Apple has unveiled the new iPad on Tuesday night in San Francisco. The big surprise here: It's no iPad 5 become but an iPad air. As expected it is much faster, thinner and lighter than the previous iPad 4 has been improved also the iPad mini, also was new MacBooks, Apple Mac Pro and Mac OS X 10.9 before. That will give apple accessories store even.

It was the great and perhaps the only surprise of the night: the new iPad means iPad air. While many of the technical improvements were previously advised in the weeks to the public, nobody had reckoned with the new name.

As expected is the iPad air with the new A7 processor equipped, which brings a huge performance boost with its 64-bit technology. The CPU up to four times faster, should be the graphics performance up to 8 times. In practice, this means, for example, files can be open twice as fast. Battery life should still be up to ten hours.

iPad air with narrower frames

Also, Apple has obstructed the M7 coprocessor in the iPad air, which is laid out on the motion analysis and control. He was introduced with the iPhone 5 s and was expected for the new iPad.

The iPad air is just 7.5 mm thin and weighs less than 500 grams. It is equipped with the Apple's retina display, so it retains the resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels. However, the display compared to the predecessor has a significantly narrower frame iPad 4.

Double wireless performance, old camera

Also the Wi-Fi has been improved: according to Apple souq uae, the iPad air offers up to twice of the Wi-Fi performance and download speeds of up to 300 Mbit / s. Also, it supports more frequency bands for mobile network than ever before.

There are also things that are missing the iPad air: the fingerprint sensor with touch ID was not installed. And also the 8 mega pixel camera from the iPhone 5 s was not giving Apple the new iPad. Both would have done him well.