Apple iPad Air 3 Review (2019) By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review and this is the 2019 iPad Air 3 from Apple. So the good news here is that the middle, the meat of the lineup is back for their sort of 10 inches, basically size, $500 iPad. So before we were stuck with either the $329 basic budget. iPad that didn't have a laminated display. Wasn't the prettiest to look at, and an older CPU are going all the way up to the $799 starting price 11-inch iPad Pro, so our air 3 is back still 6.1 millimeters thin weighing about a pound with or without LTE 4G. That's up to you up to gigabit speeds for that now we're looking at now.

So as ever, the iPad Air still starts at $499. That gets you 64 gigs of storage there, just like with the iPad Mini 3, there's no 128 gig option. You have to go straight up to 256 as the other option. Some 256 gigs of storage is gonna, cost you another $150 up happily for a lot of people. You're streaming your video and your music you're not storing a lot of stuff on your iPad.

So hopefully 64 gigs will do you. It goes up to six hundred and twenty-nine dollars if you wanted, with Wi-Fi plus 4G LTE cellular and that's gigabit, which is awesome sauce right there. If you want the GPS as always with Apple's iPads, you have to get the cellular model to get a GPS. Otherwise, you have Wi-Fi location services and that's it like the pro models. This one has the smart connector on the side.

So if you want to use the keyboard folio you can, that ones is $159, and it supports the Apple Pencil yay like it seems every iPad does now it's the Apple Pencil first-generation, which, if you watch my mini review, I'm gonna, say this because there's a lot of overlap with these products. I'm, really! Actually. Ok, with that the Apple Pencil to give you a flat inside on and more of a matte finish, a little easier to hold I put a wrap on my Apple Pencil one. It's fine! The inking experience is exactly as good on whether you have an Apple Pencil, one or Apple Pencil. Two, it's wonderful! It's one of the best pen input systems in terms of palm rejection in terms of line fluidity in terms of tilt support, it's great, and I'm, an artist, so I spent hours every week, drawing on my eye, I have an iPad Pro 12.9 inched him and I appreciate that so much smaller, more manageable size. For this one.

One thing you don't get is the pro motion: 120 Hertz, display that you would on the iPad Pro model. So that's about the only time I miss it is when I'm drawing lines. I noticed the pencil lines might not fall just quite as quickly as with 120 Hertz display, but it's pretty imperceptible. It doesn't really affect my ability to do art, so I'm happy to save money with that. What you do get is the more important thing which is a Retina IPS high resolution display, and it's a laminated display so much lower reflectance than the $329 iPad and colors are rich or ?, because this is a wide p3, color gamut display.

It supports true tones. So when you're sitting in your man or woman came at night when light is low, it's kind of yellow the display lab it's not as cold and white and hard in your eyes, although it's a little more color accurate that way, ? if you hold up a white piece of paper next to the iPad, and you turn true tone on and off, you'll notice, that with true tone on it's actually closer to that white piece of paper. Also, we get the current Apple A12 CPU. Is this the same? CPU you get an iPhone, 10s or 10s. Macs are the iPad Mini 5 for that matter, something the $329 iPad is rocking with the old Apple A10 CPU.

So obviously this one is going to be faster as two generations newer, not as fast as the iPad Pro 2018 models, which are still the latest generation models. Those have the 12x which is a superfast CPU, but it's probably more than most people need. Generally speaking, iPads are very fast and responsive things, and do you need an iPad with an 8, 12 X and the few of you who are actually doing things like editing, 4k videos primarily on your iPad? You would probably benefit from having an 12, X, CPU and the pro, but for the rest of the world. I think in a 12 is fine and, as ever with Apple you're going to get OS upgrades for years to come, so the iPad will stay current, and you know strong enough CPU to feel like you also be playing games and having fun and getting a responsive experience. Two years from now with this iPad when it comes to the competition in Android land.

