air to iPad Pro resolution but that's ll they need to go right now really.
I have yet to see one true benefit to 4k on a mobile device
I hope they don't go 4k yet, these displays are already huge power drains. They look great and the PPI is already really high. Yes, at some point they should improve it but I think it's already better than it needs to be so I'd hope they focus on more pressing issues.