Apple Finally Moved the Camera on Its Colorful New iPads—But Not on the New iPad Pro

Saving everybody the agony of a six-hour-long presentation, Apple has quietly introduced a colourful new Tenth-generation iPad with a relocated selfie digital camera and a sixth-generation iPad Pro upgraded with the corporate’s M2 chip that debuted in MacBooks earlier this yr.

The Tenth technology iPad now options the identical “all-screen” design because the iPad Pro, the iPad Air, and the iPad Mini. It has a ten.9-inch, 2360×1640 Liquid Retina show surrounded by a skinny bezel. The residence button is now extinct and changed with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the lock/energy button alongside the highest fringe of the pill. Face ID authentication remains to be not a part of the deal, however the Tenth-technology iPad is formally the primary from Apple to characteristic the front-facing 12MP ultra-wide selfie digital camera relocated to the panorama fringe of the pill, enhancing the calling expertise when utilizing providers like FaceTime—which work higher in panorama mode.

Apple’s proprietary Lightning port is now gone from its fashionable iPad lineup (though the earlier technology iPad with Lightning remains to be being bought) with the Tenth technology iPad transferring to USB-C. Powered by the A14 Bionic chip, which first debuted in 2020 alongside the iPhone 12 lineup, the brand new iPad is way from Apple’s most succesful pill and it’s designed extra for informal media consumption as an alternative of as a productiveness software, which is additional pushed residence with stylus help restricted to the primary technology Apple Pencil.

The Tenth technology iPad is offered for pre-order starting today (with availability beginning on October 26) in 4 totally different shade choices: silver, blue, pink, and yellow. The wifi-only mannequin begins at $449 for the 64GB mannequin, or $599 for the 256GB mannequin, whereas the wifi + mobile 64GB mannequin is $599, however jumps to $749 with 256GB of storage.

Oddly sufficient, the brand new sixth-generation iPad Pro is the least thrilling of as we speak’s Apple pill reveals. It options the identical flat edge design that the iPad Pro has been sporting since 2018 and that’s slowly trickled all the way down to Apple’s extra reasonably priced iPad fashions over time. Unlike as we speak’s new Tenth-generation iPad, the iPad Pro staunchly retains the front-facing digital camera situated on the highest fringe of the pill, presumably to prioritize easy Face ID logins over video chat periods.

The large information for the brand new iPad Pro is that it’s been up to date with the M2 chip that debuted earlier this yr within the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air, preserving the iPad Pro as highly effective as the corporate’s flagship laptops. Apple additionally introduced a brand new characteristic for the iPad Pro working iPadOS 16 that permits the 2nd-technology Apple Pencil to be detected as much as 12 millimeters above the display, giving it management over the motion of cursors and brushes earlier than writing or making a stroke. Apple guarantees it will assist enhance precision for artists, and it’s a welcome improve for anybody seeking to transition from Wacom’s drawing tablets to the iPad Pro and Pencil.

The sixth-generation iPad Pro can be available for pre-order starting today (with availability beginning on October 26) in silver or area grey finishes and each 11 and 12.9-inch sizes. The 11-inch, wifi-only mannequin with 128GB of storage begins at $799, or $1,099 for the 12.9-inch mannequin. Storage choices additionally embrace 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities, and a maxed-out 11-inch, wifi + mobile with 2TB of storage will set you again $2,099, whereas a equally spec’d 12.9-inch mannequin is $2,399.