{"id":21171,"date":"2020-06-06T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2585097"},"modified":"2020-06-06T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:10:00","slug":"new-ipad-air-4-what-we-want-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/06\/new-ipad-air-4-what-we-want-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"New iPad Air 4: what we want to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new iPad Air 2020 shouldn&rsquo;t be an iterative update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If rumors are to be believed, the new iPad Air could be the next iPad Apple releases, likely sometime in 2020, after the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ipad-pro-2020-release-date-price-news-and-everything-you-need-to-know\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"2515776160102782500\">iPad Pro 2020<\/a>&nbsp;from earlier in the year, and before perhaps a new iPad Mini towards the end of the year or in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad Air is Apple&rsquo;s second most top-end tablet, sitting above the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/ipad-mini-2019\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"8726407420123197000\">iPad Mini (2019)<\/a>&nbsp;and entry-level iPad ranges, but not packing all the features and specs of the top-end iPad Pro line. The last entry to the series was the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/ipad-air-2019\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"3868321928465271000\"><u>iPad Air 3<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in 2019, so this new tablet would be the iPad Air 4 &#8211; though it might not be called that.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"hawk-widget\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" data-widget-id=\"6249191835111194000\" data-result=\"missing\"><\/aside>\n<p>Leaks have started rolling in for the new iPad Air 4, which you&#8217;ll find below, but there&rsquo;s not enough just yet to get a clear picture of what the upcoming Apple tablet will offer.<\/p>\n<p>As such, we&rsquo;ve also come up with a list of features we&rsquo;d like to see in the slate, based on what the iPad Air 3 was like along with the best points of Apple&rsquo;s other tablets, and what the company&rsquo;s competitors are doing in the tablet market.<\/p>\n<p>So read on for everything we know about the iPad Air 4, and what we want to see from the new tablet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-iphone-12\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1038011610167303200\">Here&#8217;s what we know about the iPhone 12<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"cut-to-the-chase\">Cut to the chase<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?&nbsp;<\/strong>Apple&#8217;s next mid-range tablet<\/li>\n<li><strong>When is it out?&nbsp;<\/strong>Perhaps towards the end of 2020<\/li>\n<li><strong>How much will it cost?&nbsp;<\/strong>Possibly around $499 \/ &pound;479 \/ AU$779<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"new-ipad-air-4-release-date-and-price\">New iPad Air 4 release date and price<\/h2>\n<p>While we&rsquo;ve heard some iPad Air 4 leaks, we haven&rsquo;t heard anything about a release date or price, so we&rsquo;re going to have to delve into some hearty speculation.<\/p>\n<p>Apple doesn&rsquo;t typically rely on yearly release patterns for its tablets, unlike its phones, which is why the iPad Air 3&rsquo;s March 18, 2019 release date wasn&rsquo;t repeated a year later. Instead, we&rsquo;re expecting to see the new iPad Air at some point before the end of 2020, although it&rsquo;s possible it will land even later.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of price, Apple doesn&#8217;t always change the cost of its tablets for new iterations, and instead often discounts the older models to differentiate them. The iPad Air 3 launched for $499 \/ &pound;479 \/ AU$779, so the next-gen version will likely cost roughly this as well, though the price might rise slightly if there are enough upgrades.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"new-ipad-air-4-leaks-and-news\">New iPad Air 4 leaks and news<\/h2>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve heard&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ipad-air-2020-could-take-two-of-the-ipad-pros-best-features\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"6457056686094724000\"><u>one big leak<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;which has given us some key possible details about the new iPad Air &#8211; it details two big changes the tablet could have over its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the iPad Air 2020 could have USB-C connectivity, instead of a Lighting port, while the other detail mentioned is an 11-inch size, over the 10.5-inch iPad Air 3.<\/p>\n<p>These changes would make the new iPad Air 4 seem more like the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/ipad-pro-2020\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1152339661775427600\">iPad Pro 2020<\/a>&nbsp;than previous models. That could help further differentiate it from the basic iPad range, but risks making it overly similar to the Pro range.<\/p>\n<p>Another&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ipad-air-could-be-apples-first-device-with-an-in-screen-fingerprint-scanner\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1717800077967955700\"><u>smaller leak<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;suggested the iPad Air will get an in-screen fingerprint scanner, a technology Apple hasn&rsquo;t embraced despite most top-end Android phones using it. We&#8217;re not totally convinced that Apple would add this tech to an iPad Air before an iPad Pro though.