Leaked Renders Hint At How Apple’s iPad Air With 12.9-inch Display May Look – News18

Last yr, Ming-Chi Kuo hinted that there can be an iPad Air mannequin with an even bigger 12.9-inch display launching in 2024. This mannequin is perhaps launched alongside the up to date 10.9-inch model. Now, 91Mobiles has shared purported CAD renders of the iPad Air 12.9-inch variant, revealing what it is going to appear to be.

The new iPad seems much like the present mannequin, but it surely’s larger. It might need the identical button placements, with the Touch ID sensor on the high of the iPad. However, the digicam module has been redesigned barely, with a border across the lens—one thing harking back to the current iPhone fashions.

This comes after Apple selected to not replace any iPad fashions final yr—be it the iPad Air, iPad Pro, or the iPad mini lineup. According to a number of analysts, together with Ming-Chi Kuo and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the corporate is predicted to revamp its whole lineup this yr.

It stays to be seen when Apple decides to carry the revamped iPad Air mannequin with the Apple M2 chip. Ming-Chi Kuo talked about final yr that the identical might go into mass manufacturing in Q1 2024, so a launch might not be as far off as you might need thought. These new fashions could possibly be powered by the Apple M2 chipset, representing a generational soar from the Apple M1 that at present powers the outgoing 10.9-inch mannequin.

He additional reported that this 12.9-inch iPad mannequin wouldn’t characteristic the rumored mini LED show know-how just like the 12.9-inch iPad Pro; as an alternative, it will likely be geared up with an LCD show. However, it could nonetheless look higher than the ten.9-inch mannequin as it could use an Oxide backplate (additionally utilized in iPad Pro 12.9-inch), and never an a-Si backplate.