The new iPad Air could be one of the next tablets from Apple, following the iPad Pro 2020 earlier this year, and if the leaks are to be believed, it will bring a lot of improvements over its predecessor. The iPad Air is Apple's second most premium tablet, ranking above the entry-level iPad Mini (2019) and iPad ranges, but it doesn't pack all the high-end features and specifications. iPad Pro range. The latest entry in the series was the iPad Air 3 in 2019, so this new tablet would be the iPad Air 4, although it might not be called that. Leaks have started to happen for the new iPad Air 4, which you'll find below, but there aren't enough of them yet to get a clear idea of what Apple's next tablet will offer. As such, we've also put together a list of features we'd love to see on the slate, based on what the iPad Air 3 looks like, as well as the best points of other Apple tablets and what the company's competitors are. in the tablet market. So read on for everything we know about the iPad Air 4 and what we want to see in the new tablet. Latest Update: A huge leak has spilled the beans on many an iPad Air 4, along with the question of what we previously thought of the release date and price.
Come to the point
- What is it? Apple's next mid-range tablet
- When did it come out? Maybe towards the end of 2020, maybe later
- How much will it cost? Maybe around € 499 / € 479 / AU € 779
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iPad Air 2019 (Image credit: Apple)
Launch date and price of the new iPad Air 4
Apple generally doesn't rely on yearly release models for its tablets, unlike its phones, so the iPad Air 3's March 18, 2019 release date hasn't repeated a year. later. Instead, we expect to see the new iPad Air at some indistinguishable point in the future. We were hoping for a late 2020 release date, but the only rumor we've heard is that it could be later, in March 2021. This rumor also says that the price of the iPad Air will start at €649 (around €500, AU €900), for a version with 128GB of storage, and this will only increase for the announced 256GB and 512GB versions. per flight. Considering the previous iPad Air started at $499 / £479 / AU$779, that would be a huge price increase in some areas. However, Apple doesn't always change the cost of its tablets for new iterations, and often cuts down on older models to set them apart. Therefore, we argue that the new iPad Air will not be too expensive than its predecessor.
Leaks and news of the new iPad Air 4
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iPad Air 2019 (Image credit: Future) The first leak we heard gave us some key details about the new iPad Air - it details two big changes the tablet could make from its predecessor. For one thing, the 2020 iPad Air could have USB-C connectivity, rather than a lightweight port, while the other detail mentioned is an 11-inch size, compared to the 3-inch iPad Air 10,5. These changes would make the new iPad Air 4 more like the 2020 iPad Pro than previous models. This could help differentiate it further from the base line of iPads, but risks making it too similar to the Pro line. Another smaller leak suggested that the iPad Air would have an in-display fingerprint scanner, a technology that Apple it has not adopted despite using most high-end Android phones. We're not entirely convinced Apple would add this technology to an iPad Air before an iPad Pro. We did, however, have a massive leak, which matched the USB-C and 11-inch claims, and added a lot more. The tablet will apparently have a similar design to the iPad Pro, a Face ID connection (though there's no mention of on-screen Touch ID), four stereo speakers, a rear camera, a Liquid Retina display, and the A14 chipset. or A14X Bionic (expected on iPhone 12). This leak makes the iPad Air 4 look a lot like an ``iPad Pro Lite'', as if that were true, the new tablet will have many features of high-end slates. We will have to see when it will be published. The design comment is also intriguing: does that mean the iPad Air could have flat edges or no home button?
New iPad Air 4: what we want to see
This is what we want to see changed, or new, in the iPad Air 4.
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Apple Pencil 2 (Image credit: future)
1. Apple Pencil 2 connectivity
The iPad Air 3 only worked with the original Apple Pencil, which certainly had its drawbacks (it was really painful to carry, for example). Newer iPad Pro models use the second-generation Apple Pencil, which fixes all the problems of the original and more. So we'd like to see the new iPad Air work with the Apple Pencil 2, instead of the original. If Apple wants its new iPad Air to function as an "iPad Pro Lite" rather than a larger version of the entry-level iPad, this would be the kind of change it needs to make.
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iPad Air 2019 (Image credit: future)
Another indicator of the iPad Air's budget DNA is its use of Touch ID, with a physical button and a large bezel to house it: the entry-level iPad uses this design, while recent iPad models use this design. The iPad Pro uses Face ID and has much slimmer bezels. . Whether or not Apple wants the iPad Air to look more like the Pro units, it should stop using this outdated design for its mid-range tablets and leave a version for entry-level tablets or iPad Minis instead. Instead, we'd love to see Apple implement Face ID on iPad Air units or, as one leak indicates, an in-display fingerprint scanner, so that the bezel can be significantly reduced.
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iPad Air 2019 (Image credit: future)
3. A newer chipset
Something that's likely to happen, but we'd definitely like to see anyway, is newer iPad Air models that use a newer chipset, perhaps the A13 Bionic that we saw in the iPhone 11 lineup. This would give them a lot of processing power, but probably wouldn't increase the cost too much (because Apple wouldn't need to develop a new chipset). The 2020 iPad Pro units only use a variant of the A12 Bionic chipset from the iPhone XS, so if the iPad Air 4 used the A13, it would probably be more powerful than the Pro units, so it's not. guaranteed that Apple will give that to the iPad Air. a big boost. At the very least, we'd like it to have the same chipset as the 2020 iPad Pro.
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iPad 10.2 with Lightning port (Image credit: Future)
4. One USB-C port
A rumor suggests that the new 2020 iPad Air will have a USB-C port, instead of the Lightning port that Apple devices typically use, and it's a change we'd really like to see. USB-C ports allow for faster charging and faster data transfer, so for both productivity and general use, it's much more useful than Lightning. The 2020 iPad Pro units come with USB-C, so there's certainly precedent for Apple using this technology, and in fact, they've been telling each other for a few years that iPhones will start using it too, although this hasn't happened until now. now.
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iPad Air 2019 (Image credit: future)
5. The same (relatively) low price
We've called the iPad Air line "mid-range," but in the grand scheme of Apple's tablet lineup, it's much closer to the entry-level iPad and iPad Minis than Apple's pricey models. iPad Pro. We'd like to keep this the same for the iPad Air 4. Many leaks (and our requests) make the iPad Air 4 look a lot more like an iPad Pro than previous devices in the line, but that doesn't mean it has to cost as much as one. Keeping the price low would allow more people to buy the tablets, and perhaps even convince some to upgrade to the higher-end iPad Pro range the next time they need a tablet.