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iPad Air 2 Gold Option Possibly Arriving Next Month

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Gold has been a popular color option for iPhones ever since it was introduced a year ago with the iPhone 5s, and it seems that Apple will be doing the same thing with the new iPads that are expected to launch next month.

According to Bloomberg, Apple will add a gold color option to the iPad lineup for the first time come next month in an effort to hopefully get buyers to ogle over the new iPad color and increase sales.

However, the report only mentions the gold color option coming to the full-size iPad with no mention of whether or not we’ll see the iPad mini arrive in gold at some point.

In any case, this will put the iPad on par with the iPhone as far as color options, offering Space Gray, Silver, and Gold options for buyers.

Apple is expected to release a new full-size iPad later next month, along with a new iPad mini. Not a whole lot is known about the iPad Air 2 or the iPad mini 3, but we’ve seen some leaked photos that suggest what we might see come next month.

The iPad Air 2 isn’t expected to get a huge redesign, as the iPad Air was the model to see a major refresh. Apple typically doesn’t overhaul its products’ designs until a couple of generations have passed, so we can expect the iPad Air 2 to keep the same overall look as the iPad Air, except for some small, but impactful changes.

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The new iPad could come with recessed volume and power buttons, as well as a redesigned speaker grille. The volume buttons look to keep the same design as the iPad Air, but are simply recessed slightly into the body of the tablet. As for the speaker grille, the leaked photos that we’ve seen show the iPad sporting a single horizontal line of larger holes, which is a drastic difference than the smaller holes that were arranged in two rows on the iPad Air.

Furthermore, it’s already been rumored a couple times this year that the iPad would get Touch ID fingerprint sensor capabilities. We even saw hints of Touch ID capabilities in the code of iOS 7.1 back in April, and a few days later we heard that one of Apple’s part suppliers were cranking out Touch ID fingerprint sensors in large quantities.

In a few lines of code in iOS 7.1, it’s been discovered that Touch ID just might be headed to iPad sooner or later. Several of the lines of code that serve as the framework for Touch ID are being listed as compatible with both the iPhone and the iPad, which can only mean that Apple is at least testing out Touch ID functionality on the iPad.

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Then again, code or no code, it seems likely that Apple will introduce Touch ID to the iPad lineup at some point, especially after how big of a feature it became with the iPhone 5s; it’s certainly one of the best hardware features we’ve seen on an iOS product to date, and Apple will likely capitalize on that fact.

Touch ID was definitely one of the features that users were looking forward to ahead of the iPad Air event back in October last year, especially after it was introduced on the new iPhone 5s just a month earlier, but Apple sadly did not deliver such a feature.

Technically, we weren’t too surprised about this, as it’s possible that Apple wanted the Touch ID technology to be around for a year or so and see how it did before expanding the feature to other iOS devices. However, it’s still a possibility with the iPad Air 2 that we’ll most likely see later this year into the fall.

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