“While certain reports claimed that Apple will only have one new iPad version in stores this year, a 9.7-inch redesigned iPad Air 2 model supposed to offer better specs than its predecessor, Japanese Apple blog Macotakara has learned that a Retina iPad Mini 2 is also coming this week,” Chris Smith reports for BGR.
“Macotakara says the new iPad mini will also have a Touch ID fingerprint sensor and a Retina display, although not many other details about the device are offered,” Smith reports. “Recent component leaks have revealed the iPad Air 2 will have a faster A8X processor and 2GB of RAM, while resources discovered in iOS 8.1 beta suggest some of Apple’s upcoming tablets may offer users ‘Retina HD’ displays, or higher-resolution screens than current models.”
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Once they start making full sapphire displays, they can remove the home button and in place make that section of the display the so-called “flexible sapphire” found in the apple watch. Then the home button can be removed and this new touch button will be able to tell the difference of a tap and a press. Thoughts? Am I an idiot? Probably.
Brilliant!
You’re not an idiot, just an optimist. Considering the complete failure of Apple’s sapphire play with GTAT, I would say sapphire en mass isn’t coming anytime soon.
The home button in the iPhone 6 can already tell the difference between a tap and a press.
actually it’s the metal ring around the home button that senses the tap
actually Apple loves its circular, physical home bottom
and sapphire glass is not flexible – are diamonds flexible?
Tell that to Jony Ive
yeah – like the metal ring around my finger gives me pressure – but apples senses it. hmmmm
interesting, however, since I have never tried the iWatch and the flexible sapphire screen – which I believe it will not ever be flexible – yet senses pressure – I couldn’t comment
Sapphire is SO yesterday. Apple has moved on to using the far more flexible Flubber material for its displays. First discovered by Fred McMurray in that wacky Disney movie of the 1960s, Flubber is far more flexible (it bounces!) than sapphire, which, while hard, is also brittle. Plus, it avoids all the messy legal entanglements with a third party supplier.
So, let’s see: you posit that a sapphire screen will replace the home button, even though it would also have to accurately verify your finger/thumb print. Dream on, pal.
I roll my eyes in the days prior to a big Apple announcement. The fantasies come out of the woodwork. Guys, dial back on your lithium, unicorn dust and nitrous oxide a little, please.
I prefer Apple to AGAIN drop the numbering.
iPad Air name also.
Just call it the iPad and iPad mini…
doesn’t matter if these devices gain more processing power, offer longer battery life, or even true telephone capabilities.
Keep the name simple Apple yet offer WIFI which is has no telephone capability or CELLULAR which does. Add in the choice of last years processor for a inexpensive version or the latest A8 M8 chipset. And always 32 Gb, 64 Gb and 128 Gb.
Oh and please please please Apple don’t offer silly 16 Gb or 8 Gb devices ever again – unless a MicroSD Slot will be included.
I’d rather they quit screwing around with the name of the iPads like they are one drugs and can’t make up their minds and just be consistent: iPad 1,2,3,4,5,6,7… and iPad mini 1,2,3,4,5,6,7… like they have the phones.
alrightie, I can go with that, however, if in deed we follow the numbering of iPhone 4s, 5s were not so consistent and being so – we’d maybe be at iPhone 8 running iOS8 – which would be cool – since its almost every year an new phone and a new OS comes about with a new chip — 8 would be consistently great… oh my…. the King of 8… Lol…
“The iPad Air 2 won’t be Apple’s only new tablet this week”
Yes, genius. There will be new iPad mini, too. ;))
oh man thats crazy crazy crazy insane can not believe its coming damn santa won’t get me either one, boo hoo
Scamsung sales reps are praying for a rapture so they don’t have show up at work next week. They can just sense the bloodbath that’s coming.