There were a lot of rumors floating around the consumer space regarding new iPad Pro 2020, but all those rumors came to halt as Apple unveiled their new iteration in iPad series and dubbed the device as ‘iPad Pro 2020’. iPad 2020 also brought some radical changes along. Let’s discuss about all of them in details.
Most radical update is witnessed in the navigation and pointing schema department. In previous generation of iPads, you had to use your fingers in order to navigate through the content available on the screen but iPad Pro 2020 inherently supports navigation through any pointer device like ‘Trackpad or Mice’. All the iPad users were requesting this feature for a long time and it seems that Apple heard them. Now you can make use of any physical mouse or a trackpad to navigate through apps. This small change in Apple’s ideology could change the way one uses his iPad. This change could convert your iPad into a Laptop right away all you need to do is just attach your iPad 2020 with Apple’s new magic keyboard cover for iPad Pro 2020 or any other keyboard cover with trackpad like Logitech’s one.
New Magic Keyboard specially designed for iPad Pro 2020 increase usability of your new iPad. New Magic Keyboard is designed considering ergonomic needs of the users. It spots a floating design with smooth angle adjustment. You can easily adjust the floating angle so as to suit your requirement. This time Apple is providing you a backlit keyboard along with a trackpad attached to it. Magic keyboard for iPad will deliver you with most dynamic and satisfying typing experience ever found on iPad. However, this Magic Keyboard will be available for purchase from May and it will cost you around $349 or $200 depending upon your iPad variant.
The pointer will not be obstinate on the screen all the time instead it will only appear when you require it i.e. while using trackpad. Most differentiating factor is the pointer will not look like a typical mouse pointer instead it will appear as a circular dot only. Apple also stated that the new trackpad design will also support some gestures. For instance, If you swipe the cursor from bottom of the screen, app dock will appear. You can swipe three fingers simultaneously to go back to home screen. While swiping up with three fingers and holding it for some time will open multitasking window. Swiping left or right to navigate through opened app is also supported. These gestures look quite similar to gestures found on MacBook’s.
New iPad Pro 2020 also gets a design revamp, as it spots a square camera module similar to that of iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro’s rear camera module. The camera module spots a dual shooter setup where the primary camera being typical 12MP shooter packed with a brand new 10MP Ultra-Wide shooter with unknown field of view, but it is rumored that it supports 119o field of view. This time Apple Inc. has heated up the game by adding a LiDAR scanner. 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. New depth frameworks in iPadOS combine depth points measured by the LiDAR Scanner, data from both cameras and motion sensors, and is enhanced by computer vision algorithms for a more detailed understanding of a scene. The tight integration of these elements enables a whole new class of AR experiences on iPad Pro. That means you can create Augmented reality based content using the new iPad Pro 2020.
When it comes to performance this iPad Pro 2020 combined with new magic keyboard could replace your Windows computer setup as stated by Apple. New iPad Pro is powered by A12Z Bionic chipset as compared to A12X on the previous generation devices. A12Z chipset houses 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores along with one Neural core that promises ultimate performance when coupled with Apple’s iPad OS integration. It packs 5 studio quality microphones to record crystal clear audio while packing four speakers to make your binge watch experience more immersive and dynamic.
Apple devices are quite popular for their immersive displays and same goes with new iPad as it packs an edge to edge liquid retina display with P3 wide color support. Apple has added support for ProMotion technology that is basically ‘High refresh rate’ technology depending upon your action new iPad could change refresh rate of the screen to make your scrolling experience more proactive. You can go upto a refresh rate of 120Hz.
New iPad Pro 2020 will be available in two variants i.e. 11-inches and 12.9-inches with two color options silver and space grey. Four storage configurations will be there starting with 128GB of storage going upto 1 terabyte of storage.
Pricings are as follows. The 11-inch iPad Pro starts at INR 71900 for the Wi-Fi model and INR 85900 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model, and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro starts at INR 89900 for the Wi-Fi model and INR 103900 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model.
The new iPad OS 13.4 will be available to users on 24th of March,2020.
Pricings for the new magic keyboard are as follows. The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro will be available for purchase in May for INR 27900 for the 11-inch iPad Pro and INR 31900 for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with layouts for over 30 languages, including simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.
New iPad Pro 2020 is available for booking on Apple’s webstore but the shipment is expected to start from 25th of March.