As we all know, Android tablets really aren't doing that well, which is a shame but also Google, hasn't real worked hard with this tablet experience it differentiated from the phone experience and the ecosystem isn't as broad with the iPad. You get a huge library of tablet, applications that are available, but the Samsung Galaxy Tab s 4, would be the obvious competitor which sells for around six hundred and forty-nine dollars. For the 64 Gig model that you might find on sale for less, it's got a high-resolution display. It's got an older snapdragon, 835 CPU, we're up to the 855 now, and song was Galaxy S 10 phones that hurts a little. You do at least get the pencil in the box, though, or the s-pen is Samsung calls it went there.

So that's about the only competition and ironically, it's even more expensive. The design might not be cutting edge, it might be new and not have the flat size of the proline and then even smaller bezels, but the bezels are a little smaller than the previous generation air, because they've increased the screen size from nine point, seven inches to ten point, five inches and another benefit of the sort of legacy design. Then, like I, said updated a little here. Are you get a headphone jack? Yes, and you have a lightning connector instead of USB-C I suspect that most people who are in the Apple ecosystem actually prefer that, because it means it's compatible with your iPhone and your old or iPad cables. Your camera connection, kit, adapter, if you have it all of that sort of thing, it does have a 12 watt charger in the box and the usual USB to lightning cable performance on this, as you might guess, given the fact that is the current generation, CPU is great, it does Apple an are all that sort of thing.

What you don't get, though, is face ID, which you do get on the iPad Pro and on the latest generation iPhones and the iPhone 10 as well. So you saw a touch IDs generation 2, and it works just fun. It's fast. It's fluid I kind of like having a home button back, even though it supports all the new gestures that Apple has introduced from multitasking. Split screening drag down to get to your quick settings.

All that sort of thing the home button is kind of convenient and not having these two buttons just to reboot the tablet. The camera is kind of retro too. The good news about retro is there's no bump on the back, so it looks a little prettier. It won't scratch your table, but it's an 8 megapixel F, 2.4, rear camera same thing on the iPad Mini five and a seven MX megapixel front face time camera with an F 2.2 lens. These are not cutting edge cameras there enough to get by on, and you know you shoot, 1080p video with the rear camera, but not 4k video.

It does have slow motion as a feature there. It's not the best camera on the book. Probably your phone is gonna. Have a better camera, there's I suppose there has to be reason to upsell you to the pro models. If you actually are using photography in a serious way or videography with your iPad.

The thing that we don't have from the pro line are the quad speakers which fire from different corners. We have a great sense of stereo separation. Here we have the older style stereo speakers that are both firing from the bottom, if you're holding it upright in portrait mode. Some good speakers really, as a tablet goes very nice, but I do miss that stereo separation, samey battery life has a 30 point.2 watt hour lithium-ion battery, and you know the nice thing about Apple- is they don't exaggerate battery life claims for the Wi-Fi mild, they say 10 hours of usage, and which is the same for the iPad Mini 5 and just like the iPad Mini 5? It actually does last that long, so your brightness set at 50%, and you're doing a variety of things with it. It's a good battery life, and you might actually get more than that.

They do claim less time if you're using LTE 4G. They claim an hour less time with that some good energizer bunny. So that's the iPad Air 3 from Apple for 2019 and their most mainstream. If you want to use they're kind of hyperbole tablet that they offer in mainstream in terms of size, $500 ain't cheap, but it's not obscene like the pro models, and you get everything that most people would care about. A fast current generation, CPU operating system updates for several years to come.

Keeping a current and sprightly and relevant you've got a wonderful laminated wide color gamut display on here. You've got Apple Pencil support. You've got a headphone jack. Furthermore, you've got a lightning connector which, like I, said I think for Apple. People probably is more convenient than USB see at this point, the cameras, the design slightly updated.

You know you get the idea, but everything I think that you really care about in terms of using a tablet is here, including the keyboard: smart connector, if you want or Bluetooth otherwise, it's fast enough, and it's a big enough screen that you could use this as a laptop stand and if you wanted to, but at this price you're, not going to beat yourself up. If you happen to actually use your laptop is to this occasionally ? I'm Lisa from mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech, videos and thumbs up. If you like, this vid.

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