Sina Mobile News On the morning of November 1, it was reported that Apple's new generation tablet computer, the iPad Air, was officially launched today. The mainland of China, as one of the first countries to be listed, was officially launched in retail stores at 8:00 this morning. Due to the use of self delivery by appointment, there was no queuing at the scene.
No one queued up to make an appointment for self pickup in Apple retail stores
The iPad Air, like the iPhone 5s, uses the purchase method of taking it by appointment. It opened for the first time at 8:00 a.m. on October 30. From the reservation situation, it is slightly less popular than the iPhone 5s, but it is still fully booked in less than three hours later, of which the 16GB version is the most popular.
Today, as the first sales day, because only the customers who make reservations can enter the store with their ID cards, there is no long queue. Only some diehard fans wait in front of the store in advance, hoping to get the machine at the first time.
There is no long queue at the entrance of the retail store due to the reservation method
At about 6:40 a.m., Sina mobile phones came to the Apple Wangfujing retail store in Beijing. An iron fence was built around the door for queuing, and more than 10 security guards were also ready to open the store.At the top of the list are three young people. The first one came here at 6:30. He has used several previous generations of iPads and is also a fan. This time, he booked a deep space gray version of iPad Air.The other two users ordered the white version, laughing that they couldn't wait for the launch of the Retina screen iPad mini.
In the Apple retail store in Wangfujing, Mr. Sang, 60, was the first to buy the iPad Air. He came here this morning from Shuangqiao, Beijing, and bought a 32GB white WiFi version of the iPad Air.Mr. Sang said that he liked to play games on the iPad. He used to borrow others' iPads to play games, but now he finally bought one himself.Mr. Sang used an iPhone 3G (the second generation iPhone) to take photos in the store. "He bought more than 5000 in that year", he explained.
According to the introduction of Apple employees, although Mr. Sang was not the first person to enter the store, he became the first person to buy iPad Air in Wangfujing store because he only bought a machine without purchasing other accessories, and the cashier who received him was fast.
The online store supplies enough goods to ship within 24 hours
In addition to the way of reservation and self collection in retail stores, Apple's online retail stores have officially launched iPad Air at 0:00 today, which is the same as retail stores and only provides WiFi version. From the current situation, within 8 hours of its launch,All capacity versions and colors of iPad Air are available, and they will be delivered "within 24 hours". It can be seen that the supply of iPad Air is sufficient this time, so retail stores will also open for purchase soon.
The online store supplies enough goods to ship within 24 hours
If purchased through an online store, Apple will provide free laser engraving service, which can engrave characters on the back of the iPad Air according to user needs for free, but the delivery time will be extended to 2-4 working days.
In addition, if the online store purchases the iPad Air, it can also choose credit card installment payment. Currently, it supports "China Merchants Bank" and "ICBC", and can choose 24 month installment payment at most. The two banks repay 329 yuan and 319 yuan each month respectively.However, in the early days of the iPad Air, payment on delivery is not supported at present.
IPad Air is lighter and thinner, and A7 processor is upgraded
The fifth generation iPad appeared with the new name of iPad Air. The screen size remained at 9.7 inches, and the retina display continued to be used. Compared with the iPad 4, the iPad Air volume was reduced by 24%, the thinnest part was only 7.5mm, and the weight was reduced to 454g (nearly 30% lighter than the previous generation). The screen frame was significantly narrowed, and the overall look was more compact.In terms of internal components, the iPad Air tablet computer uses Apple A7 processor and is equipped with M7 coprocessor. The CPU processing performance is 8 times that of the previous generation, and the graphics processing capacity is 72 times higher.
The front camera pixel of the new iPad Air tablet is 5 million, supporting 1080p high-definition video FaceTime;The battery life reaches 10 hours.In terms of color, the iPad Air tablet is divided into two colors: deep space gray and silver, without the popular "Tuhaojin" color.
This time, only WiFi version is available in China, with a total of four capacity versions of 16/32/64/128GB, each selling at 3588/4288/4988/5688 yuan.(Qi Xin)
