Apple released two new iPad products in the early morning of October 17, Beijing time, as rumored, namely the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. The iPad Air 2 is a major upgrade, which has loaded almost all the top accessories that can be used, while the iPad mini 3 is not sincere enough. What are their upgrades? Let's see:

Overlord king - iPad Air 2

The iPad has always been the "leader" of tablet computers, and the iPad Air is the top series of iPads. This time, the iPad Air 2 fully shows the air of the king, compared with the Nexus 9 released a day ago. The iPad Air 2 has greatly improved both in its appearance design and processor, and has added the popular Touch ID.

From the appearance, the design of the front panel and back cover of the iPad Air 2 has not changed much, but the body thickness has been reduced to 6.1 mm, and the weight has also been reduced to 437 grams, which is much lighter than the iPad Air. In terms of display screen, although it is still a 9.7-inch 2048 * 1536 resolution screen, the "full lamination" display screen, which we often call the full fit screen, is also used because it can make the body thinner.

In addition, because the thickness of the iPad body has been greatly reduced, the iconic lock key of the iPad no longer exists.

The iPad Air 2 uses a new A8X processor. Like the A8, it is made with a 20nm process and a 64 bit architecture. The CPU part, like the A8, is a dual core enhanced version of the Cyclone architecture. The "X" of the A8X is greatly enhanced on the GPU, which is 2.5 times that of the A7. This performance is enough to challenge Tegra K1. According to the model of PowerVR Series6XT, only the high-end six core GX6650 can achieve such powerful performance, and it is most likely the high-frequency version. But the Ram capacity that we care about is still inconclusive.

Adding Touch ID to the iPad Air 2 is almost a no brainer feature. Like the iPhone, it can use fingerprint identification to unlock and download securely in iBooks and App Store.

The iPad Air 2 has also made great improvements in the camera, upgrading the camera to 8 million pixels, supporting 120 slow motion videos, and panoramic photos with a maximum of 43 million pixels.

The iPad Air 2 also brings faster wireless networks. WiFi supports 802.11ac standard, with a speed of up to 866Mbps. The Cellular version supports LTE Cat. 4 technology with a speed of up to 150Mbps.

From the above new features, the upgrade of the iPad Air 2 is sincere. It is almost impeccable in terms of shape, performance and function. It is believed that it will be very attractive to users who like large screen iPads.

In terms of price, the iPad Air 2 is the same as the iPad Air when it was just released. The domestic quotation (WiFi version): 16G 3588 yuan, 64G 4288 yuan, 128G 4988 yuan. The reservation starts on October 17. Like the iPhone 6 series, the iPad Air 2 also skips the 32G capacity directly.

Unlimited iPad mini 3

Compared with the various upgrades of the iPad Air 2, the iPad mini 3 appears to be "chicken ribs". The iPad Air 2's ultra-thin body, new processors, faster wireless links and cameras have not appeared on the iPad mini 3. Compared with the iPad mini 2, the most noteworthy thing about the iPad mini 3 is the addition of the Touch ID module and the "Tuhaojin" color matching

The appearance of the iPad mini 3 is almost the same as that of the iPad mini 2. The only difference is that it adds the Touch ID module and gold.

The iPad mini 3 will use the A7 processor, which is slower than the A8 of the iPhone 6 series, not to mention the A8X of the iPad Air 2.

Like the iPad Air 2, the iPad mini 3 skips 32G, with only 16G, 64G and 128G capacities. In terms of price, the 16G iPad mini 3 has a price difference of 690 yuan compared with the iPad mini 2. What is added is the fingerprint recognition function, which highlights the high cost performance of the iPad mini 2 after the price reduction.