My mini review of the iPad Air 2:

Great review Eileen, everything appears to be a positive. Glad you are enjoying it.

Looking forward to more.


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I just traded in my Air for the Air 2, yesterday. I did it mostly for the additional memory of 64 vs 32.

It is a wifi only model, and BB had/has a great deal going where I only paid $250+tax out of pocket with trade.

I haven't had much time to play with it yet but the bump in speed is noticeable.

More to follow


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That's a shame. My wife replaced her first-gen iPad Mini with a 64gig Air 2. She hadn’t mentioned any of those issues so I just asked and she said that hers has been working great. Her TouchID still works fine and no issues with Safari. Her only complaint is that the battery life seems to be less than her iPad Mini 1 that it replaced.

She doesn’t use it for music or watching anything longer than an occasional web video, so she may not notice the vibration thing. Is it only when you have the volume turned up louder than the previous models went?

I’ve been noticing issues with Safari on all of my devices that all seem to be related to javascript triggered content loading. I identified that the new “Don’t ask me for website notifications” setting in Safari on the desktop caused the worst of them, but some sites still get tripped up from time to time. Especially Google with their new auto-loading while tying approach.

Also, there were reports of a bad batch of 128gb memory modules in iPhones. I note that yours was 128gb. I wonder if that's related?

—Josh

 

My two cents:

Eileen, sorry to hear that you had to return yours. I agree that the Air to Air 2 isn't worth that many headaches. I went through my Air crashing and closing out apps as well and put up with it for three months until an update fixed it. I was running out of storage with my 32 Air and that's the primary factor in my going to the Air 2, all the other speed bumps are a plus but not a must.

Josh, glad to hear she is not having the same problems. The vibration is there and is quite strong but I am guessing with TPU cover she has, it dampens it. I only have a Smart Cover on so the back is bare. If I ever get my TPU case I will see if it makes a difference.

Mine has behaved reasonably well, here are some issues I have:

1. The screen turned black in the middle of my doing something once and I had to do a hard reset to bring it back to life. Interestingly the same thing happened to my phone once and I am guessing it's from my restoring both devices from backup. Knock on wood it hasn't happened since.

2. I keep losing my multi tasking gesture and have to flip the switch off and on and it will work for awhile. This seems to me an ongoing issue and one I am hoping is software related and will be taken care of soon.

The battery life is about an hour or so less than my Air but still tolerable. The battery life had decreased considerably on the Air recently and that was a bit disappointing. I had the iPad 2 for 3 years with no noticeable change in battery life.

I find the sounds to be rather muted, the power off click is hardly noticeable unless I am listening for it.

All in all I sm happy with it and plan to keep using it.

 

Upset to hear about your troubles.

The 5.5" iP6+ is a good size and I can see how it would displace the need for an iPad (at least the mini). I actually like the iP6+ and it feels okay in my hand. I just know it would be impractical to carry around- I probably drop it.

I'm feeling a bit the same. The 4.7" iP6 is doing well, and I wonder why I'm not using my mini as much anymore. I might trade in for the larger retina iPad..so not happy hear of these problems.

I'd say in general, the 8.1 has had more problems then other releases. On all my devices sometimes the touch screen is unresponsive, and there are crashes more frequently (coming from near zero before). Not a big deal, but it is unsettling.

I finally learned that I cannot do AirDrop from my Mac to iDevice since it works only with 2012 or newer macs. Yet, the App InstaShare works fine and has for over a year. What gives with that?

 

Interesting about the Safari issues, glad it wasn't just me. I just sold my Air because I couldn't take the issues I was having. I replaced it with an Asus Transformer T100. It's nice having sites load and working correctly. With all the searching I have been doing Safari was not cutting it.

 

Budney, Air or Air 2?

 

I had the Air.

 

I believe this is first where I am not having the problems others are and my Air 2 is near perfect (knocks on head)

I had every problem that the original Air could possibly have that was reported. I was very disappointed coming from two perfect devices, the iPad 2 and the iPhone 5.

I am glad the iPad 2 is holding up so far.

I forgot to mention in my previous post that I exchanged my first iPad after a day of usage because the home button was too soft almost mushy with a barely audible click. It worked fine but I was concerned that it may not be seated properly and would quit at the most in opportune time.


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After my first week:

The only app that has crashed a couple times on me is the Apple Reminder app. However it does also crash from time to time on my iPhone and did as well on my first iPad and iPhone 5s, so definitely a software issue.

The Multi Tasking gesture appears to be working more consistently ever since I reminded it "gently" that it can be replaced with Nexus 9

The battery life is not as good as my Air was when new but I kind of knew that going in, so not a disappointment.

The speed increase is noticeable as is the overall smoothness

Unlike other, the finger print sensor is not my favorite, it keeps ignoring my right thumb on both my devices as it did on my 5s. Maybe it's my thumb.

Interestingly the biggest problem I am having with it is finding a case. The SmartCover from my Air works but not the Apple leather case. Besides I wouldn't want that case again, the cover never laid down flat and it was a struggle to use it as a stand.

I ordered a TPU case that can be used with the SmartCover but that is now on backorder. Anyone have any recommendations?


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Well just ditched my mini and iPad Gen 3 ( first Retina) for the iPad Air 2.

Part of the club.

 

Congrats, hope you enjoy it.

Space Grey, 64 GB?

What case?


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Yes. No case yet. Starting to research.

 

Hi Eileen, thanks for the case recommendation.

I requested cancellation of my other case and ordered the Luvitt Dolce, which is your case but with the side cut out for the SmartCover .

With my trial Prime Membership I was guaranteed Monday delivery. I may end with two but that may not be all bad.

Hmm, I wonder what the Touch ID has against right thumbs.


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I just not sure about cases. I ordered the Bear Motion case. I had it before, it's well made and inexpensive. Comes with nice cloth pouch too.

But what do you think about this thin one? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00LVUACA6/ref=aw_d_pd_wireless

 

I had the Bear Motion case on my Moto X and really liked it. What color did you order? I just ordered the purple one, should be here Tuesday.


The leather case is very nice looking but I don't know anything about it. From my previous experience it is hard to match leather colors, even when they were both from Apple so I wasn't even looking at leather.

I like the slim profile of the Air 2, so was looking at getting a minimalistic case.

Did you order the case? I am looking forward to your review of it.

About the iPad itself, it decided to freeze on me trying to do a search for iPad cases on Safari, this is a first and I hoping doesn't happen too many more times.


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I got the leather brown Bear Motion but a different style than yours. Mine is thicker.

Yes I ordered the thinner KAVAJ leather. It's looks really nice in the cognac color. But it's in back order until the 24th. I needed something so hence the cheap Bear Motion.

I also got this gel back which can be used with an Apple Smart Cover. In general I don't like the stand mechanism of the Apple cover but it is thin and removable. The combo got great reviews. They also have a hard back cover version.

I got smoke grey. Even comes in blue.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OC...416221268&sr=8-1-spell&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

So far Safari is good.

 

The TPU case came in today. It's frosted and looks and feels very nice. The side cutout is perfect for the SmartCover.

My plans are to only use the cover when I take it out of the house.

The safari crashed and froze the iPad once again while doing a mundane search. I just upgraded it to 8.1,1, hope the bug fixes mentioned include the iPad crashing.



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