ipad air 4th generation review with pros and cons

 

 hi guys this is shubham and in this article  let's do the unboxing and have a first look at this ipad 8 that's the fourth generation or also known as 2020 edition and guys i know i'm actually very very late i actually missed the initial batch of pre-bookings and it was just almost out of stock everywhere even on amazon india this is not available so i had to actually source it from a local dealer here in hyderabad so let's do the unboxing of this one and have a first look and i'll also compare it with my ipad pro 12.9 inches that i have does it actually makes sense now to go with the pro series or is the regular ipad air good enough uh and as you can see guys this is the gb variant wi-fi only it also comes in a cellular model and also a 256 gigabyte uh variant uh the 64 gigabyte variant is for 54 900 and that 256 will be for about almost 69 000 so yeah expensive and cellular models are generally about a little bit about 10 000 more 

 so let's open this up and uh to less we can just remove this and you can open this so that's actually nice and guys i have also booked the airport pro some of you have asked me to compare it with the sony's uh that also is almost out of stock here in india but i pre-booked it hopefully i'll get it this month let's see so let's open this up and uh guys be careful about some sellers on online if you're just typing ipad air they're actually selling the older third generation model so be aware this is the fourth generation uh this comes with the latest a14 bionic chip so let's open this up and that just comes out like this so here it is and uh this one is having a actually 10.9 almost 11 inch screen so let's just open this up and this is in this bluish color part looks almost close to gray i would say this says ipad apple logo and also this one actually has this connector so that keyboard accessory actually works even with this one and if you notice here we have the accessory for the apple uh pencil so the apple pencil second generation will also work but again as it's a separate accessory almost about ten thousand five hundred to ten thousand six hundred i'll leave the link of amazon for that uh so here it says designed by apple in california must be some paperwork and stickers it says ipad pair so basic stuff no okay that's it basic stuff and you get actually two apples stickers white and color that you're getting so i'll just keep this one also to the side and fortunately we get a charging brick and it's actually a type c uh brick that we are getting on this and uh this is a usb type-c uh cable that you are getting yes the even the new ipad air is now finally moved to type-c connector so that's what we get in the box i'll just keep this to the side nothing much let's look at this one now and uh as uh you can see guys this is having a 10.9 inch screen and this is again still a ips lcd screen no ipad actually has an amoled screen till now so this is also a ips lcd screen apple likes to call it liquid retina and it's actually a good quality uh screen it 

can go actually pretty bright 500 nits and let me give a physical overview uh if you notice one interesting thing is that uh here this is the power on off button but we also have a fingerprint scanner on this one in fact i prefer this to even this pro model this pro model actually uh has just the face id and you guys know these days the face id if you have a mask and stuff it does not work so in a way i would say it's nice that they have a physical fingerprint scanner here and here we have the volume uh rocker and if you have the apple pencil you can put it here and it will charge wirelessly and bottom uh this one also has stereo speakers one two three four looks like quad that would be impressive the pro has that and here is your usb type-c port that will be used for charging and all those things and we have the connector for the apple keyboard so i like the sizer to give you an idea i'll boot it of course this is the bigger one uh the 12.9 and this is the new 10.9 and i feel this is actually a more practical size because i always felt this was very very bulky the bigger 12.9 i would say the 12.9 would be okay if you're a serious professional or do a lot of work with the apple pencil then it would be better but this one if you're just using it regularly this is the perfect size i feel so let's do one thing let's try to power it on and obviously yes it has a back camera that's a 12 megapixel over here and just it says ipad over here and the front camera is supposed to be again a fingerprint magnet as you can see let's just try to power it on hope it has some charge and guys by the time it actually boots up and i set it up here is a configuration overview this ipad air is having a 10.9 inch ips lcd screen it's a liquid readiness screen it has the latest apple a14 bionic chip it comes in 64 or 256 gigabytes of storage moving to the camera the rear camera is a 12 megapixel the front facing camera is a 7 megapixel it also has stereo speakers support for apple pencil and support it gives the battery life of about 10 hours so guys

