It will still deliver value to us, but young people are no longer using the PC in future.” Jobs predicted that Tablet PC will become the primary computing device for most people.
Three and a half years later, just as what Steve Jobs said, the Tablet PC market existed an explosive growth. But since Google, Samsung, Amazon and other companies have introduced Android tablets which has lower priced, but equal functional with the iPad, this makes the iPad sales have declined.
What’s more, iPad has new competitors in the past two years, it is Microsoft's Windows system tablet. Facing the competition, this year Apple introduced the iPad Air. The following is a comprehensive overview of iPad Air:
1. Hardware of iPad Air
a) Weight and volume
It is 180 grams lighter and 0.07 inches thinner than the previous generation iPad. The difference can be clearly felt only when you hold it. Whether it is held vertically or horizontally, it can provide you a comfortable feeling. Compared to the leather plastic material of Samsung Galaxy Not and the huge volume of Microsoft Surface 2, iPad Air wins completely. In fact, on the hold feeling, iPad is better than all the other large-size tablets I’ve used.b) Camera and speaker
The same with the previous generation, the pixel of main camera iPad is also 5 million pixels. And the front Facetime camera is slightly improved to 1.2 million pixels, it can work better under low light environments. The machine uses a dual-microphone design and equipped with a noise reduction feature that allows the user record better quality sound when capture videos.On both sides of the lightning data the interface distributes two stereo speakers. Compared to the previous generation, stereo speakers of the iPad Air can be regarded as a small improvement. However, in actual use, when you laterally hold the equipment, the speakers are easily covered by your hand.
c) Battery capacity and endurance
Compared to the iPad 4 4250 mAh battery capacity, iPad Air battery capacity has reduced to 3240 mAh. But do not believe that if the battery capacity is small, and endurance will reduce. In the actual test, iPad Air battery endurance reaches 10 hours. In addition, another advantage of the smaller battery capacity is that both the body size and weight have declined.
d) Processor
The secret of iPad Air saving more electricity than the iPad 4 lies in its processor. The same with the iPhone 5s and Retina iPad mini, iPad Air also uses Apple latest A7 processor. The advantage of A7 processor is that, it can achieve fast operation speed and power saving at the same time. Apple said that, the iPad Air processing speed is twice as fast as the previous generation.e) Touch ID
iPad Air does not match the Touch ID fingerprint recognition technology on iPhone 5s. But I do not quite mind it. After all, the times I unlock the iPad is far less than the times to unlock the iPhone. And so far, Touch ID does not have too many other uses. Maybe in the future there will be more applications beginning to support Touch ID, but only from the current point of view, the lack of Touch ID does not cause any problems for me.2. Software
a) Advantages:
IPad Air runs the latest iOS 7 system. I believe that some readers have tried this system in their own iPhone or the previous generation iPad. iOS 7 runs very smoothly in the iPad Air. IPad Air users can also free download iWork and iLife suite of applications, including six applications: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iPhoto and iMovie. These applications have been optimized for iOS 7, and also support iCloud storage.b) Disadvantages:
iPad Air also has disadvantages. Inadequate. Under the iPad device, the complete degree of iOS is not high enough. For example, some animation effect is not very smooth; in vertical mode, the new application switcher is not very practical; several multitasking gestures don’t respond quickly enough and so on. In addition, Apple's iBooks app is not optimized for iOS 7, making it seems out of place with this system.Some iPad Air users may have the demands to watch DVD movies on their iPad as the iPad Air really provides wonderful resolution when watching movies. However, on some normal situations, we can’t play DVD movies on iPad. But don’t worry, here is a guide for you to solve this problem. Just read How to Put DVD on iPad, then you can easily achieve this goal.
Kim GuoAbout the Author:
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