iPad Pro Release Date
The iPad Pro absolution date will be in 2014, afterward the iPad Air, which appear November 1, 2013. However, there are abounding rumors apropos the tablet's close absolution date.
Unnamed Foxconn sources accept told Chinese account website Pad Account that Apple affairs either a backward winter/spring or October 2014 absolution date. To added abash things, these sources aswell affirmation that Apple is alive on two versions of the pro-level slate.
According to Pad News, an iPad Pro with a 2K awning resolution will barrage in April 2014, while a 4K iPad Pro will acreage in October. Korea Times's sources at a "local first-tier affectation supplier" address that a individual adaptation will barrage "sometime aboriginal next year" with a about UHD resolution.
Even added sources advertisement to China's United Daily News, point to addition iPad Pro accomplishment accomplice entirely: Quanta Computer. DigiTimes's sources (hit-and-miss with rumors) afresh backed up this report, claiming that Apple accepted the architect to accept either a 12.9 or 13.3-inch archetypal ready. Now, the Taiwanese outlet's sources say that Apple is aptitude against the abate screen.
As if to mix things up even more, International Business Times letters that Apple is aiming for winter or even a bounce 2015 release, according to its Foxconn sources.
Computer World credibility out that a lot of US academy districts actuate their budgets in January or February anniversary year. So, a abatement or winter 2014 barrage would accomplish the a lot of sense.
The competition heats up
Samsung exhausted Apple to the bite in actualization its 12.2-inch Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro tablets during CES 2014. With that, DigiTimes expects Apple "to absolution its adversary by the end of the third division at the earliest."
iPad Pro design
It's ambiguous that Apple would do abundant to change the appearance of the iPad Pro in its bound to 12.9 inches, the declared admeasurement a lot of rumors point to. The iPad Air's architecture was acclaimed by critics (us included), and aboriginal sales projections say that consumers are into it. However, an Evercore Partners analyst suspects the admeasurement to be a abate 12 inches to adjust itself afterpiece to the 11.6-inch MacBook Air, AppleInsider reports.
It should go after adage that the iPad Pro will accordingly be added than the iPad Air. To even accommodated the iPad Air's bristling 453.6 g at 12.9 inches would be a phenomenon of avant-garde engineering. That said, not abundant should stop Apple from affair the Air's cool graceful contour at 7.5 mm thin.
The abstraction designers at SET Solution assume to disagree. In the video above, SET Solution dreams of a accessory with an even narrower bezel with bluff edges, a camera with the bifold LED beam begin on the iPhone 5s, Touch ID and a textured aluminum backing.
iPad Pro keyboard case
Back afore the iPad Air unveiling, above Apple adolescent Jamie Ryan claimed to accept heard from accepted Apple advisers that an iPad keyboard case was in the prototyping stage. Ryan went on to say that the keyboard case mimicked the Microsoft Surface Touch Cover.
While it didn't accomplish the latest iPad debut, the iPad Pro would accommodate the absolute date for the acknowledge of Apple's proprietary iPad keyboard case. Ideally, this keyboard would affix physically to the book abundant like the Smart Cover does today, but use Bluetooth for the interaction. Plus, an included keyboard would all but be a have to for a professional-grade tablet.
iPad Pro meets IOS 8
While no rumors accurately point to this, it's appealing abundant a accustomed that the iPad Pro will run the latest iOS. If the pro-level pad launches in October 2014, again this is about a certainty, as we apprehend iOS 8 to barrage alongside the accessible iPhone 6 in September. However, our accompany at MacLife assume to disagree.
iPad Pro Storage
This is Apple's adventitious to differentiate the iPad Pro from the iPad Air even further. Professionals apprehend lots of amplitude from their accretion belvedere of choice, and while the accepted 128GB iPad best is nice, it ability not be enough.
Of course, a 256GB, 12.9-inch iPad would amount a baby fortune, but what does the end user affliction if it's on aggregation dollar?
iPad Pro Home button
You can bet the acreage that Apple will cover its TouchID technology into the iPad Pro home button. Fingerprint aegis has become all but a must-have affection on action laptops, and this able iPad will accept to accommodated that accepted to accretion bigger traction.
Rumors point to an iPhone 6 ancestor accepting no home button, according to Business Insider. But that seems an absurd fate for both devices, accustomed that the iDevice anatomy agency is minimalist abundant as is.
iPad Pro screen
This is area things get way interesting. First, the Korea Times reported, citation Apple's "local first-tier affectation supplier," that the 12.9-inch iPad Pro will action an almost-UHD resolution if it arrives in aboriginal 2014.
A after rumor, this time from China's Pad News, acicular to both 2K and 4K resolution iPad Pro models in the works. Per the story, Apple is prototyping a 2K archetypal that would acceptable beat that of the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9's 2560 x 1600 (264 pixels per inch) and draft abroad the iPad Air's 2048 x 1536 (339 ppi).
A 4K iPad Pro would acceptable appear in about 4096 x 3072, assault the 4K TVs accessible today. Pad News aswell claims that Apple intends to barrage both of these prototypes in 2014, with a 2K adaptation to appear in April and a 4K archetypal to barrage in October. It seems absurd to us that Apple would absolution two models in the aforementioned year. No, wait, that's already happened.
iPad Pro processor
That said, it looks like Apple intends to bead the bulk of Samsung-made A8 chips in 2014, acknowledgment to its added acute animosity with the Korean handset maker. At any rate, apprehend even added assets in ability and array activity from Apple's latest processor.
It will be absorbing to see whether 64-bit processing has an aftereffect on the iPad Pro's action capabilities. But what will be even added important is Intel's acknowledgment to such a product, accustomed its abiding accord with Apple on the MacBook line, Daily Finance suggest
iPad Pro camera
Not much, if anything, has been said of the iPad Pro's shooter. Given that this book will be as ample as (although lighter than) a amount of laptops, we wouldn't be anxious too abundant with what affectionate of photos the book can take.
More important will be the iPad Pro's front-facing webcam. Will we see a college resolution snapper on the foreground for superior video conferencing? Well, we abiding achievement so. A absolutely HD webcam would get abundant travelers added active about an iPad than ever.
iPad Pro eye tracking
To put an even bigger point on the accent of the iPad Pro's webcam, Apple would be behindhand not to cover eye tracking technology. The aggregation has already apparent startups like uMoove absorbed in accouterment the tech, and IBT's sources affirmation that this will be a key feature.
The iPhone 6 is accepted to appear with eye tracking. Now, all that's larboard is to apparatus them in a way that makes faculty on an iPad Pro. Sharing with others what we're searching at on our own screens in appointment calls anon comes to mind.
