Steve Hemmerstoffer from site Nowhereelse.fr, who is better known by his nickname Onleaks in Twitter, published an image of new Apple tablet, which shows some details of its design.

As you can see in the picture below, iPad Air 3 will have four speakers. Speaker grille has a classic round holes. It should be noted that the speakers are located in the lower and upper parts of the body iPad Air 3.

In addition, new images of tablet suggests that iPad Air 3 will get the main camera with LED flash.

Please note that today’s leak came from a reliable source Onleaks that has a very high reputation. He has repeatedly published very credible reports about unannounced devices, but already preparing to release updates to the mobile market.

What do we know about the new Apple iPad Air 3? According to rumors, new tablet, which can be presented in March of 2016, will get a screen with Oxide TFT LCD matrix. Most likely it will not support 3D Touch technology, which appeared in iPhone 6s. Also a new generation of the tablet will be equipped with powerful processor A9X, working together with 2GB or 4GB of RAM.

Recent reports say that iPad Air 3 will be equipped with a main camera iSight, the resolution of which is 8 megapixels.

Recall that the sale of standard model iPads decreased over the last year. The manufacturer wants to improve the situation in the market due to new technologies and powerful equipment. At the moment, the most popular model in the consumer market is iPad Mini. Some analysts believe at all tablets become obsolete as the product. iPad Air was replaced by more successful 5.5-inch iPhone.

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If sometimes you feel that the iPad battery is slightly lacking, remember that the best results will still search. According to statistics published by Which, iPad Air – the most “survivable” tablet.

To come to this conclusion, the staff resource “tortured” poor gadget unceasing work and looked at how much it will be enough. Enough for a long time: for 658 minutes of continuous use of the web and 777 minutes of video playback. Absolute record.

Nearest rivals bother as well, but it is far to the leader. Second place for the duration of the Internet takes iPad Mini with Retina-display (614 minutes), and second place for the duration of video playback went to Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (714 minutes).

In general, the table success and failure is contradictory. So, Google Nexus 7 is ranked third in the playback video, and last for the duration of the websites and online content. iPad with Retina-display also showed controversial results: second place in the online test was transformed into 6th place in the testing of video playback. 

The study is not the tablet on Windows, and staff resource attracted to participate in the tests, not all Android-powered devices, so to say unequivocally that the battery iPad Air – longest running in the market, it is impossible. We can only note that he is one of the most effective and the most tenacious of exactly considered. «Apple has been able to balance the design and capacity of the battery: the battery to fit 8820 mAh in the body with a thickness of 7.5 mm”, – the achievement of the company in Which.

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Some owners of the latest tablet iPad Air discovered a “defect of the unit’s display.” According to the official forum Apple, screens some specimens have a yellow tint, and is reported to have been uneven.

This is especially obvious when comparing the iPad Air to its predecessor, iPad 4. Notice some motion blur of color and contrast. Argues that the defect is the origin of the hardware and can not be corrected by changing the settings or updating the firmware. The only solution is to replace the screen or tablet whole.

We hasten to reassure readers MacDigger: such a “problem” has been found in many other Apple products at an early stage of manufacture. Model so quickly wanted to put on the market, which is still “still hot from previous” assembly made itself felt symptoms of yellow glue residue on the screen. Subsequently, according to users, this defect disappeared by itself. Most likely, it will be so in this case.

How does it look, seen in the photo below:

Supplier of displays for the iPad Air act Samsung, Sharp and LG. Apple has not reported any defects in LCD panels from the tablet.

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In the first day of sales iPad Air authoritative experts from research firm Piper Jaffray conducted a survey among buyers of the new gadget in order to identify those who first bought the tablet from Apple. According to the portal MacRumors, this time the number of “pioneers” in the U.S. has fallen to 25% of the total number of buyers, whereas a year ago they accounted for nearly half of all who want to buy iPad.

However, only 18% of buyers of iPad Air , who had previously been Tablets Apple, will continue to use their old devices. According to analysts, mostly owners of iPad mini – they consider it a great addition to the “big» iPad, so choose both gadget depending on situations. For example, in the same plane to watch movies on the 9.7-inch screen is much more convenient.

