IPad Air review. The best tablet

Honestly, it was originally a review iPad Air I planirova. Waiting Mini with Retina. But when the stores appeared Mini, «cuddle" nobody gave. Do you want to buy - take it, get out of the box, and even more so to look at it until it is necessary.
As a result, not waiting when the Mini with Retina hits the shelves, rather than shopping stores, I decided to buy the Air, because by and large, stopped before a size of the device and the difference in the display.

Appearance

If you know what it looks like iPad mini (both generations) - Do you know how looks iPad Air. device frame have become, the tablet itself threw a couple of millimeters in thickness, and at the same time has lowered the weight. It also should be such iPad. In his hands is good, and in one - even better (now the tablet comfortable to hold with one hand, without feeling great discomfort). It would seem: 200 grams - and what effect. But for a mobile device - 200 gram is very noticeable. Thus, iPad Air is 9.7 inches, only 100 grams heavier than the Nexus 7 last year, with a diagonal of 7 inches.

In my possession was a model Space Gray colors, which replaced the usual Black. It looks, I want to tell you, great. Now, looking at the two color solutions, I definitely vote for "Servais space" rather conservative black.
Headphones included, unfortunately, it was not, and is not.

Display

He has not changed. The dimensions are the same - 9.7 inches diagonally and a resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels. Now the market is littered with various "pills" or similar sizes and resolutions, and even Samsung released a model with a resolution of 2560 × 1600 pixels. The question "Why?" There is clearly rhetorical.

But the absence of external differences are not talking about their absence. Oddly enough, but the display - one of the components that helped iPad Air to become truly "air". Now the display is made of IGZO technology. Without going into depth technical descriptions, we can only note that this technology has allowed reduce the thickness of the screen, to increase the contrast and color reproduction, as well as reduce power usage.

Oxide of indium, gallium and zinc (Engl. Indium gallium zinc oxide, abbr. IGZO) - semiconductor material that can be used as a channel for the transparent thin-film transistors. These replacement materials can be an amorphous silicon active layer for LCD screens. The electron mobility of the material in the forty-fold higher than that of amorphous silicon, which allows reduce the pixel size (for much higher resolution than the HDTV format) or RTT screen.

Display, this technology is not yet as common. Now only Sharp and LG are willing to supply such components, but soon will have to be tightened and Samsung.

Performance

The new iPad Air is equipped with a 64-bit processor A7 - almost the same as in the iPhone 5s. The difference - in megahertz. The tablet runs at a frequency of 1.4 GHz - a hundred more than a smartphone. Memory "on board" remained the same - 1GB.

Despite the fact that technical specifications are not outstanding, tablet, as is usually the case in devices from Cupertino to work quickly thanks to the symbiosis of hardware and software. While we can not say that speed straight rolls, as are no games or applications that use the 64-bit architecture. Exactly how nothing can be said about the M7 co-processor, which processes the data received from the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass.

Stand-alone operation

Situation interesting: kind and the display made by the new technology, and the co-processor is added, and the work all the same. It happened that way because for the sake of lightness and thickness, had to sacrifice battery., Battery capacity has decreased from 42.5 to 32.4 watts to make the tablet even thinner · h Here's optimization.

Someone may say that it is better to not touch the battery and make more while working without a network connection, but, honestly, 10 hours - a very good indicator

accessories

Apple offers two traditional "brand" accessory, Smart Cover and Smart Case - Cover and Case for iPad Air. If the first has not undergone any changes, except for the number of faces to bend (three instead of four), the Smart Case got really better.

Case is now made from aniline leather, so the touch became more comfortable, disappeared a problem opening the cover. In previous versions it was not convenient to hook the screen each time a closing cover of the new Smart Case is no such problem. Grani also reduced from four to three pieces. Sami Cover and case are available in six different colors.

Problems

As such, they are, but all are treated by the software update. Errors themselves quite banal - periodic "crashes» Safari, some problems with the animation and infrequent glitches with the change of orientation of the screen. The rest - there is no problem that definitely pleases. We are waiting for iOS update that would correct these nedorazmueniya.

instead of conclusions

Uniquely, the tablet got a good update and the logical continuation. Its comfortable to hold in one hand, he became more productive, and have not lost in autonomy. Moreover, iPad Air should now be the only (large) tablet company. Its 9.7-inch ancestors must submit an application for the dismissal. They have served to users, but after the release of Air, it's time to retire.