hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and this is the ipad air 5th gen here i have the brand new
blue color but we also have a few other color options space gray pink purple and starlight
so let's unbox this set it up i'll talk about what's new and then also before we get started
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256 gigabytes you can see this is the 64 gigabyte model and if you want cellular
on top of just wi-fi it's an additional 149 now let's go ahead and unbox this and i also
have the new smart folio case here that's in this new color marine blue so it's a blue but
marine blue is what apple calls it so let's go ahead and open this up
so we'll pull this off here you'll see on the side we have a blue ipad air writing or text there
and let's go ahead and take it out of the box now i have the fourth gen to compare as this is
not a new design as far as the body goes there we go but it is a newer version so let's take it out
of the box here we'll set this aside just for a moment and let's see what's in the box so inside
we have a little pamphlet here just says welcome to ipad air and there's a few other things in
here but it's kind of stuck there we go so we just have a warranty card and then two apple stickers
but they don't match the ipad i wish apple would match these as they do on maybe the the imac or
other products but right now they don't so let's put this away and take a closer look at what's in
the box so as you can see here we have a usbc to usbc cable just like you would expect and then we
also have apple's charger that's included in the box it's 20 watts so that's what comes with it now
let's set that aside and take a closer look at the ipad itself so here's the ipad let's go ahead and
open it up now i haven't seen this color in person so we'll compare it with the last generation blue
and here you can see the new blue color so let's go around the outside edge and take
a closer look at it so on the right hand side as you would expect we have our volume buttons on the
top you have your touch id button as well as your power sleep wake you have two speakers but one of
these is sort of a resonating chamber so we have a microphone in the middle one's a resonance chamber
and then on the other side or the bottom again the same sort of resonance chamber speaker layout
with usbc so nothing on the other side now if you had the cellular model you would have a sim card
tray option as well so on the back you can see we have the pogo pin or smart connector adapter
this allows for things like the magic keyboard and then also below the volume button we also have the
spot for the apple pencil now this time around it does support 5g so on certain models you'll
have antenna lines with 5g antennas as well now as far as the color is concerned side by side
with the last generation you can see here on the left i have the fourth generation ipad air on the
right is the fifth so we're a little bit darker blue or a deeper blue color this time around it's
almost like apple took pacific blue and put it on this generation where sierra blue was on the
last generation so it's sort of they flipped it compared to the iphone 12 pro and 13 pro so
that kind of gives you an idea of what they look like they have a nice look as you tilt them in the
different light as well so not too much different as far as the form factor goes now before we set
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we'll talk about what's new so we'll boot it up here and there we go and the display is the same
as last year i must have had this in landscape as it's booting up with the apple and landscape
but the display is 2 360 by 1 640 with 264 pixels per inch it goes up to 500 nits so
pretty much the exact same as last year as far as that goes however there's a couple updates
internally so we now have the m1 processor with eight gigabytes of ram 5g capability
and then the rear camera is the same 12 megapixel f 1.8 aperture camera
has 4k video up to 60 frames per second but no hdr but adds extended dynamic range for video up to 30
frames per second but the forward-facing camera is the big update as far as this goes as well
we have a 12 megapixel front camera with center stage it adds two times zoom out and also has that
extended dynamic range for video up to 30 frames per second so that's what we've got inside this
also we have 10 hours of battery life according to apple so let's go ahead and turn it back on
we'll swipe up and get it set up so we'll hit english select your country or region and we can
set it up manually or bring a phone or ipad nearby to get it set up so we'll do that so just like an
iphone you can set it up by scanning this with your phone so we'll get this set up and finished
here we'll let it link and then we'll continue through the setup process now we do have touch
id on this device so we'll hit continue and we can place our finger on the top and get this set up so
just like touch id on the phone if you're using an iphone se or maybe an iphone 8 plus or something
like that with touch id it's very similar works just as well and you'll see it says capture all
of your fingerprint keep going and you can kind of turn it around just like when you set
it up on an iphone the first time so that was nice and quick let's go ahead and hit continue
now it says add another fingerprint we can do that maybe i'll do that for
this fingerprint on the left here real quick now it's asking if i want to make this your new ipad
i don't want to move everything i'll just customize settings here and set it up as
just a basic new ipad and then put things on it as i desire later on so we'll hit continue
keep it up to date we'll hit continue now it's asking if i want to be in the beta program since
the device i paired with was on it i'm not going to continue the beta on this one so we'll hit next
and then get started on welcome to new ipad so this is the basic setup so you'll see it's
fully set up at this point and let's go ahead and see what we've got as far as the ios or
ipad os version that's installed so we'll go to settings then we'll go to general we're already
at general we'll go to about and just like the iphone se and the iphones that are green that
i showed in a different video we have the same version 15.4 or 19e 241. now we'll go back here
and let's take a look at the wallpaper that comes with this so we'll just rotate it here
go down to wallpaper and then we'll run a benchmark and see what it's like and then we'll
take a look at the other accessories as well so we'll go to or we'll go to wallpaper here choose
a new wallpaper go to stills and you can see some here so we have a nice really rich blue one here
so you can see that here with one of the new colors let me just go through the different ones
so you have a red as well it's a nice sort of red or kind of burgundy we've got a purple and we also
