iPad Air (2019) Review - The One to Skip? By Brandon Butch

What's up guys, my name is Brandon, and today we're going to be taking a look at the brand new 2019 third generation iPad Air- and this is gonna- be the first iPad Air to be released by Apple since 2014, so yeah, it's been 5 years since we've seen a new iPad Air. So it's going to be interesting to dig in and see what this thing is all about. So you can see the packaging is pretty traditional. We have an iPad on its side here on the front. We have iPad Air on the sides, and you can see there. I got the 64 gigabyte model with Wi-Fi, and this is going to run you $4.99, but if you want to go up to 256 gigabytes, that's going to run you 649 and if you did want to have LTE on this as well, that is going to cost you a little extra. It's going to be 649 for the 64 gigabyte and 779 for the 256 gigabyte ISO.

Let's just go ahead and get into the unboxing. We have this very easy tab to peel right here. Unlike the air pods, which I unboxed yesterday was pretty difficult to unbox those guys, but this will be a lot easier, so we could just rip off the plastic just like so, and we're just going to go ahead and take it out of the box here, get the top off right there, and you can see there is the screen of the iPad Air. It is in plastic. We're going to set that to the side for just a moment, and you can see inside, we do get a lightning cable, so we don't use USB-C, like we do on the 20:18 iPad Pro we do still have lightning.

We do also have our little pamphlet here, and we do also have our wall charger right here. Of course, inside the pamphlet, we will find some Apple stickers if you guys still collect those and put those on things. We do get the Apple stickers here with the iPad Air, along with your little get started guide as we're going to put all of this stuff up and then take a look now at the 2019 iPad Air I. So, let's begin by taking the plastic off right here, gotta love the sound of that. Let's go and boot this guy right on up ice.

We are on the setup screen, let's go and set this up and man, it's been a while, since I've used an Apple product with a physical home button like we have here, so let's go ahead and set this up, and then we get our data and privacy here, let's go and continue, and then we get touch ID. So we do have the latest generation of touch ID. So it should be very quick and very accurate here on the iPad Air third generation, all right, very quick and easy just as expected, let's go ahead and continue, and we're not going to restore from a backup we're just going to set up as a brand-new iPad we're not going to do iCloud just, yet we're not gonna sign in just yet and of course we do have the true tone display here with the new iPad Air you can see. This is what it looks like with it on without true tone. It would look like this, so true ton does make it look a little more realistic and not as blue.

Let's go ahead and continue to continue, and we're just going to continue in speed right through these and there we go. We are now on the home screen of the brand-new iPad Air, and it looks like we may have a software update. Now that's finished. Setting up so let's go and see what software we are all just curious. So we are on 12.2, so we're on the very latest software which this just came out. So it's pretty interesting to see that we're on twelve points you here on the iPad Air I.

So now, let's talk about some of these specs on the 2019 iPad Air. You know we're going to compare it to some other iPads as well, and I'm gonna. Let you guys know if I think that it's worth buying or upgrading to so. First, we have a ten point. Five inches laminated display here with a resolution of 16 68 by 22 24 at 265 PPI, and we can compare that to the iPad Air second generation, which had a nine point.

Seven inch display with a resolution of 1536 by 2048 at 264 PPI, so there's only a very marginal difference when it comes to the pixels per inch. But the overall resolution is definitely better here on the 2019 iPad Air and plus we have the p3 wide color gamut, and we also have the true tone display, which I showed you and these set up. So the display on this third-generation iPad Air is going to be noticeably better than the previous generation. And when we look at this new iPad Air, it's really hard to not see the 2017 iPad Pro in this, because it's very similar in the looks department. We have the same exact ten point: five inch laminated display with the exact same resolution of 16 68 by 22 24 at 265, PPI, and also we do have true tone as well.

Now we do get some additional features like the 120 Hertz refresh rate on the iPad Pro, which is going to be much better than it is here on the 2019 iPad Air, but as far as just the overall display and resolution, it's exactly the same and of course we have the same physical home button. We have the Lightning port and all that fun stuff, and while we're on that topic, we may as well show you guys around the device. So you can see the bottom here. We have two speakers down at the bottom. Now these aren't going to be near as good as the 2018 iPad Pro.

Of course, that's the other iPad that I have currently, but we can see, we do have the Lightning port there as well. Of course, we have the adapter on the left-hand side up top, we have our home button on the side. We have our volume rockers. Of course, we have our front-facing camera on the front. We do also have a very tiny rear-facing camera back here now, of course, nothing is really too exciting.

