Here's What Could Be In Store For Apple's 2019 iPad Pro – The Fool Motley

At its product launch event on October 30, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduces new versions of its high-end iPad Pro tablets. The new tablets are offered in versions with screens of 11 and 12.9 inches – the first is a little larger than the 10.5 inches of the model from last year, while that of the last is identical to that of his predecessor, but that the camera itself is smaller thanks to thin glasses.

In addition to the new case design, the new iPad Pro incorporate a new Bionic A12X chip significantly faster than the previous generation A10X Fusion, remove the Home button and the Touch ID to the benefit of sweeping gestures and the Facial recognition technology Face ID of the company. , and can be configured with up to 1TB of internal storage.

Source of the image: Apple.

Oh, and the company has also introduced a second-generation Apple pencil for devices.

The Ming-Chi Kuo analyst at TF International Securities recently released a report (via MacRumors) in which he talked about one of the key new features that he expects to see in the Apple's next iPad Pro. Let's take a closer look at this question and offer ideas on what Apple could do better with next-generation iPad Pro tablets.

iPad Pro takes flight

Kuo wrote that it was giving better chances than even the iPad introduced by Apple in the fourth quarter of 2019 or the first quarter of 2020 "can adopt [time-of-flight]. "

As MacRumors explains, "[a] The time-of-flight camera system is designed to determine the distance between objects by measuring the flight time of a light or laser signal between the camera and the subject at each point of the image. "

In simple terms, the camera facing the back of the next iPad Pro should benefit from 3D detection.

"We believe that 3D modeling captured by ToF, and then modified by an Apple pencil on iPad, will create a whole new productivity experience for design applications, in a totally different way than computers," Kuo said. .

By allowing interesting use cases that are simply not possible (or practical) in any other form, Apple could help boost demand for its latest iPad products. During the 2018 fiscal year of Apple, iPad device shipments were roughly uniform, at 43.5 million units, and revenues fell by 2%.

Beyond the camera

Although the potential upgrade of the iPad Pro camera seems quite convincing, it is unlikely that Apple's powerful research and development organization is content with a single upgrade. In the next iPad Pro, expect that Apple will provide a new A13X application processor significantly improving the performance of the graphics processor, the processor and the neural engine (used for the tasks of the computer). machine learning) compared to the current generation A12X Bionic.

The A12X Bionic is already the best of its class among the relevant performance drivers, and I'd expect it to continue with iPad Pro tablets next year, which will be probably powered by an A13X chip.

Display is an essential part of any computer experience. That's why the company invests so heavily that its peripherals all have great screens. The latest Apple iPad Pro still use LCDs, or LCDs, instead of the OLED technology that the company uses in its latest iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max smartphones.

The LCD screens of the new iPad Pro are, of course, very nice. NotebookCheck tests on the 12.9-inch model reveal that the screen is very bright, that the colors are accurate and that the contrast ratio is very high, from 1975 to 1. – However, OLED displays have advantages such as Higher contrast and faster pixel response times. However, about a year ago, Bloomberg said that this year's iPad iPads would not have OLED screens due to "technical and financial constraints".

If Apple and its screen manufacturing partners can solve these problems and offer brilliant, fast and aesthetic OLED screens to next year's iPad Pro tablets, it could be happening at a glance. significant upgrade from one generation to the next.

Ashraf Eassa does not hold any of the shares mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares and recommends Apple. The Motley Fool offers the following options: Long calls from $ 150 to January 2020 for Apple and short calls from $ 155 to January 2020 on Apple. Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.