Apple iPad is very thin, thinner than the gadget you own,
thinner than a pencil, thinner than a magazine and it is very light. Other
phones and tablet are also thin but this one leads in thinness
Design
What you will immediately notice when carrying the tablet is
its amazing thinness and the shiny new Touch ID home button; it retains the
core designs of the predecessor having 9.7-inch 1536 x 2048 pixels IPS
LED-backlit display. The edges are still precision chamfered and the corners
are rounded for better grip and feel, the back is flat but curved towards the edges.
The bezels on all the four sides are not that slim but also not too wide, the
top and bottom bezels are wider. Looking at how the controls are and the ease
of accessing them, below the display is the Touch ID home button which is a stainless
steel ring. Above the display is the 1.2 MP camera of 720p video recording with
an aperture of f/2,2. The left hand side if it is in portrait, has no controls
while on the right side there are volume rockers which are two metal buttons
each in their own nest and they are easy to located. At the bottom is where the
stereo speakers are located, the power button is on the top right, 3.55mm audio
jack on the opposite corner. At the back is where the second microphone is and
a 8 MP iSight camera
Display
iPad Air 2 has a 9.7-inch display which is fully laminated
meaning the components, LCD, touch sensor and cover glass are molded into one
and now have an antireflective coating that apple claims will make the screen
very easy to read in extreme light.
The display is 2048 x 1536 pixels with a pixel density of
264ppi.
Connectivity
It has a much better connectivity due to the advancements done
in radio and Wi-Fi chipsets. The Wi-Fi can support 802.11ac which is twice as
fast as before with a speed of 856 Mbps. Can support SIM cards, Local Networks
includes Bluetooth 4.0
Hardware and performance
iPad 2 has the best chip, 64-bit A8 dubbed the A8X, it is a triple
core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz which is said to bring about 40 % improvement
over than the old A7 chip and also brings a 2.5x improvement in graphic
performance. For the first time Apple has given 2 GB RAM and runs with iOS 8.
In CPU performance benchmarking. We tested on the Geekbench 3 and iPad air 2
managed to be at the top beating even HTC Nexus 9 by far, the chip A8x is very
perfect and powerful very suitable for gaming. The results were, iPad air 2 was
first scoring 4464, followed by Nexus 9 3470 and Nexus 6 came third with 3285
even in Basemark OS II CPU benchmark it was still at the top with 1937, Nexus 9
1890 then third was Nexus 6 1509. In graphics performance, it was still the
best
Camera
The back camera is iSight 8 MP which gives the quality
pictures having resolutions of 3264 x 2448 pixels with auto-focus and features
1.2um pixel size, geo tagging , touch focus, face/smile detection, HDR
(photo/panorama) and is capable of 1080p@30fps, 720p@120fps video recording
with HDR, stereo sound quality
The front camera is 1.2 MP, I know most of Android flagship
phones have very powerful front facing camera, but for iPad air 2 has improved
the front camera having an aperture of f2.2 which generally allows clearer Face
time chats
Battery Life
Apple claims on the iPad Air 2’s battery life is 10 h which
is the same as last year, it is not surprise many tablets and phones can last
for 10 h or even longer
The good
Thinner than ever at
6.1 mm and lighter at 437g
A Powerful hardware
TouchID fingerprint sensor
Comes with premium applications set for free, iMovie,
Keynote etc
Have stereo speakers
The Bad
No microSD card slot
No standard microUSB port
Very pricey
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