Also, experts were able to calculate the cycle updates gadget that many buyers consider the best iPad – 23 months, or almost two years. It is quite obvious, because not everyone can afford to upgrade the tablet each year, and Apple, as a rule, use it for serious updates biennial cycle. However, for the other devices on the market, the figure is 30 months.

94% of American shoppers iPad Air to users of iPhone, which once again proves the benefits of ecosystem Apple. Owners want to sell gadgets all their potential, so they prefer not to choose solutions from other vendors.

iPad Air in the top configuration (capacity of 128 GB) is surprisingly proved to be quite popular, despite the high price of the tablet. According to analysts, every fifth buyer iPad in the U.S. chooses its most senior version.

One expert Piper Jaffray believes that the decline in the popularity of iPad tablet owners of other manufacturers due to a sharp decrease in the number of the latter in recent years. Since most people in the U.S. are choosing exactly iPad, the U.S. market came close to its saturation.

Since the start of sales of iPad Air has been three days, but no site Apple, nor ordinary consumers do not report the deficiency or tablets kilometer-long queues in front of retail stores of the corporation. It is possible that in Cupertino do not want to report the sales of iPad Air for the first weekend.

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According to analyst firm fiksu, tablet iPad Air is much more interested in people than his predecessor last year.

Such findings specialists Fiksu made on the basis of an increasing share of iPad Air models in the total number of active tablet iPad. The graphs below show that the share of the new 9.7-inch tablet iPad is growing five times faster than the share of last year’s models iPad 4 and iPad mini in the same period.

Only the first three days of receipt of the tablet iPad Air to sell its share hit 0.88% of the total number of active tablet iPad. For comparison, the share of iPad 4 and iPad mini in the same period last year was able to rise to 0.15% and 0.22%, respectively.

Thus, it can be argued that the iPad Air to launch attracted more buyers than the model iPad 4 and iPad mini together. It remains only to wait for Apple financial report for the fourth quarter, which will be able to support these conjectures real figures.

At the same time, the figures provided by another analyst firm – Mixpanel , said that the share of iPad Air generated in the Apple mobile data traffic on November 4, is 1.54%. However, with the growth of the share of iPad Air decreased the proportion of tablets iPad first and second generation. In other words, Apple only made the owners of older iPad models to replace them with new iPad Air.

In the past year Apple for the first three days has sold more than 3 million tablets iPad 4 and iPad mini. If the analysts are correct guesses, but this year sales will be much higher and that means one thing for Apple – a victory. It is not always a direct relationship between sales and the share of new devices connecting to the app store in the first few days. Do not forget that the Cupertino has not yet decided on the exact date of the sale of the tablet iPad mini with Retina. Perhaps Apple deliberately chose to take this step in order not to disperse the attention of people between the two products. In addition, those who are not satisfied with iPad Air, can later view in the direction of his younger brother.

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Modern mobile devices are usually equipped with a built-in access point Wi-Fi. iPhone and iPad not only can create a wireless network and provide wireless laptops, smartphones, tablets, and other devices to a network, but is also able to operate in a mode of connection to the provider networks for LTE and 3G.

The publication AnandTech conducted a series of tests of the new-generation tablet iPad Air. In one experiment, experts tested how long gadget can operate independently as a wireless modem. In Access Point mode allows the tablet computers and other mobile devices to access the Internet via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or USB.

For the tests we used a 16-gigabyte version of the iPad Air LTE/3G with network support and a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a display Retina. Experts activated on the iPad Air access point mode, Wi-Fi, turn off the screen gadget laptop hooked to it. Then the data transfer has been started. To get close to the reality of the result, in the process of testing a portable computer continuously downloaded the data from the Internet at a speed of 100 kb / s.

According to the results of the experiment, iPad Air worked in this mode, 24 hours and 8 minutes, then turned off because the battery is completely depleted. During this time, the MacBook Pro via the Internet has been downloaded more than 8 GB of data. LTE-used connection of U.S. operator AT & T.

