iPad Air 2022 could get a huge redesign — but there’s a catch

iPad Air 2020 could get a huge redesign — simply at that place's a catch

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Apple'due south iPad Air 2020 might not come up out this yr, with the fourth-generation Air actually coming in early on 2021 according to prominent leaker Komiya.

The leaker tweeted that the next iPad Air will come up out in March of next yr. That might be disappointing to some people wanting a new mid-range Apple tablet now, but the iPad Air is expected to come with a suite of upgrades that should make the wait worth it.

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Near notably, the new iPad Air will ditch the rather archaic design of the electric current model, which finer got its aesthetic from the original iPad Pro. Instead, the next iPad Air will adopt the design of the current iPad Pro 2020, with slim bezels and a design that's pretty much all screen with no dwelling house push.

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Komiya said the new iPad Air volition also make apply of Apple tree's A14 chip, the same system-on-a-fleck the iPhone 12 is expected to have; the leaker did suggest information technology could have an upgraded A14X chip but then corrected themselves. It will too take a quad-speaker design like the iPad Pro too as a USB-C port and an 11-inch Liquid Retina Display.

It's predicted to come with either 128GB, 256GB, or 512GB of storage space, though Komiya isn't completely certain about that. Support for the Magic Keyboard and the latest Apple tree Pencil is also expected.

Unlike the iPad Pro with its dual rear-camera array and LiDAR sensor, the adjacent iPad Air will only have a single rear camera. That should proceed the cost of the iPad Air down, with the tablet predicted to cost around $649.

In short, the iPad Air is shaping upwardly to be a pretty solid upgrade over the electric current tablet. But Komiya's prediction of an early on 2021 release is an interesting one equally Apple leaker Jon Prosser has claimed a new iPad will exist announced in September alongside the Apple Watch 6 through a printing release.

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However, Prosser doesn't country whether this volition exist the iPad mini half-dozen, the new iPad Air, or an upgraded iPad Pro. And so Komiya's prediction could still be on the money. We'll just have to expect and come across what Apple pulls out of the bag in September.

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