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"new-ipad-air-4-what-we-want-to-see\">New iPad Air 4: what we want to see<\/h2>\n<p>This is what we want to see changed, or new, in the iPad Air 4.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"1-apple-pencil-2-connectivity\">1. Apple Pencil 2 connectivity<\/h2>\n<p>The iPad Air 3 only worked with the original&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/how-to\/apple-pencil-on-ipad-our-full-guide-on-how-to-use-it\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1415213476979809300\">Apple Pencil<\/a>, which certainly had its drawbacks (it was a real pain to charge, for example). Recent iPad Pro models use the second-generation Apple Pencil, which solves all the original&rsquo;s issues and more.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;d like to see the new iPad Air work with the Apple Pencil 2, rather than the original. If Apple wants its new iPad Air to work like an &lsquo;iPad Pro Lite&rsquo; instead of a bigger version of the entry-level iPad, this would be the kind of change it needs to make.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"2-drop-the-touch-id-and-physical-button\">2. Drop the Touch ID and physical button<\/h2>\n<p>Another indicator of the iPad Air&rsquo;s budget DNA is its use of Touch ID, with a physical button and a big bezel to house it &#8211; the entry-level iPad uses this design, while the recent iPad Pro models use Face ID and have much thinner bezels.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Apple wants the iPad Air to seem more like the Pro units, it needs to stop using this antiquated design for its mid-range tablets, and leave such a build for the entry-level tablets or iPad Minis.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we&rsquo;d like to see Apple roll Face ID out to the iPad Air units or, as one leak states, an in-screen fingerprint scanner, so the bezel can be drastically reduced.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"3-a-newer-chipset\">3. A newer chipset<\/h2>\n<p>Something that&rsquo;s likely to happen, but which we&rsquo;d certainly like to see anyway, is the new iPad Air models using a newer chipset, possibly the A13 Bionic we saw in the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/iphone-11-review\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1275793705812473600\">iPhone 11<\/a>&nbsp;range.<\/p>\n<p>This would give them great processing power, but likely wouldn&rsquo;t increase the cost too much (as Apple wouldn&#8217;t need to develop a new chipset).<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 iPad Pro units only use a variant of the&nbsp;<a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/reviews\/iphone-xs-review\" data-component-tracked=\"1\" data-dimension73=\"1458199289732552400\">iPhone XS<\/a>&rsquo;s A12 Bionic chipset though, so if the iPad Air 4 used the A13 it would likely actually be more powerful than the Pro units, so it&rsquo;s not guaranteed Apple will give the iPad Air this much of a boost.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least though, we&#8217;d like to see it have the same chipset as the iPad Pro 2020.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"4-a-usb-c-port\">4. A USB-C port<\/h2>\n<p>One rumor suggests the new iPad Air 2020 will have a USB-C port, instead of the Lightning port Apple&rsquo;s devices tend to use, and this is a change we&rsquo;d really like to see.<\/p>\n<p>USB-C ports allow for faster charging, and also quicker data transfer, so both for productivity and general use it&rsquo;s far more useful than Lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The iPad Pro 2020 units have USB-C, so there&rsquo;s certainly a precedent for Apple using this tech, and in fact it&rsquo;s been rumored for a few years that iPhones will start using it too, although that&rsquo;s not actually happened so far.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"5-the-same-relatively-low-price\">5. The same (relatively) low price<\/h2>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve been calling the iPad Air line &lsquo;mid-range&rsquo;, but in the grand scheme of Apple&rsquo;s tablet line-up it&rsquo;s much closer to the entry-level iPads and iPad Minis than the pricey iPad Pro models. We&rsquo;d like this to stay the same for the iPad Air 4.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of the leaks (and our requests) make it sound like the iPad Air 4 will be a lot more like an iPad Pro than previous devices in the line, but this doesn&rsquo;t mean it needs to cost as much as one.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the price low would allow more people to purchase the tablets, and possibly even convince a few to upgrade to the top-end iPad Pro line the next time they need a tablet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ipad-pro-2020-release-date-price-news-and-everything-you-need-to-know\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/new-ipad-pro-2020-release-date-price-news-and-everything-you-need-to-know<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Tom Bedford<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Tom Bedford<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new iPad Air 2020 shouldn&rsquo;t be an iterative update If rumors are to be believed, the new iPad Air could be the next iPad Apple releases, likely sometime in 2020, after the&nbsp;iPad Pro 2020&nbsp;from earlier in the year, and before perhaps a new iPad Mini towards the end of the year or in early &hellip; 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