Like the 13-inch iPad Pro, the 9.7-inch model has beefed-up audio with louder, clearer speakers.
MS WORD ON APPLE IPAD PRO 9.7 UPGRADE
On its own, True Tone is not a good enough reason to upgrade from an earlier iPad. True Tone is clever and nice, but it is not going to excite anyone and won’t set the world on fire. There’s some evidence it can stop you from sleeping. In the past bright blue-tinged iPad screen lights could spoil your relaxed night-time mood. This is noticeable if you fire up the iPad at night when the room lights are low. The iPad’s software then adjusts the display colour temperature to match. True Tone detects the colour temperature of your surroundings using two four-channel light sensors. The second new screen feature of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro is more subtle. Both iPad Pro models handle these tasks with ease. In the past iPads weren’t powerful enough for serious editing work. This is important if you use your iPad for work phototography or video. The display is brighter and more vibrant.Ī wider colour range also means better colour accuracy. If you do show the same image, you’ll notice it looks better on the iPad Pro with the wider color range. Unless both models show the same photograph, it is hard to describe what separates them. Put the two side-by-side and you can see the displays are not the same. Its screen is also brighter than the iPad Air 2. While both iPads have the same 2048‑by‑1536 pixel resolution, the iPad Pro displays a wider colour range. On paper that sounds like an awful, backward step. The most obvious external difference is the bump on the back for the camera lens. They weigh the same: about 445g for the cellular model. iPad Pro in an iPad Air skinĪt first sight there’s not much difference between the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and the iPad Air 2. The 9.7-inch iPad Air is more expensive than many laptops, but then Apple says it’s more powerful.Īfter a week of using it as my main, but not only, computer, it’s clear some people will find it more useful than a laptop. Apple’s latest 9.7-inch iPad Pro packs the internals of the 13-inch model in the same space as the 9.7-inch iPad Air.