Presumably, power will be transferred from the USB-C port in the keyboard to the Smart Connector on the back of the iPad Pro (I’m curious to hear about charging times when used this way). The hinge itself contains a USB-C passthrough port which, according to Apple, will be used for charging the iPad Pro. The app will also gain a new Ruler view for more granular measurements with the ability to save screenshots for future use.īut there’s more. The built-in Measure app will make it faster to calculate someone’s height.Hot Lava, an Apple Arcade game, will have a new AR mode that transforms your room into an obstacle course.The IKEA Place app will gain a new Studio Mode to let you furnish entire rooms with multiple pieces of furniture, more quickly.Practically speaking, here are some examples mentioned by Apple today: In the short term, this means that ARKit-enabled apps can integrate with the LiDAR scanner on the new iPad Pro to become considerably more precise, faster, and – potentially – useful: the new iPad Pros can combine depth points captured by the LiDAR scanner with data coming from cameras, motion sensors, and Vision algorithms to assemble a more detailed understanding of a scene in the real world. Besides the technical jargon, the addition of a LiDAR scanner is a noteworthy enhancement for Apple’s ARKit developer framework, which feeds into the company’s bigger plans for augmented reality down the road. The LiDAR Scanner measures the distance to surrounding objects up to 5 meters away, works both indoors and outdoors, and operates at the photon level at nano-second speeds.Īs others have pointed out already, that’s how lasers work. The LiDAR scanner, in short, is a sensor that can more accurately measure the distance between the iPad Pro and surrounding objects with greater precision and higher performance. The big addition to the iPad Pro’s camera system – and a feature that is expected to find its way to new iPhone models later this year – is the LiDAR scanner which, according to Apple, makes the new iPad Pro “the world’s best device for augmented reality”. I’ve never been an iPad photographer myself, but it’s nice to see consistency in the camera department (which includes the design of the camera bump, pictured above) across the iPhone and iPad lines. As we’ve seen with the iPhone 11 camera system before, the ultra-wide camera allows you to capture a much larger field of view. More MicrophonesĪs has been widely speculated over the past few months, the new iPad Pros follow in the footsteps of 2019’s iPhone 11 line by offering a 10 MP ultra-wide camera in addition to the 12 MP wide camera. I’m no LTE expert, but I guess an extra band can’t hurt. On the LTE side, the new iPad Pros support 30 bands instead of the older models’ 29. The new iPad Pro models fully integrate with the Wi-Fi 6 spec (including 802.11ax) for speeds up to 1.2 Gbps (up from 866 Mbps on the current-generation iPad Pro). Cellularīriefly mentioned in Apple’s announcement today, the new iPad Pros support faster Wi-Fi and gigabit-class LTE connections. Notably, the new iPad Pros still deliver up to 10 hours of battery life. The A12Z Bionic supports up to 1 TB of storage (as before) and drives the Liquid Retina display, which appears to be unchanged from the current generation with its support for wide color gamut (P3), ProMotion, and True Tone. While we’ll have to wait for benchmarks and tests to get a sense of the actual performance improvements over the current iPad Pros with the A12X Bionic chip, here’s what we know from Apple’s marketing materials today: the A12Z Bionic packs an 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU featuring “enhanced thermal architecture and tuned performance controllers”. The new iPad Pro models – available, as with the current generation, in 11-inch and 12.9-inch flavors – feature the all-new A12Z Bionic chip, a new camera system that includes an ultra-wide camera and LiDAR scanner for augmented reality, and integration with a long-awaited accessory, which will become available starting in May: the new Magic Keyboard with trackpad.Īs is tradition with a major refresh of the iPad Pro line, the new iPad Pro models come with a new SoC, this time called the A12Z Bionic. With a press release published earlier today, Apple officially announced the fourth generation of its iPad Pro line.
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