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iPad Will iPad Air 3 be the first iPad where the previous generation won't get jealous?

XTheLancerX said:
I have an iPad mini 2 and have huge jealousy for the Air 2. A7 iPads are so stuttery with everything and refresh so much. Also miss Touch ID from my iPhone 6.
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I have no stutter issues and have yet to have Touch ID, so for me it's "meh". I look forward to having Touch ID on my next phone (especially when Apple Pay comes to Canada), but my iPad rarely leaves the house, so security is less an issue. And I don't see me lugging an iPad around to pay for stuff.
 
bob24 said:
I'd say force touch is only coming to the iPhone this year and iPad will have to wait on more generation. New hardware tricks always come to the iPad a year after the iPhone (see retina display, Touch ID, improved cameras, etc).
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Though the iPad Air 2 has a three core cpu and 2GB of RAM where you would think they would of advertised and put into the iPhone first then
 
To be completely honest I'm absolutely in love with my iPad Air 2. I'm more looking forward to what they do with iOS 9 than the next iPad. Anything short of washing my dishes, doing laundry, or a holographic display like Tony Stark has and I won't be upgrading this year. I am interested to see what Apple does with the iPad Pro though. Whether or not they just make the iPad a bit bigger or whether they take advantage of it with iOS 9 and find innovative seamless ways to multitask and take advantage of the size.
 
I'm quite happy with the iPad Air, but I am very interested in the new iPad.

Things we might see:

-Better speakers.

-Better digitizer making it possible to accurately take notes quickly with a stylus. I think this would be huge.

-Less glare from the screen.

-Faster processor. It is not that the iPad struggles to do the current tasks but this would open up new opportunities.

The rest of the improvements would be in software. Some sort of multitasking would be really good. Instead of a split screen I think I'd rather have something more like a Picture in Picture effect. The second window would float above the first and could be relocated as desired. This way one could work on one document while observing a web page or streamed video.

Hopefully Apple will fix up Pages and Numbers bringing them up to parity with iWorks '09.

I'd like Siri to gain a broader vocabulary. Maybe we could request special vocabularies. I could use a science and engineering vocabulary. Simply try reading Siri a list of elements and see the garbled mess that comes out now. I realize not everyone needs this but there should be a way for Siri to handle special vocabularies.

AirDrop should be more reliable. It is really great now when it works. Sometimes it requires that I power Bluetooth on and off or a restart to get it to work.

I'd like to be able to conduct a FT chat with up to three other people and there should be a white board that we could share.

I'd also like to use FaceTime in a one-to-many configuration where there is one presenter and many listeners. I'd like to present a Keynote file at the same time.

Mail could be improved. Currently we can see folders created on Mac OS X but we can't create them on the iPad.
 
I really don't see what they could upgrade to the next iPad that could persuade me to upgrade from my Air 2. It is a great device in my opinion that should last a while.
 
ChinaRye said:
I really don't see what they could upgrade to the next iPad that could persuade me to upgrade from my Air 2. It is a great device in my opinion that should last a while.
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I was watching the way my wife and some of her friends use their iPads and I think they would agree with you. For them the iPad is kind of like a television set. They use it to select different content to view be it videos, web pages, messages or mail and play a few games. Televisions last a long time. A quick search reveals that TVs get replaced after about 8 years.

Other people, like me, would use the iPad to create content or for other purposes. We are interested in new features of a possible future iPad that will expand our opportunities. For us upgrading to the next iPad Air or even an iPad Pro is a strong possibility.

In my household this works out well. When I get a new iPad my wife inherits my existing iPad and her iPad goes to one of her friends who hasn't tried one yet. Everybody wins!
 
i'm sceptical about force touch - maybe it will just be pressure sensitive but no haptics. i'd like to see proper digitizer support, maybe with a stylus released with the ipad pro. maybe the'll, update the facetime camera, but as facetime only supports 720p that doesn't make much sense either. maybe they'll change the design a bit to avoid the vibration issues with the speakers. stereo speakers would be nice. my psvita has really good stereo/virtual surround sound, although the speakers don't sound as nice as the ipad's

i'd guess it'll get a slightly better battery, a different (maybe more energy efficent cpu), a new gpu and faster storage. maybe an oled display. battery life was the one thing that got worse with the air 2.
 
batting1000 said:
Just got a refurb Air 2. Can't get over how thin it is. You can feel noticeable difference even compared to the Air 1.
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Same here. I don't own one, but I have an iPod touch, and that thing is super-thin, even for its size. And then there is the Air 2, which is just as thin, but about 6 times the size. Can't face it.
 
Happy with my Air 1. Saw no need to get the 2. Definitely not buying the pro. Air 1 is big enough.
 
