Apple Announces the iPhone 17e and a New iPad Air

Apple announced a caller iPad and iPhone today; the fund iPhone 17e and an updated iPad Air, some upgrades to models released past year. The devices are each disposable for preorder connected March 4 and volition spell up for merchantability connected March 11.

The iPhone 17e gets immoderate cardinal upgrades implicit the 16e that came earlier it, including the summation of MagSafe wireless charging astatine 15W – the 16e had wireless charging but nary magnets, and topped retired astatine 7.5W – and a caller pinkish colour (joining the achromatic and achromatic of past year’s model). The telephone besides gets an upgraded mentation of Apple’s in-house designed C1 cellular modem, this clip called the C1X.

Otherwise, the iPhone 17e is simply a spec bump, with an A19 spot alternatively of A18, and treble the entry-level retention astatine 256GB. That's not a atrocious thing, though; internally, the 17e volition beryllium precise akin to the iPhone 17, which we deliberation is the champion iPhone for astir people. It'll conscionable beryllium missing a fewer features similar existent dual cameras and the Dynamic Island cutout, and though it has an OLED display, it'll beryllium 60Hz alternatively of 120Hz. Incredibly, successful this clip of rapidly inflating tech prices, the telephone inactive starts astatine $599.

Then there’s the caller iPad Air, a much straightforward spec bump that outfits it with an M4 spot and Apple’s caller N1 networking spot – which handles the iPad Air’s Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread connectivity – and C1X cellular modem. The institution says the tablet, contempt having the aforesaid processor halfway counts (8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 16-core NPU), volition beryllium “up to 30 percent faster” than the M3 iPad Air, which is already 1 of the champion tablets you tin buy, and a whopping 2.3 times faster than the M1 mentation released successful 2022. The caller iPad Air volition besides person 12GB of RAM and, arsenic before, volition travel successful 11- and- 13-inch versions. It besides starts astatine $599.

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