In the last year and a half, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, iPads have assumed centrality within the Apple range: this is how they will transform.
The Covid-19 pandemic has given new life to products such as notebooks and tablets. The new rhythms, new habits and a transversal recourse to remote activities such as work and study, have ended up determining an unprecedented demand which has benefited devices such as Apple ‘s iPad .
The very product that almost ten years ago founded a then unprecedented category of technological products, in the last year has ended up assuming an increasingly central role within Apple’s product range . The iPad sales in the last six months of 2020 shot up as high as 43% in a year-on-year, and growth seems to have no end: the first three months of 2021 the entire tablet segment has moved nearly 8 billion dollars, with an increase of 79% compared to the same period of the previous year. It is therefore not surprising that Apple wants to ride the wave of a success favored by circumstances, and to do so, according to rumors, is working to renew the range as soon as possible, bringing wireless charging to the iPad Pro and giving the iPad mini the restyling it has been waiting for six years.
The New iPad Pro and iPad Mini
The information gathered by Bloomberg tells us that Apple has in mind to introduce wireless charging on the new iPad Pro , but at the same time would take the opportunity to renew the design.
Via the metal back – which moreover represents a technical obstacle to the functioning of wireless charging – for a glass surface, and a series of other changes and innovations on which the sources of the past few hours have remained sewn. The time to discover them, however, is not lacking: it will not arrive before 2022.
And the new iPad Pro won’t even arrive before the new iPad mini . Apple has not forgotten it, on the contrary, in light of the new needs determined by the pandemic, it is preparing to live a second youth.
The new iPad mini is expected with a design more in step with the times: a massive reduction of those unsightly edges around the display is expected, and this could also determine the disappearance of the physical Home button which still today has a large base of admirers.
Wireless Charging at the Heart of iPad Pro
These are the latest rumors about the new iPad Pro and iPad mini. But the rumor machine had already moved, especially on the first, on which it is said that a MagSafe magnetic system similar to that adopted on the iPhone 12 range can debut .
The introduction of wireless charging on the iPad Pro will not (not yet) result in the disappearance of the physical USB-C input, which will remain in place at least in the next generation to ensure rapid battery charging and transfer of the most bulky files. .
Furthermore, Apple would be considering the idea of equipping the next generation of iPad Pro with reverse wireless charging , the possibility of wireless charging iPhone or other gadgets such as Apple AirPods simply by placing them on the back of the tablet.
Finally, the last product on which Apple would be working to make it available as soon as possible, it is said by the end of the year together with the iPad mini, is the basic iPad access to the range, which would become thinner than the current one.
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