Apple's new wide-screen iPad Pro with powerful A12X Bionic CPU goes on sale in global markets

The recently-unveiled Apple iPad Pro (2018) is now available for purchase in select global markets.

After the MacBook Air and Mac mini, Apple iPad Pro hit stores in the US and 40 international regions, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and UK with prices starting at $799.

Apple has confirmed that the new iPad Pro models will be released later in Colombia, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, India, Israel, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Qatar, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and South Africa in coming months.

The new iPad Pro series comes with two sizes--11.0-inch and 12.9-inch and it can be noted that the former has same dimensions as 10.5-inch model seen in the predecessor, but thanks to new edge-to-edge design, the top and the base bezels have been trimmed.

Surprisingly, the 12.9-inch model has shrunk in terms of the physical stature compared to the 2017-series model, but again thanks to new design technique, the display footprint is the same as the latter.

Also, the new iPad Pro is the Apple's slimmest tablet to date; it comes with just 5.9mm thickness and yet it packs a massive battery, which is capable offering close to 10 hours video playback. It also packs four speakers.

Both the iPad Pro models come with vibrant Liquid Retina Display with True Tone feature similar to the iPhone XR. With wide-screen, watching multimedia content will be an enthralling experience.

The new iPad Pro also comes with another big change is the Type-C USB port, a first for Apple tablet. It offers reverse charging capability in addition to fast charging.

Another first for the iPad is the Face ID, which will validate the owner's face to unlock the screen. An interesting aspect of this feature is that it can recognise the face from any angle, he/she intends to use, unlike iPhone X and later mobiles, where you have to hold them with the upright in portrait stance, with front-camera on top to recognise the face.

Under-the-hood, it also comes with 102 powerful magnets on the back so that the accessories including the newly introduced Pencil (2^nd gen) can attach tightly to the iPad Pro's back seamlessly.

The new generation Apple Pencil is a near-perfect stylus in the market. It comes with wireless charging capability, unlike the predecessor which comes with the weird lightning port to connect to iPad.

Now, the new Pencil can just dock to the iPad and get charged when in idle. Also, it supports smart double touch feature, which allows the user to switch between modes—write or erase or customise to others actions, as well.

As far as the photography hardware is concerned, it comes with a 12MP primary camera with F1.8 aperture and a 7MP FaceTime front camera.

Besides the wide-screen display, another notable aspect of the new iPad Pro is the  7nm class 8-core A12X Bionic Fusion chipset, which is said to be more powerful compared to A12 Bionic seen in iPhone XS and XR series. The former comes with 64-bit class desktop architecture and comes integrated with 7-core GPU, M12 coprocessor and dedicated Neural Engine, which can perform more than 5 trillion operations per second. Already, benchmark scores have surfaced online revealing that Apple's new iPad Pro series is more powerful than some top-end laptops even MacBooks in the market.

When will Apple iPad Pro (2018) come to India?

The company has announced the price of the new Apple iPad Pro and the accessories for the Indian market. Depending on the size and connectivity options (Wi-Fi only or Wi-Fi + LTE), it will cost anywhere between Rs 71,900 to Rs 1,71,900 in India (full price list below).

Apple's second-generation Apple Pencil for the new iPad Pro will be available for Rs 10,900. The new Smart Keyboard Folio for the new iPad Pro is available in space grey for Rs 15,900 for the 11-inch iPad Pro and Rs 17,900 for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with layouts for over 30 languages, including simplified Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

A new Smart Folio for iPad Pro, in a protective, polyurethane folio design, will be available in several colours for Rs 7,500 for the 11-inch iPad Pro and Rs 9,900 for the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

But sadly, Apple has not revealed when the Apple iPad Pro series will hit stores in the sub-continent. Going by previous release pattern, the company is expected to release before the end of November or early December.

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