New iPad Air Lighter Thinner
Apple announced the iPad Air, its fifth-generation iPad, October 22 in San Francisco at the companys annual unveiling event. Thinner, lighter, and with a more powerful processor, the 9.7-inch iPad Air with Retina Display brings some design and performance enhancements to the best-selling tablet, but not as many additions as we had hoped for, or as rumors suggested. In fact, wed say that Apple missed some opportunities to wow us with a tablet that could have perhaps had a larger screen with higher resolution, a higher-megapixel camera, or laptoplike accessories. At the very least, this was Apples chance to recapture its spirit of innovation and give us something different, rather than what amounts to a polished iteration of what we already had. For instance, theres no gold-hued version as with the iPhone 5S, and Apple mentioned nothing about incorporating the Touch ID fingerprint sensor that uses biometric data to unlock the phone and approve purchases. Also, by kee...