Apple iPad Air 3 (2019): Unboxing & Review By DetroitBORG

A portion of this video is sponsored by LastPass, hey guys, Mike here the Detroit Borg, with what they think is one of the best iPad values you can buy right now. This is the new resurrected, iPad Air. This is the third generation of the pay there after a two-year hiatus. Essentially, this is a repurposed 10.5, inch iPad Pro and in some ways this is both an upgraded and downgraded version of the iPad Pro we'll talk about that, but first, let's get to the basics. So this retails for $4.99, with 64 gigs of storage, but for 649, the old price of the iPad Pro you can upgrade to 256 gigs of storage. You can also get a cellular version which adds another 129 dollars, so this finally fills a pretty big and obvious gap in their iPad line up between the much cheaper $329 iPad and the very expensive, almost $800, iPad Pro so getting to the unboxing no knives.

Here they give us a little pull temp to rip off the plastic surrounding the box, lifting the lid and getting to the iPad you can see. The version I have here is in Space Gray, but before we unwrap this, let's get to be accessories. So first up is the paperwork. Now, in my case, because I have a cellular version with LTE I get a sim ejection tool with my paperwork. I also get a Quick Start, Guide Eileen.

The major features as well as a set of Apple stickers. Next up is a very familiar 12 watt power adapter. So, unlike the iPad Pro, this does not make the transition to USB see it's still using lightning. So anybody hopes for a full USB see transition. That's not going to happen this year, but regardless this iPad does support the faster charging speeds of USB 3.0 so again to the iPad and unwrapping it. The first thing, I know is where the way is how much darker this space gray is, and that's because this is basically the same space gray as the newest iPad Pro.

Now. If you compare this to space, cr?me of the old iPad Pro or the current iPad 9.7 inch, you can see it's quite a bit darker. You can see that much lighter color on the old iPad Pro, basically, who looked like silver, so I'm. Actually big fan of this change, there's also a gold and silver, but those are colors. We've seen before this is the first time we're seeing this space gray on this iPad before I.

Go in-depth with the iPad I just want to talk about today's sponsor LastPass. Now, if this is your first iPad, or you're, replacing an old well, the first things you might want to do is install LastPass the first app I install on all of my new devices. One of the biggest challenges of using so many devices is just keeping all those passwords synced together. So traditionally, every time I set up a new device I had to manually enter the passwords for all of my accounts, but with LastPass installed, it will automatically remember my password and autofill them into every app or website and because LastPass supports multiple platforms. I can use the exact same service on iOS and Android, because LastPass remembers everything for you.

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So as before, we have the volume controls in the sleep/wake power button right around the camera module toward the center. We have our dual microphones and because I have the cellular model, you'll see these antenna stripes around the top edge. So if you had the Wi-Fi model, you wouldn't see this small antenna strip at all. Those dual microphones also work with the m12 motion. Coprocessor for the Siri.

Wake up come, and so you can remotely command Siri hands-free, whether the iPad is plugged into power or not. Of course, we also have touch IDs so face. I'd still remains the iPhone & iPad Pro exclusive. Another quiet update for this iPad is ECM support. So if you get a version with cellular, you'll see a sim tray, but you may not have a sim in that tray at all and that's because we have built-in IOM support, so you can sign on with any carrier that supports the electronic sim and that's most of them in the US.

And although we don't have speakers at the top edge, we do have them at the again with darker grilles to match the darker space gray same with the insert for the Lightning connector I. Think the biggest selling point for the iPad and one of the reasons this is such a good value, is the ten point. Five inch display largely carried over from the iPad Pro, so we get the same specs here twenty to twenty-four by sixteen sixty-eight good for 264 pixels per inch or a retina resolution. This is a P three display so supports the same wide color gamut as the pros. This is also a true tone display, so it automatically adapts the color temperature or the white balance of the display to the ambient lighting in the room and, more importantly, compared to the nine point, seven iPads.

This display is fully laminated to the glass, so there is no air gap between the display and the glass. The only thing missing from the iPad Pro is the pro motion technology. So that's a 120 Hertz refresh rate and said we have a conventional 60, Hertz refresh rate I. Don't think that's a big deal. Of course, you save a lot of the money by going this route and said that going for the iPad Pro, but you still get most of the benefits of the iPad Pro display that used to cost a lot more also carried over from the iPad Pro is support for two accessories: the first generation Apple Pencil and the smart Keyboard.