 i have set up this uh ipad air so let's have a closer look at the same and again as i've told you i like the size of this one uh the holding is actually very comfortable one interesting thing that i noticed is the about this touch id when i was setting it up is that yes this is a touch id if you just place your finger over here it does not unlock actually you have to press this button and it unlocks but it also asks you to set it up with another finger and as you can see i was using this right finger and also in this orientation so while setting up it asks you to do uh set it up with both your fingers so any direction if you rotate it actually works uh so this is typical ios layout that you are getting uh this runs on ios version 14 14.1 came out out of the box and as you can see i haven't installed any apps apart from just youtube to check the speakers actually the speakers are good i'll show you that but let's look at the settings and let me actually show you how much storage do you get out of the box and if i go over about the ipad storage over here as you can see almost about 13.7 gigabytes is sort of actually used on this one so roughly you will be getting just assume about 50 gigabytes of storage uh and comes with only two variants guys 64 or 256 so based on your storage needs decide what you want i am okay with 64 gigabytes of storage because i use apple icloud storage also so that works out but again if you plan to store a lot of stuff locally then i feel uh the 64 gigabyte variant will fill up very very quickly so just be aware of that one thing i noticed is that as i have even this larger version 12.9 one thing that i noticed is the icons iconography is a lot bigger i didn't expect that it would be such a big difference

 but if you look at it the icon size of the icons it's significantly bigger on this 12.9 and now this gives you a better idea about the size uh i would say still say that this is not that portable to carry around because with the case it can get very very heavy but again if you do a lot of work with the pencil then the bigger canvas is better but for the rest of the stuff i feel uh this one almost now it's 11 inches 10.9 is a perfect size i feel uh and now let's also look at the speakers on this one uh i was just playing around my own video send notifications okay why not let's just play this hi guys this is shubhamand in this video let me talk about what you should look at when you so as you can see we have stereo speakers

 on this one and i would say uh the speakers are actually good uh i won't say is as good as the 12.9 this one doesn't us does get even more louder and also has slight more depth but i would say if i'm just looking at this one i will not complain the speakers are actually good on this one so that's actually a nice thing and again as it said ipad generally the ipads have very good battery life even at the previous generations i never had a problem this again apple claims about 10 hours of battery life and i think so realistically it should give you about 9ish hours and if you're doing light work even exceed slightly above 10 hours so again i really ipods are great for content consumption still i would say if you plan to use it like a laptop then the experience is not good yes this one does support the new magic keyboard also but again that setup will get very very expensive and still if you want to use it like a laptop then i feel the macbook air might be a better option uh but if you're just looking for a premium uh what do you say uh tablet at this screen size then i feel this is a much better tablet if you're buying this do invest in a case uh because again these are expensive and if you do take care of the ipads they last for a really long time the older ipad i had was almost about four and a half years old and still was working fine uh also now let's also look at the cameras uh uh here we have a 12 megapixel rear facing camera i'll just take some samples and show it to you so here are some of the samples taken with the rear facing camera but again i don't use the rear facing camera a lot uh if you use it on your ipad do let me know but i feel the front facing camera is becoming a lot important these days uh because of the work from home situation video conferencings that we are doing and it's a seven megapixel uh front facing camera so here is a sample that i recorded here uh with the front-facing camera of this ipad hi guys uh this sample is from the front-facing camera of the ipad air and i feel in this vertical position it shoots the video a lot better uh and also it's not too zoomed in in the next section i'll actually shoot it in the landscape orientation and give you an idea so shooting this video with the ipad air and as you can see i'm in this orientation and i feel it's just too zoomed in in this typical video format orientation but if you go like this i feel it looks a lot better but what do you feel about the same do let me know in the comments section uh below and guys i double checked this is at 1080p then also i feel it's a little bit soft to my liking but what do you feel about the video quality uh i feel it's doing a decent job crunching this isn't completely artificial typical indoor lighting so guys that's it for now for the quick unboxing and first look at this ipad a fourth generation also known as the 2020 edition uh what do you guys feel about the same it's available for 54 900 in india so certainly that you're paying that apple tax but overall i would say it's a very good tablet and i feel as of now the ipad pro 11 inches simply does not make any sense this is a pretty good tablet and comes with that a14 bionic chip but what do you feel about the same do let me know uh in the comment section below and if you guys have any specific questions about this ipad air do let me know in the comment section below and if i get a lot of queries i might do a full review with this one anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys