10.5 inches (270 mm) (2,224 x 1,668) px (264 ppi), 500-nits Max Brightness, Wide-Color Display (P3), True Tone Display, Fully Laminated Display, 1.8% Reflectivity and Apple Pencil (1st generation) support
The iPad Air (3rd generation)[2] (colloquially referred to as iPad Air 3) is a tablet computer developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced and released on March 18, 2019, alongside the 5th-generation iPad Mini.
The device was released five years after the previous iPad Air 2, as the iPad (5th generation) was released in 2017 as the successor to the iPad (4th generation) released in 2012. The entry-level iPad lineup continued starting iPad (6th generation) released in 2018, while the third generation iPad Air was positioned as an iPad Air lineup.
The iPad Air (3rd generation) comes in three color options (Silver, Space Gray and Gold), with the gold color option changed to the gold style used on the iPhone 8.
It features an upgraded, 7MP front camera (used first in the iPhone 7 and up to the iPhone XS), compared to the 1.2MP camera found in the previous generation. However, it retains the same, older 8MP rear camera which cannot record in 4K video as such.[5]
It uses the Apple A12 Bionic chip, a 2.49GHz six-core processor, which has a 66% faster clock speed than the 1.5GHz triple-core Apple A8X in the iPad Air 2. It also has an improved display from the previous generation, including a P3 color gamut for more vibrant colours (improved from sRGB) and True Tone, which allows the display to adapt to ambient lighting to change its color and intensity in different environments.
This iPad Air retains the Lightning port and the headphone jack from the previous generation and is the final iPad Air model to do so; the fourth-generation Air does not have a headphone jack and uses USB-C instead. It is also the final iPad Air model available with white bezels; the 4th generation Air uses black bezels only. It also has a slightly larger battery of 30.2 watt-hours (up from 27.6 W·h), rated by Apple to provide the same "10 hours" of active use.[6]
The third-generation iPad Air received positive reviews. It was praised for its laminated screen, Smart Keyboard case capability, as well as a speedy SoC. However, it only supports the first-generation Apple Pencil, uses the 2017's 10.5-inch iPad Pro design and only has two speakers compared to four on the Pro models.[8] In addition, while the current Pro models provide some support for HDR, the Air (3rd generation) does not.
Hardware issues
Some devices of this model, which were manufactured between March 2019 and October 2019, have issues where the screen may flicker or flash before permanently dying.[9][10][11][12][13] As a result of this Apple released a recall program which allows users to send in their device for replacement up to two years from the date of purchase.[9]
Source: Apple Newsroom Archive.[14]
Apple products use the convention 1 GB = one gigabyte (one billion bytes), meaning that 16, 32, 64 and 128 GB storage devices contain a total of 14.9, 29.8, 59.6 and 119.2 GiB, respectively. Formatting and apps take up some of this total storage, leaving 11.5, 27.5, 56.5 and 114 GiB available to the user.[15]
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