On the exterior of this iPad Air I mean we still have the big bezels around the edges. It doesn't really look very modern. We still have the physical home button again, we don't have a great camera on the back at all. It's only an 8 megapixel camera that can't even shoot in 4k. It only shoots 1080p, but the inside is where things actually get interesting with the iPad Air.

So even if you're coming from a 20-17 iPad Pro, you will see some improvements on the inside. The internals, you're going to see a speed, improvement and things like that, because we do have Apple's brand new, powerful, a12 Bionic chip, which is a beast and performs well even in the most CPU intensive situations, and I must say that the iPad Air is a beast when it comes to playing games as well. I even played fortnight I played pub G already on this iPad Air and I must say that it performs better than I expected. It performs very similar to my 2018 12 point 9-inch, iPad Pro, which is really saying something. Now.

We do also have three gigabytes of RAM, which is 1 gigabyte more than the second generation iPad Air, but one gigabyte less than the know similar 2017 iPad Pro I'm gonna. Compare this a lot to the 2017 iPad Pro, just because I think it's a very similar product at a very similar price point now, I know most of you guys, probably don't take very many pictures with your iPad at all, especially not on the front-facing camera, but I still need to talk about. I still need to compare it. So, on the front we have a 7 megapixel selfie camera, which is a huge upgrade over the second generation err which had a measly 1.2 megapixel camera. It just sounds terrible, just saying it, and you know it's terrible when the 7 megapixel camera here on the iPad Air is terrible itself.

It's like 6 times better, but it's still terrible, but anyways on the rear is the same 8 megapixel camera that we've seen on most iPads recently, except for the iPad Pro models and the quality of the rear facing camera is the same story. Furthermore, it's not really anything great! Nothing too impressive, nothing you're going to want to post on Instagram or anything like that. Now, maybe a little early to make this statement, but I just have to say it I think the 2017 iPad Pro 10.5 inch is a better buy than the 2019 iPad Air I mean you get everything you get here with the air, but with the addition of the 120 Hertz refresh rate on the 2017 iPad Pro, which actually makes a huge difference in day-to-day usage. You also get a better 12 megapixel camera on the back with optical image, stabilization and the ability to shoot in 4k, none of which you can do here on the iPad Air. You will also get better battery life, and you can also use NFC for payments and whatnot and, like I said you can pick up a 20-17 iPad Pro for probably cheaper than you would buy the 2019 iPad Air 4 and the Apple Store.

Now one of the things I was most disappointed about this new 2019 iPad Air and same with the 2019 iPad Mini as well, is that you can't use the second-generation Apple Pencil. Why Apple? Why would you release the second-generation Apple Pencil and then six months later release products that aren't even compatible with it? You have to go back to the old original Apple Pencil. It just makes no sense. I really wish. You could use this on the new iPads now I know this isn't really a fair comparison or anything, but I just wanted to show you guys the difference between the 2018 iPad Pro the twelve point, nine inches and the new 2019 ten point: five-inch iPad Air.

You can see the big difference in the bezels. Of course, they don't have the home button here, and you can see, of course, the much bigger display. So if you did want to spend about $300 more, you can go for the iPad Pro I personally. Think it's worth it, but, of course that's not in the budget of a lot of people. Now, if you want to get a brand-new tablet in 2019, but you don't want to spend more than $500, you can get the iPad Air, but I personally would rather get the 2017 iPad Pro, which again you can get for nearly the same price or even cheaper.

Now, of course, the device overall won't be as fast because we do have the a12 bionic here and the iPad Air, but you get a lot of the additional features that are not going to be included with the iPad Air. Again, like the 120 Hertz refresh rate, you have the better cameras, you have the better battery life. You could also use NFC for payments and things like that. But if none of those things matter to you, then of course the iPad Air will still be a great Buy I'm just trying to let you guys know what I personally would do and once again keep in mind that you will not be able to use the Apple Pencil with the 2017 iPad Pro or lead 2019 iPad Air. You can only use this with the 2018 iPad Pro so anyways guys there.

You have it that is the 2019 iPad err, I think it is a great product to have. Of course, there are a lot of different iPads in the lineup right now, so it will be a pretty tough decision, but if you have any questions about which iPad you should buy, if you want to know my opinion, leave a comment down below and I will get back to you, but if you guys did enjoy this, video I would appreciate it. If you give it a thumbs up, of course, make sure to subscribe, but we'll be doing another more long-term review on the iPad Air here as well. I will also be uploading. A video on the new iPad Mini later today, as well so stay tuned for that video, but anyways guys thanks you for watching the video, and I'll see you soon.

Source : Brandon Butch