In the early morning of March 9, Beijing time, Apple held a 2022 spring new product launch conference and officially released a new iPad Air tablet. There are five colors: space gray, pink, purple, blue, and starlight. The 64GB WiFi version is priced at 4399 yuan, the 5G cellular data version is priced at 5499 yuan, the 256GB WiFi version is priced at 5499 yuan, and the 5G cellular data version is priced at 6599 yuan.
The iPad Air 2022 features a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display screen with P3 color gamut and peak brightness of up to 500nit. Still using the border embedded TouchID fingerprint recognition, the interface is replaced by a USB-C interface, which is twice as fast as the previous generation of data transmission. The front lens is 12 megapixels and supports the character center function, which can keep the character in the center position at all times during video calls. Since then, all iPad products currently on sale have a character center function. The iPad Air 2022 also supports the Apple Pencil and the Magic Keyboard.
The biggest selling point of iPad Air 2022 is that it is equipped with M1 chip, compared to the previous generation of A14 Bionic chip, the M1 chip of the 8-core CPU is 60% faster than the previous generation, the 8-core graphics processor is up to 2 times faster, and the 16-core neural network engine makes the machine learning speed greatly improved, bringing more intelligent and efficient processing power.
The iPad Air 2022 will open for pre-order at 9 p.m. on March 11 and will go on sale on March 18.