Apple iPad Air 2 - now you know

Apple was announced model iPad Air 2 on 2014 October

Communication

This model supporting bands EDGE, GPRS, 2G, 3G and LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 13(700), 17(700), 18(800), 19(800), 20(800), 25(1900), 26(850), 28(700), 29(700), 38(2600), 39(1900), 40(2300), 41(2500) - A1567. Performance is about HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A Cat4 150/50 Mbps, EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps, GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO.

GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS (3G/LTE model only), USB 2.0, proprietary reversible connector, WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, hotspot, Bluetooth 4.0, A2DP, EDR.

Additional info

Specific features on the model are - Siri natural language commands and dictation - iCloud cloud service - MP3/WAV/AAX+/AIFF/Apple Lossless player - MP4/H.264 player - Audio/video/photo editor - Document editor.

Let's talk a bit about battery - it is most frequent asked thing on device in nowdays Non-removable Li-Po 7340 mAh battery (27.62 Wh).

Another important features on device are sensors, so this device got Fingerprint (front-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, compass, barometer.

About camera on Apple iPad Air 2

This time Apple designers decided to put 8 mega pixels sensor and aperture is f/2.4 and focal length 31mm. Few another additional features are autofocus. Video recording on main camera of this device is available with 1080p@30fps, 720p@120fps, HDR, stereo sound rec variants. This is not bad for instance one of available devices at the moment, Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Duos TV, 8 million pixels camera is installed in Apple iPad Air 2. Few another extra properties are autofocus, LED flash. Video camera on main camera of Apple iPad Air 2 is available with 1080p@30fps variants

In iPad Air 2 Apple engineers decided to empower with 8 million pixels front sensor and hole is f/2.2 with focal 31mm. Some another additional traits are 1., , , 720p@30fps, face detection, HDR, FaceTime over Wi-Fi or Cellular.

Faster and smarter?

Triple-core 1.5 GHz Typhoon core was designed for this model, having chipset Apple A8X, Considering iPad Air 2 category graphics on this phone is PowerVR GXA6850 (octa-core graphics).

Capability on this device is 16/32/64/128 GB, 2 GB RAM, no microSD supported, operating system is iOS 8.1, upgradable to iOS 11.1.

in your hands

width and height 169.5 and 240 mm, in the same tame Apple made very thick device, it is 6.1 millimeters.

2 colors are available for this model, space gray, silver as well as gold.

Screen on iPad Air 2 maiden using tehnology LED-backlit IPS LCD, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, at a moment iPad Air 2 had screen larger size than 92% of devices in mobile market, having 9.7 inches, 291.4 cm2 (~71.6% screen-to-body ratio) screen having resolution 1536 x 2048 pixels proportions are 4:3, with density 264 pixels per 1 inch multitouch is supported, about screen protection they can mention that used scratch-resistant glass, oleophobic coating.