After announcing the iPhone 6 and 6+ last month, Apple hosted another event to release their newest product yesterday; The new iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, and a 27inch 5k Display iMac.
iPad Air 2- (0.61mm, 0.96pound)
18% Thinner than the previous generation of iPad air. If you compare side by side to the first generation of iPad 1, two of iPad Air2 is equal to one iPad 1.
Powered by A8X chip (64bit, 2.5x faster, 40% faster CPU)
10 Hours battery life as usual
9.7inch display with 2048 x 1536 resolution
Anti-reflective coating (Better viewing under direction sunlight or viewing at any angle)
Touch ID
8MP iSight Camera (Slow-mo, Time lapse and 1080HD video.)
A whole new wireless band.
iOS 8.1
5 Thing i like about iPad Air 2
To me the weight of a tablet matters a lot. Since lots of hands on video state that this is the lightest tablet they held by far. (I would choose this over iPad Mini 3)
A whole new faster processor chips. Which is kind of an expected upgrade but hey, who doesn't like it ?
Touch ID is my most fav feature. Unlocking your ipad or buying stuff on iPad by using your thumb? such a easy way to improve the experience of using iPad.
Faster Wifi and LTE band. This make streaming on iPad a hell of lot of enjoyment. (Netfilx, Hulu Plus)
Battery life- Still as good as before despite having a faster and powerful chip.
iPad Mini 3 - With Touch ID
This is a disappointing upgrade. It's basically iPad Mini 2 plus the whole new Touch ID. Period.
iPad Air 2 or iPad Mini 3?
Don't get me wrong, i am not saying iPad mini 3 is bad. It's still the Mini size that people like about it. However, The processing power is still the same as usual, hence i would rather go for iPad Air 2 - With just a $100 more, for a faster and a more features product, why not?
iPad Air 2 starting price at (US $499) while iPad Mini 3 at (US $399)
Hands On Video for iPad Air 2
iMac (2014) 27Inch and 5k Display
27inch display at 5210x2880 Pixel (14.7Million Pixels)
3.5GHz - 4.5GHz quad-core I5 and I7 processor.
Turbo Boost up to 20x faster. (For rendering videos and mulit-tasking)
AMD Graphic card with 3.5 TeraFlops of graphic computing.
Up to 3TB fusion drive
Thunderbolt 2
OS x Yosemite
I have never used before an iMac, but judging from the specs, it a powerful beast to use.
All i know is that with the turbo boost and their latest processor, it makes rendering videos, compressing sounds and etc much faster. This iMac target audience is for the "Pro" which they really use it very intensively. The price for this beast is at USD $2799. I guess i would just get a Macbook pro if i were to start my own short film. Nevertheless this is definitely a great iMac to have.
iMac advertisement Video
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iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, and the amazing 5K 21 inchOlivier Cheah
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Apple wwdc was held on 2nd june 2014, at this event they introduced two new software. Mac OS yosemite and iOS8
We shall focus on iOS 8 for now. I kind of like the speaker for this event, he would crack some jokes which lighten up the mood.
So lets what are the new features? We shall cover what i think is the most useful update :)
iOS8 is the start of "customization" within the OS itself, it introduced their widget, 3rd party keyboard.
List of what application extensibility will be affected
Extensibility
In a simple term, your app will be more interactive than before. You can select the action you want take right within the notification.
For example, if you are bidding a guitar on ebay, you can pin in to ur notification and receive the updated price and u can outbid people just by tapping "bid" in the NC(notification)
Another example is vscocamp, you can select photo filter by taking a picture with your stock/default camera and select "vscocam" within the setting and it will bring up the flitet that you can use from that application. There are many things that developer can do with this new features! Awesome future for the software.
Lastly we are going to have our 3rd party keyboard! Ohyes!
Notification centre
This is one example how notification will be affected with extensibility. It is so much useful now.
Spotlight
As you can see from the picture, now when you use spotlight to search stuff, it will act like "google"
Be it a application, movies, information, contacts, emails and etc, you can use your spotlight to search for what you want now. How easy is that???
Appstore
As you can see, apple now start the bundling system. Hopefully i can see my favorite game bundle in the store for me to purchase next time!
HealthKit
This is something like samsung Shealth, but to make this work, you need to have a 3rd party product. For example gearfit?(i not sure of the product)
Whatever information the product that you wear gathered, it will be recorded into healthkit where you can have one look at all the information about your health. They are working with major hospital so that they can transfer the information into your kit.
Messaging and fav contact
This two pictures show him demostrating the quick reply function (i think it is very smooth and easy to use. People do not need to jailbreak to get this function anymore)
This will be handy in many case, u can call, message or facetime them just at your multitasking mode.
Another familiar feature (whatsapp and telegram) now they have include it into the stock messaging app! Recording video or voice message.
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Other than all the visible features, one more feature that i want talk about called continuity where uses the wireless connection to connect all apple devices.
Handoff
-for example you are editing a document using your ipad, and when you are reaching your iMac, u can put down your iPad and click on the continuity button and the document u editing just now will be there on your iMac!
Phone calls
- if someone called you, and your phone is being left somewhere else in your house while you r using ur Mac, u can simply just use your Mac to answer the call now.
Message
-blue bubble and green bubble text msg where they are seperated last time, between iphone user and non iphone user messages, which ipad couldnt receive your green bubble. Now with this feature, they allows you to receive it! So you can use your ipad to send out a normal text messages
Conclusion
- iOS8 is not a very big change, but it improved a lot of the features in the software, it will defintely benefit both user and developer! They are still ton of features that i didnt cover in this blog. Be sure to check out :