have sort of a space gray or black one and then also one to go with starlight so those are all
the different colors that we have available you can see them here let me set this one
set them for both give it just a moment here now if you've never used one of these you can
pair an apple pencil very very easily with a second gen apple pencil takes just a moment
you'll see it says welcome to apple pencil and you can try out all these things if you want
and it will just work so that's pretty seamless on these you can just sort of hit continue
explore double tap what it does and more so that's it now we can use the apple pencil if we want to
draw or just control everything with that so that's all there is to that let me go ahead
and install geekbench and run some benchmarks and see what that's like as well now that we have the
m1 inside of this now both ipads are running ipad os 15.4 but you can see the fourth generation on
the left and the fifth generation on the right the scores are significantly different where the ipad
air fourth gen has 1589 for single core the fifth gen has 1705 for multi-core the fourth gen has
four thousand two hundred and nine the fifth gen has six thousand three hundred and three and we
also have the benefit of double the ram so we have eight gigabytes of ram on the new fifth gen where
we had four on the fourth gen so that's one of the differences here so we're not really sure what
we'll be able to use all of that for but it does make a difference and you can see the difference
in the wallpapers not too much of a difference but this is the new wallpaper on the ipad air
now let's set the other one aside the fourth gen now we'll bring in the smart folio case now this
is an expensive case it's 79 it's from apple and like i said it's in the new color so you just
pull to open it up like that so it kind of clicks into place if you've never seen it push down on it
pull that's the easiest way and let's open it up so this is the new color like i said it's the
marine blue color you can see there and let's see what we've got so we'll take this out of the box
and inside it does cover the back and the front we just have a little spacer there in between
set that aside and it adheres magnetically now i did want to show you the magnets on the back with
some magnet paper so this is great so it shows you where the magnets are as i move it around
you can see all the different magnets here that help hold it to the case and then there should
be some additional ones here as well that hold it so you can set it up as a stand and more so
there's magnets all throughout this case so that might be some of the cost for it then on
the back of the ipad we should have the similar sort of setup so a bunch of magnets all around
the ipad so it's pretty much the same there and if we spin it around it should adhere magnetically
so that attaches and then it just shuts off like that so when the case is closed it shuts off
when it's open it turns back on so you have that functionality and then of course you can set it
up as a stand just fold it on itself set it like this and it will hold itself up so they're really
nice cases but they are quite a bit pricey so they do keep an opening for the camera as well so now
let's go to the ipad itself and let's switch to the forward-facing camera now before we look at
the camera itself let's go into the settings and take a look at what we have for options
so under the camera for some reason it defaults to 1080p 30. so let's change that to 4k 30 or 60 you
have up to as far as an option goes and then also video format control so we can control that from
within the camera itself so we have those options then there's some others here with scene detection
and more so you can set that up if you'd like to use those now as far as facetime calls it will use
center stage and other apps will also but let's go into the camera and take a look at it and see what
the microphones are like as well so we're in the camera here spin it around and you'll see we have
this little button here and this button allows us to kind of zoom out so if i zoom out you'll
see more of the studio here this gives you an idea of what it looks like and then if we go to video
again now at the top we have hd30 so if we tap on this hd60 720p in hd 30 or 60 for the
forward-facing camera 4k for the rear camera let's go ahead and hit record and now you can
see what the video looks like on the front-facing camera of the ipad air 5th generation you can also
hear the microphones apple does a really good job with those so let me know if you think it
sounds as good as or better than the studio mic that i'm using here i'd love to hear from you in
the comments below and so this should be really helpful where you can zoom out with center stage
and just use that as your studio camera or maybe a web camera things like that if it's good enough
for you the microphones tend to be really good on these so that should be great to have just
to have this lying around now the big question i think for anyone considering this or ipad pro
if you're looking for maybe an ipad this size this 11 inch size or 11 inch display or so
i would probably go with the air this time around because it has the m1 the pro the
smaller size does not get the mini led display so there's not a huge advantage there you're
just lacking two speakers so let's take a listen to the speakers see what they're like on here
and see what we've got for that so i'll install youtube and we'll watch one of my videos quick
now this is one of my videos that's in hdr so i just wanted to show you that you can actually
watch hdr content on this ipad it just won't go to the super bright 1000 or 1200 nits of your iphone
or the latest ipad pro with mini led so you can see we have 4k hdr or 2160p hdr
and you can watch that content here if you wanted to do that so it just won't go as bright but
you'll be able to see it and it will look pretty nice now let's take a listen to the speakers
so these are some pretty impressive speakers they went over 80 decibels and up to about 83 84 and
they sound great at the highest volume in fact i don't think you would be disappointed with this
compared to an ipad pro that has four speakers it sounds pretty good and it's plenty loud
so that's a great thing of course you get spatial audio and more if you want to use it with that
now there's not a whole lot more to talk about with an initial unboxing if you want to see a full
review i'll use this for about a week before i review it give it a fair amount of time to use it
every single day let me know if you'd like to see anything specific you haven't seen anywhere else
in the comments below now if you'd like to get your hands on this latest wallpaper or the other
wallpapers from the ipad air 5th generation i'll link them in the description like i normally do
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