So, although this isn't the cheapest iPad with Apple Pencil support, it is the cheapest iPad and the cheapest Apple device with a physical keyboard, which I think is another big selling point. But of course that's an extra expense that you have to purchase, but this iPad is perfectly sized for a full keyboard. Now this keyboard works with a smart connector on the edge of the iPad, so that provides direct electrical connection to the iPad without the need for a battery or Bluetooth, and it folds up really compactly and is easy to carry around now I mentioned. This is both an upgraded and downgraded version of the iPad Pro now. Let me explain what I mean by that.

For the most part, the CPU is the only upgrade here. So we go from an eight ten to an eight twelve, so that's a significant performance improvement, so that means this iPad is much more future-proof. So this should support iOS releases far beyond what the iPad Pro 10.5 inch would and there's a few other improvements, including some radios, which gives us Bluetooth 5.0, replacing 4.2 from the old iPad Pro, and although we get an upgraded CPU, we do downgrade from four gigs to three gigs of RAM. Again, not something I. Think most people are going to know this, especially without promotion.

So I don't think this is a big loss. We also lose the quad speakers which had two speakers on the top and bottom or left and right side depending on how you look at it and unfortunately that means audio is annoyingly lopsided when you're using this in landscape orientation. The camera system has also been downgraded, so we lose the LED flash, and we also go from a 12 megapixel camera to 8 megapixels with a 5 element instead of 6 element lenses, and we lose optical image stabilization. This also means we lose 4k, video recording the best. We can do is 1080p HD video, but we do get slow-motion up to 240 frames per second.

The FaceTime HD camera was not downgraded. However, it's still 7 megapixels, with 1080p HD video, now I think the camera on the back of an iPad is fairly low priority. So I, don't think it's a big loss to have a lesser camera on this iPad compared to the iPad Pro, especially if you're saving some money, but even that it's still a pretty decent camera as well, especially with a new 812 image signal processors. So it's able to deliver pretty solid images anyway, now in the interest of full disclosure and because I couldn't resolve this before I made this video there are some manufacturing defects on my iPad Air. So if you look around the antenna stripes, there are dimples on either side.

I didn't do this. This came out of the box like this I will take it back to Apple and hopefully get a result, if not I'll make sure to let you know, although the baseline iPad is a great value at 3:29, you can often get it much cheaper than that. It's hard to ignore the fact that it looks and feels like a much older piece of hardware. It's also running an older chip. Furthermore, it doesn't have the vibrant, DCI, p3 or true tone display technology of the iPad Air, and again it's not Jamie to the glass, so it definitely looks lower grade now.

In many ways, I think this iPad Air is the first time we finally get a device that is worth upgrading to, especially if you're, using any iPad, with a nine point, seven-inch screen when they drop the iPad Air for the current iPad. It really was sort of a retrograde update, nice processor, but the hardware kind of took a step back, so it became a very unappealing update, but with the iPad Air three, we finally get an update. That makes a sense for previous customers, so it's nice to have something that slots between the boring baseline iPad and the overly expensive iPad Pro. The iPad Pro does use a different 812 chips than the iPad Air : 812 X in the Tax 8 cores. Instead of six cores on the CPU and seven cores versus four cores on the GPU, so you're still going to see very different performance, but the thing to keep in mind is that the OS is basically identical on both of them now.

The reason I think this is the best iPad value is that you get everything you need and nothing you don't. So you don't have to pay for the things you don't really need, but you get all the right priorities. You get a fantastic large display with the latest processor and a nice compact bezel with a screen. That's just large enough for a full-size keyboard and at one pound it happens to be the lightest iPad. You can buy something and I really like the iPad Air.

It's just the right amount of hardware for the OS I think the iPad Pro is really pushing the OS with that extravagant hardware and I think the baseline iPad is just overdue for a major update. Alright guys hope you enjoyed this look at the new iPad Air. If you did, please give this video a like to. Let me know, and I'll see you again in my next video.

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