Apple Announces the iPad Air and iPad Mini 2

Apple has officially announced the next two installments of the iPad Mini and iPad 4. The announced devices are the iPad Mini 2 and the iPad Air. Apple has decided to call this installment of the iPad 4 to be iPad Air. The iPad Mini 2 and the iPad Air continues to rock and now these are slimmer and lighter than the previous flagships. But what about the changes inside? Yeah!! These also have faster chips and better displays too or I must say incredible displays. 

iPad Mini 2

Just like the original iPad Mini its second installment has a 7.9 inches Retina display with 4:3 aspect ratio. The Retina display has a resolution of 1536 x 2048 pixels, wow that's making a staggering density of 324ppi. So the display is clearly on the dominating side. The new iPad is only 7.5mm thick and weighs 331g, well that's a bit heavy. Moreover the device also lacks TouchID which made a great impact on the market with recently announced iPhone 5S. 

Talking about the internal specs Apple has totally revamped the architecture of the CPU. The previous iPad Mini had an outdated dual-core processor but this time Apple has put their own A7 chip in the device which has Cyclone cores and is quite faster than the previous iPad Mini. Moreover there is also an ultra-fast PowerVR SGX 6th series GPU and an M7 motion co-processor on-board which boosts the graphics performance of the device.

Unsurprisingly the iPad Mini 2 comes with the latest iOS 7 out of the box and offers four color options which include Black, White, Silver and Space Gray. It also offers four storage options 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. There will be two variants of the device Wifi model and 3G LTE model. The base price for the 16GB Wifi model is $399 while the Cellular model will cost $529.

iPad Air

The newly announced iPad Air is the fifth installment of the iPad 4. Apple iPad Air has a totally brand new design and a significantly improved performance. Apple has shaved off the bezels and now the new iPad has incredibly narrow bezels and looks amazingly attractive. The new iPad is only 7.5mm thin and is also quite light weighing only 469g. iPad Air has the same 9.7 inches IPS LCD Retina display with a whooping resolution of 1536 x 2048 pixels. 

iPad Air also lacks touchID but it has all the power you need. The new iPad is powered by the Apple's A7 chip and the M7 motion co-processor. So just like the design the internal changes are also notable. It offers Silver, Space Gray and White color along with four storage options which include 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. Just like the iPad Mini 2 it also has two variants; the 16GB Wifi model will cost only $499 along with 3G model costing $629.

The new iPad will be available from the 1st of November. The changes Apple has made to the design and the processors are quite commendable. I must appreciate how Apple has designed the new iPad; I mean shaving off the bezels is quite a good idea. These two iPads are awesome and are equally powerful to the Asus Nexus 7 (2013). I am quite impressed by the approach of Apple. Stay tuned for more updates.