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Following the Belkin line of accessories for the new tablet iPad Air, equipped with a 9.7-inch screen with a resolution of 2048×1536 pixels, announced by Logitech.

Offers users a keyboard, which play the role of the stand and a protective cover. In particular, the model Fabricskin Keyboard Folio for $ 150 serves as cover to protect the screen and body of the tablet from scratches and other damage. It also serves as a support and fixes the position of the tablet in two positions with hidden magnets. In addition, the equipment cover is waterproof keypad that connects to the tablet by Bluetooth. Keyboard is powered by battery, which is on one charge can last up to three months (to use the keyboard for two hours a day). Built-in battery is charged by means of the port micro-USB.

Model Ultrathin Keyboard Folio virtually identical to an older model with the exception of a water-repellent coating and a simple keyboard. The device is offered in four color options (black, gray, blue and red), and the disadvantages compensated more attractive price – $ 100.

Case Keyboard Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for $ 100 executed in aluminum and protects only the screen of the tablet iPad Air. The main advantage of the keyboard is its thickness – 7.3 mm. The full dimensions of new items are expressed by the formula 240×169, 5×7, 3 mm, weight – 330 g

The latest model is the Folio Protective Case, which lacks built-in keyboard and protects your tablet from damage from both sides. As surfacing material covers the fabric with water-repellent coating. New items can also be used as an adjustable stand that allows the iPad Air put the tablet in any position. Dimensions Folio Protective Case Cover up 255h196h14 mm, weight – 261 The cost is $ 50 cover.

A detailed description of the characteristics of new accessories Logitech can be found here . Sales start in November.

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Apple has introduced a new tablet, called the iPad Air. It should say at once that this is the first iPad the company with its own name. This step is very correct, as buyers have been hard to navigate in the new versions of the device. With all of this in Apple claim that the name Air is selected on purpose. As is the case with the same laptop, the new iPad was thin and lightweight body, so fully deserves the prefix Air.

Like its predecessor, iPad Air is equipped with a 9.7-inch IPS Retina-display with a resolution of 2048×1536 pixels and a density of 264 pixels per inch.

In the heart device is a system-on-chip Apple A7 with 64-bit 2-core processor clocked at 1.3 GHz. In the tablet also introduced new coprocessor M7, is responsible for tracking the position of the device in space. The amount of RAM the company traditionally does not open, but the built-in storage can have a capacity of 16, 32, 64 and even 128 GB.

The main camera in the iPad Air 5-megapixel iSight with an aperture of f/2.4, autofocus and the ability to recognize human faces. It is able to record video with the stabilization in the resolution of 1080p. Additional Camera – 1.2 megapixel FaceTime HD with a resolution of 720p is designed for video calls.

Of the sensors in the iPad Air has an accelerometer, gyroscope and light sensor. In addition, Apple has used in his first plate module Wi-Fi a / b / g / n with dual-band MIMO-antenna that allows the device to switch on the fly between channels 2.4 and 5 GHz. Of the other wireless options available Bluetooth 4.0, as well as the communication module LTE in some versions of the tablet.

The built-in battery on the iPad Air 32.4 Wh able to provide autonomy at 10:00 when using the browser on the network Wi-Fi, as well as video playback.

As Apple says that to reduce the size and weight of the iPad Air engineers had to modify almost all the components of the tablet. As a result, the thickness thereof is now only 7.5 mm at a height of 240 mm and a width of 169.5 mm. Weight plate unit depends on LTE, it is without at 469 grams, and with it – 478 grams.

Compared with its predecessor, the frame around the display iPad Air became thinner, and in general the whole design of the device has become more like the iPad mini. Connectors and controls when it has not changed.

Below the display is still on the mechanical key out of the application at the top end – the power button and 3.5mm headphone jack on the right side – a switch to mute and volume buttons, and on the lower end – Lightning connector and external speakers.

Cost of iPad Air in the U.S. starts at $ 499 and varies according to the amount of internal memory and the module LTE.

In the sale of a new tablet hits on November 1.

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