Apple unveils the 1-pound iPad Air with a 9.7-inch Retina display: shipping November

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Speaking at today’s launch event in San Francisco, Phil Schiller announced the next iteration of the company’s tablet. It’s thinner, lighter and more powerful – hence the new name: the iPad Air. (No more of that “new iPad” nonsense.) And Cupertino takes that moniker seriously; this slate weighs …