Apple announces iPad Air 2; thinner, gold & Touch ID

After months of waiting and leaks, Apple has finally unveiled the refreshed iPad Air, and as expected, it has a lot of upgraded internals, a new Touch ID fingerprint scanner and a lot more.

For the design, the iPad Air 2 is thinner at 6.1mm and will now come in a gold color. It runs on a new A8X 64-bit CPU paired with an M8 motion co-processor, boasting improved performance.

The thinness of the iPad Air 2

Another thing that Apple is boasting is the new 8 megapixel f/2.2 camera that can not only do the basics but also panoramas, timelapse, slo-mo videos and a lot more, all as if Apple wants tablet photography to be a trend.

As you’d expect, Touch ID is also coming to the iPad Air, and it will function accordingly with Apple Pay.

The new iPad Air boasts better sunlight legibility

The iPad Air 2 is priced at $499PHP 29,284INR 42,290EUR 475CNY 3,632 for the 16GB version, $599PHP 35,153INR 50,765EUR 570CNY 4,360 for the 32GB and $699PHP 41,021INR 59,240EUR 666CNY 5,088 for the 128GB. 4G LTE versions will also be available and those will be at $629PHP 36,913INR 53,308EUR 599CNY 4,578, $729PHP 42,782INR 61,783EUR 694CNY 5,306 & $829PHP 48,650INR 70,258EUR 789CNY 6,034 respectively. They will be available next week for the US, but local availability is still unknown. Stay tuned!

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