{"id":3503,"date":"2014-10-17T06:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2014-10-17T06:30:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T20:30:56","slug":"the-new-ipad-air-2-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/features\/the-new-ipad-air-2-everything-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPad Air 2: Everything You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"edge-to-edge-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3507\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2.jpg\" alt=\"ipadair2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2-937x1024.jpg 937w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2-770x842.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2-380x415.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2-800x875.jpg 800w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/27132757\/ipadair2-1160x1268.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/au\/ipad-air-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPad Air 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s thinner than the last one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s faster than the last one.<\/p>\n<p>It has Touch ID now, which is handy.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a gold version\u00a0now.<\/p>\n<p>They got rid of the rotation lock\/mute switch for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>The two cameras are\u00a0much improved, and appear to be on par with what is in the iPhone 5S.<\/p>\n<p>Battery is the same (10 hours).<\/p>\n<p>They are still doing that weird thing with capacity tiers. 16\/64\/128GB. Don&#8217;t buy\u00a0a 16GB, you dummy.<\/p>\n<p>You can pre-order tomorrow, and it goes on sale Friday October 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Prices are as follows for Australia.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"ipad-air-2-australian-pricing\">iPad Air 2 &#8211; Australian Pricing<\/h1>\n[table id=13 \/]\n<p>If you want an OG iPad Air, they are still available (in 16\/32GB), and are a bit cheaper now.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"ipad-air-australian-pricing\">iPad Air &#8211; Australian Pricing<\/h1>\n[table id=14 \/]\n<p>If you can live without Touch ID or a gold back, I think those original iPad Airs are now a pretty good deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thinner, lighter, Touch ID &#038; gold. Also, the rotation lock got told to take a hike.\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}