Apple Announces New iPad Pro And iPhone SE

iPad News:

Apple® today introduced the all-new 9.7-inch iPad Pro™ — at just under one pound it features a new pro Retina® display with greater brightness, wider color gamut, lower reflectivity, Night Shift™ mode and introduces new True Tone® display technology to dynamically adjust white balance. The new iPad Pro delivers incredible performance with the 64-bit A9X chip that rivals most portable PCs, along with a four-speaker audio system that is twice as powerful,¹ new 12-megapixel iSight® camera for shooting Live Photos™ and 4K video, 5-megapixel FaceTime® HD camera, and faster wireless technologies. And iPad Pro includes support for the breakthrough Apple Pencil™ and a new Smart Keyboard™ cover designed to fit the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro.

“iPad Pro is a new generation of iPad that is indispensable and immersive, enabling people to be more productive and more creative. It’s incredibly fast, extremely portable, and completely natural to use with your fingers, Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard. And now it comes in two sizes,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The 9.7-inch iPad Pro has a new Retina display with True Tone technology, four-speaker audio system, blazing fast A9X chip, 12-megapixel iSight camera, 5-megapixel FaceTime HD camera, faster wireless, and support for Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard. It is the ultimate upgrade for existing iPad users and replacement for PC users.”

iPhone News:

Apple® today introduced iPhone® SE, the most powerful phone with a four-inch display, in a beloved compact aluminum design that has been updated with matte-chamfered edges, a color-matched stainless steel Apple logo, and four gorgeous metallic finishes, including rose gold. iPhone SE offers exceptional performance with the same 64-bit A9 chip offered in iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus for blazing fast speeds, longer battery life, faster wireless, a 12-megapixel iSight® camera featuring Live Photos™ and 4K video, and Touch ID® with Apple Pay®.

“iPhone SE is an exciting new idea — we started with a beloved, iconic design and reinvented it from the inside out. The result is the most beautiful and powerful phone with a four-inch display in the world,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “iPhone SE is packed with a stunning four-inch Retina display, advanced 64-bit A9 chip with M9 motion co-processor, longer battery life, 12-megapixel iSight camera with True Tone flash, Live Photos, 4K video, faster LTE and Wi-Fi, and Touch ID with Apple Pay. Everyone who wants a smaller phone is going to love iPhone SE.”

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Customizable Email App Spark Arrives On The iPad

Readdle launched Spark last year with the goal of making it easier to deal with your inbox, and yesterday it continued that mission with the launch of a new version that works on the iPad.

Spark is by and large the same app on the iPad as it is on the iPhone: it breaks your inbox up into basic but useful chunks — new emails, newsletters and notifications, pinned items, and everything else — and then gives you a bunch of tools to deal with them as you'd like.

There's a snooze feature, there are integrations with popular services like Dropbox and Evernote, and there are ways to customize the interface and your interactions with it as you'd like.

In a brief test on a first generation iPad mini — which, for comparison, can no longer open Mailbox without crashing — Spark moved fast and was able to load emails quickly. It's portrait view only shows a list of emails, which can be pretty intimidating if your inbox is stuffed, but the app's landscape view offers more information, letting you view an email on one side of the screen and a condensed inbox view on the other.

As with Spark on the iPhone, the iPad version is free to use and certainly worth trying out if you aren't satisfied with the email app you're already using.

Credit: theverge.com
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