iPad Air 2 Release Date And Specs: Another Apple Launch Slated For Late 2014? New Slate To Have A8 Processor, 8MP iSight Camera And 1.5MP Front Camera

New reports from a South Korean news agency suggest new information about the iPad Air 2's release date and specs.

According to the reports, it might be sure that the iPad Air 2 specs will include an A8 processor and the same 8MP iSight camera.  No further upgrades will be made to its resolution too as it is rumored to have the same 2048 x 1536 resolution.

These latest reports have been republished by ETNews just recently when they released an article about the much awaited launch of the new iPad.  The report went on to say that there is a rumored upgrade on the iPad Air 2's front camera- 1.5MP from its 1.2MP predecessor.

AnandTech's Anand Lai Shimpi has also released his predictions for the new iPad.  Shimpi is regarded as an authority in mobile technology.

"By now we know to expect an "A8" branded Apple SoC in the iPhone 6 and iPad Air successors later this year. There's little benefit in going substantially wider than Cyclone, but there's still a ton of room to improve performance. One obvious example would be through frequency scaling. Cyclone is clocked very conservatively (1.3GHz in the 5s/iPad mini with Retina Display and 1.4GHz in the iPad Air), assuming Apple moves to a 20nm process later this year it should be possible to get some performance by increasing clock speed scaling without a power penalty. I suspect Apple has more tricks up its sleeve than that however. Swift and Cyclone were two tocks in a row by Intel's definition, a third in 3 years would be unusual but not impossible (Intel sort of committed to doing the same with Saltwell/Silvermont/Airmont in 2012 - 2014)."

Meanwhile, KGI Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggested that the iPad Air 2 release date is slated towards the end of 2014.

According to Knowyourmobile.com, "Kuo also claims that Apple will not be releasing an updated iPad Mini with retina in 2014 nor a larger, iPad Pro model - the latter is apparently coming in 2015. Kuo also predicted correctly that Apple would release a cut-rate iPad 4 in Q1 2014."

Stay tuned for more iPad Air 2 release date and specs news and rumors!