Apple is now making everything new and unfortunately expensive
Apple quietly introduces a new iPad. The 10th generation tablet is now catching up visually with its bigger brothers, but loses its low price. The special highlight: For the first time, Apple uses a front camera in landscape format – a real novelty.
It is colorful, the iPad of the 2022 vintage. It looks like the iPad Air with the new 10.9-inch display, but the colors appear stronger. You can choose from blue, rose, silver or yellow. Inside is a tried and tested Apple A14 Bionic chip, and you have to choose between 64 or 256 GB of storage (source: Apple).
iPad 10th generation for the first time with front camera in landscape format
A real novelty is the ultra wide-angle front camera with 12 megapixels. For the first time, it is in the wide side in the edge of the display and is thus oriented in landscape format. All other Apple tablets have been found in portrait format so far. But you will look in vain for a Face ID sensor, which is reserved for the iPad Pro. Instead, there’s still a fingerprint sensor. Touch ID is no longer in the home button, but in the power button like on the iPad Air and iPad mini.
The Lightning connector is also history, which, as expected, has to make way for USB-C. A 5G radio module is optionally available, but Wi-Fi 6 is always standard. The 10th generation iPad also supports pen input as standard. However, only with the Apple Pencil of the 1st generation – nothing changes there. The second generation is still doing its work on the iPad Pro, Air and the mini. No joke: Since the Apple Pencil 1 still has a Lightning connector, Apple now offers a dongle.
The camera on the back of the iPad has also been upgradedwhich can now fall back on a sensor with 12 instead of just 8 megapixels and thus catches up with the larger models in terms of quality.
The new iPad together with the new iPad Pro in the Apple trailer:
Mighty price hikes
Unfortunately, all this has a much higher price, especially in this country in Europe. Previously you had to officially pay 379 euros for the 9th generation iPad in the Apple Store, but the manufacturer now charges at least 579 euros for the successor – a surcharge of 200 euros. You can order the new tablet from the Apple Store now, and it should be available from October 26th. By the way: The 9th generation iPad remains in the portfolio and is also becoming more expensive – instead of 379 euros, it now costs at least 429 euros directly from Apple.
