12.11 Ipad Air: Apple still the best on board - Today it

long time it was virtually impossible to compete with Apple in the tablet market. But little by little have competitors like Sony, Samsung and Amazon stolen market share, and received much praise for their tablet. Now Apple avoid what happened to the smartphone market, where they must look thoroughly overtaken by Android. Here comes the new Ipad Air into.

Design
Ipad Air has the same screen size as previous iPad, namely 9.7 inches measured diagonally. However, the external dimensions have changed somewhat. It has been 1.5 centimeter lower and two millimeters thinner. This marked more than you think when you get it in your hands. In addition, the weight is reduced by 193 grams, which really felt. Especially if one of those people who likes to read e-book on the bed and occasionally fall asleep with the iPad in the weather.

Ipad Air have the same shapes as the iPad Mini, that little straighter edges instead of pillow shape to the earlier big iPad. The downside of this is that the covers and cases from past no longer fit.

screen is as always very good, with very high resolution and good brightness.

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Two millimeters is saved in the thickness. And they actually feel.

User
Ipad Air comes with new IOS 7 operating system. The new version comes more into its own on the iPad than on the iPhone, in my opinion. The new items notification center and control center is more user friendly in this format. Especially notification center, which dragged down from the top of the screen is very appropriate. Especially at work.

Many apps wants foothold in the notification center, so make sure it is not too much there.

What I miss most on Ipad Air is enough fingerprint reader. After spending Iphone 5s only a short period seems old fashioned to have to tap into a security code.

Apple has recently released free mobile versions of its productivity tools Pages (word processing), Numbers (spreadsheets), and Keynote (presentations), which makes it even easier to use Ipad to typical PC tasks.

Mostly works Ipad Air just like previous iPads, but I think the system flows better than ever. Apple has not always had the fastest user interface, but now there is nothing to criticize there anymore.

Switching between apps is also much faster thanks to a new processor in the iPad will be far easier to run multiple apps simultaneously and switch between them as developers update their apps for the new processor.

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Had Ipad Air had the fingerprint reader was far more assured their information.

Multimedia and Games
According to Apple Ipad itself is the world’s most popular mobile game platform. With Ipad Airs performance and display quality begins to seriously approach the experiences that can be compared to consoles and PC games.

Movies also looks very good on the iPad Air. They draw a lot of battery, especially because you often have to turn up the brightness on the screen to get all the details, but the experience is very good all the way up to full HD quality.

A point Ipad could be improved is to provide an equalizer for sound that cuts across applications and services. Today’s equalizer only works on music stored on your iPad. All other sound can not be adjusted. Streamed audio is as common as the traditional playing today.

front camera has been given an update, resulting in better quality in video calls if you have a fast Internet connection.

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So much less the “footprint” for Ipad Air compared to Ipad 4

Conclusion
Ipad Air is the best iPad Apple has ever made – it was almost entirely lacking. Many people would probably say that it is the best tablet ever made too. It is certainly not far away.

Tablet market is like before, with more and better competitors. But would you bet on a safe quality product, and do not mind the price, simply buy Ipad Air.

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Design 6	Compact and easy to be nearly 10 inches. Sparkling good display. Magnetic covers also works very well. Missing dog fingerprint reader as Iphone 5s received.
Multimedia 5	large screen and high resolution are key features of Ipad Air as media center. Very good for movies, photos and games. sound quality is also good, with several adjustments when playing recorded audio. No options for adjusting the sound played over the net.
Performance 5	battery is not what it once was in earlier models. But it still keeps for several days with regular use. system fluidly than ever. The new processor allows a new level of processing of multiple tasks and applications simultaneously, in addition to pure performance.
price 3	Koster from 4090 million to 6490 million. The top model has the 128GB storage and can kind of justify the price, but the cheapest models are often considerably more expensive than the competition.
use 5	As mentioned I miss fingerprint reader for quick and easy recovery, but beyond this Ipad Air predictably easy to use. new control center and the new notification center works especially well at work.

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23/30	Lightweight and compact Good battery Good on multimedia	Miss fingerprint reader Should supported usb

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