Apple Watch Series 6 and iPad in a nutshell
Hello World,
Apple just lauched its next series iWatch and iPad yesterday at 10:30pm.
So new apple products were launched yesterday and now we’re gonna talk about them. Let’s get started
iWatch (Apple Watch)
So Apple Watch Series 6 was just released with all new features. The main feature which apple represented yesterday was capability of measuring SpO2(Blood Oxygen Saturation) and using watchOS 7 to leasure a lower range of VO2 max values. It is also equipped with the new S6 silicon which is 20% faster than previous generation (as said by Apple). Another main feature was family-setup which was previously on iPhone but not now. Now many iWatches can be controlled with single iPhone using family setup. Many of new watch faces were also introduced with a new band design called Solo Loop( which is a single loop stretchable liquid silicon band). Other features include better Always-On display, a continous Altimeter. The Apple Watch Series 6 comes at $399(₹40,900). Also it has another version of this similar in hardware and software but somewhat difference in design the Apple Watch Nike.
A budget friendly watch was also introduced- iWatch SE having S5 silicon chip with features family-setup, fall-detection, new watch faces, altimeter. The Apple Watch SE comes at $279(₹29,900) (also apple financing is available at $12 per month)
Apple Fitness+
Another feature intoduced was apple fitness+ serive. It has hundreds of exercises and and provides inter-connectivity among various devices (Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, tvOS). It’s subsciption comes at $9.99 per month and $79.99 per year.
Apple One
Apple cheated on exam on this one and copied Google One. Just like google one , Apple One is based on one subscription for all. It comes at three plans :
- Individual- $14.95/month included Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, 50 GB of iCloud storage
- Family- $19.95/month included Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, 200 GB of iCloud storage
- Individual- $29.95/month included Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, 2 TB of iCloud storage, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+.
It has 30 day free trial.
iPad
Apple launched it’s iPad 8th generation which comes with A12 bionic (40% faster CPU , 2X faster GPU than pervious). And Apple always does, it exaggarated it iPad claiming it is 2x faster than Top-Selling Windows Laptop, 3x faster than Top-Selling Android Tablet, 6x faster than Top-Selling Chromebook. It has also introduced Neural Engine (5 trillion operations per second). It starts at $329(₹29,900) and $299 for education.
Apple also launched its its new line of iPad — the iPad Air. It comes in 5 colors with 3 new(Rose Gold, Green, Sky Blue). It has features like liquid retina display (2360 x 1640 i.e. 3.8 M pixels Full lamination and True Tone). The best feature it incorporated is the Touch ID. Yes, touch id finally came to iPad with touch sensor its it power button. And it comes with the new A14 bionic chip (for first we will experience 5 nm technology with 11.8 B transistors) 40% faster CPU and 2x faster GPU and the Neural engine (11 trillion operations per second 2x faster Machine Learning performance. It also has ML Acclerators for faster matrix multiplication and 10x faster ML Computations. And the biggest change- Apple is ditching Lighting port for iPad and now comes with the 5 Gigabits per sec USB-C. Front Camera is 7-mp supporting Smart HDR and the rear 12-mp camera just as iPad Air. It supports stereo audio for landscape mode. It supports accesories ie. Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. And this will come with iOS 14. It comes at $599(₹54,900)