I tell myself that I'm perfectly content with my iPad Air 2, but if they drop an Air 3 with force touch and an exterior design to match the iPhone 6 I know I'll be picking a new one up.
 
Had my iPad Air 1 since launch day and consciously skipped iPad Air 2 (although I did end up buying one for my girlfriend to replace her iPad mini 1 at the time). Looking forward to seeing what changes Apple bring to the iPad Air cause it's likely I'll upgrade. Still hoping we'll find out more about the fabled iPad Pro everyone is expecting, although I doubt I'll be in the market for that.
 
I swear if iOS 9 makes the iPad Air 2 run like an air 1 with apps & tabs refreshing , I'm never buying another iPad again
Right now everything is smooth

iOS 11 I could understand , I read the story about apple working to make old hardware run better in iOS 9 , I'm not holding my breath
 
Apples n' Stone said:
-A9/A9X
-Possibly the curved glass although that would change the form factor again.
-Possibly shave off a graphite layer (pencil ad refrence).
-Force touch hopefully
-Doubtful of an improved Retina HD screen until we have seen this on the rumoured iPad pro first.
-Rumoured 256GB capacity, yet again this I would assume we will see on the Pro first.
-7000 Series or slightly improved grade of Aluminium
-On the off chance the display changed, same resolution AmoLED.
-Rose Gold if the iPhone features it to match said Watch.
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I think the ones highlighted in bold are the most likely for the iPad Air 3. There is also an NFC chip inside the iPad Air 2, which apple could activate.

I'm tempted to get one of the refurbished iPad Air 2's available on the online apple store where they're giving 15% off.
 
Heisenberg888 said:
I think the ones highlighted in bold are the most likely for the iPad Air 3. There is also an NFC chip inside the iPad Air 2, which apple could activate.

I'm tempted to get one of the refurbished iPad Air 2's available on the online apple store where they're giving 15% off.
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Yes, I listed the entire lot and would not be remotely shocked if only three features were included! And I am aware of the NFC but seen as I live in the UK my NFC is limited to giving the royal wave with my Starbucks card! Any NFC would be great (UK banks, get your stuff together.)
 
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LoloBond said:
The iPad 3 was the worst iPad release from apple. Adding retina without a good gpu was a really f**up from Apple . How did the fix it? Releasing another iPad with better cpu/gpu a few months later.
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I cant say that was my experience with the iPad 3. It was my first iPad, bought at launch and i loved it until the day I sold it last winter to upgrade to the Air2. For me i never really noticed any of the gpu performance decrease and i played a lot high performance games like Asphalt 8 and RR3.

I wont lie though, i was a little salty when Apple launched the ipad 4 six months later but i soon got over it as the change to me was very minor.
 
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Apples n' Stone said:
Yes, I listed the entire lot and would not be remotely shocked if only three features were included! And I am aware of the NFC but seen as I live in the UK my NFC is limited to giving the royal wave with my Starbucks card! Any NFC would be great (UK banks, get your stuff together.)
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i'm from UK as well and agree. Hopefully apple pay will be introduced here later this year.
 
Form factor update to match the Watch/iPhone surely? The chamfered edge look is more akin to the 5/5S. That plus the usual CPU spec bumps
 
Kendo said:
The iPad 2 was much thinner and lighter than the iPad 1. The iPad 3 introduced Retina which made people want to upgrade from iPad 2. The iPad Air like the iPad 2 made the design much thinner and lighter. The iPad Air 2 once again made the iPad thinner, lighter, added Touch ID, went from vanilla A7 to A8X, and doubled the RAM.

The jump to iPad 4 from iPad 3 was probably the last model that didn't have people waiting on line to get the new iPad. Will the iPad Air 3 have a modest feeling of wanting to upgrade like the iPad 3 to iPad 4? Because they will probably keep the same amount of RAM, and I can't imagine it getting any more thinner or lighter. Unless they change the design to look like the iPhone 6?
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I think the answer is probably yes. Since they made the iPad Air 2 thinner and lighter after only one year, I think the iPad Air 3 will keep the same design. Apple probably wants as many people as possible to buy the 12" iPad, so that could be a reason why they focus less on the iPad Air 3.

I think most would say that every other iPad is the one that ended up being worth buying. The first iPad was not supported very long, the iPad 3 had heat issues and lower-than-adequate GPU performance, and the iPad Air only had 1GB of RAM. Maybe that cycle will continue?
 
I had an iPad 2 and was not at all jealous of the iPad 3. Actually ordered one and sent it back a day after I got it because it was noticeably thicker, heavier, hotter, and laggier. Pretty screen, but worse in many other ways than its predecessor.
 
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