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Apple Pencil (1st generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch and Smart Keyboard

Apple announced three products on 11 November 2015: Apple Pencil (1st generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch and Smart Keyboard. The day spanned Accessories and iPad.

It was the 10th of 10 dated moments the archive holds for 2015, 12 days after the previous one, 30 October 2015.

Apple Pencil (1st generation) product photograph

FASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0

What Apple announced

Apple Pencil (1st generation)

Accessories · Pencil · in production

Apple Pencil is a line of wireless stylus pen accessories designed and developed by Apple Inc. for use with supported iPad tablets.

The first-generation Apple Pencil was announced alongside the first iPad Pro on September 9, 2015. It communicates wirelessly via Bluetooth and has a removable cap that conceals a Lightning connector used for charging. The Pencil is compatible with the first- and second-generation iPad Pro models, and the sixth through eleventh-generation iPad models (with the latter two requiring a USB-C adapter).

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iPad Pro 12.9-inch

iPad · iPad Pro · discontinued 5 June 2017

The iPad Pro is a series of tablet computers, positioned as the premium line of Apple's iPad brand. Models run iPadOS, a tablet-optimized fork of the iOS operating system. Early models were distinguished from other iPads by their ability to use the Apple Pencil stylus and their larger screen size. As other iPads have gained these features over time, the latest eighth-generation iPad Pro is notable among other features for its powerful processor (the M5) and being the thinnest Apple product ever released.

The original iPad Pro was introduced in September 2015 and ran iOS 9. It had an A9X chip, and came in two sizes: 9.7 inches (250 mm) and 12.9 inches (330 mm); the 9.7-inch came out in March 2016. The second-generation iPad Pro was unveiled during the June 2017 WWDC event. It came with an upgraded A10X Fusion processor and superseded the 9.7-inch model with a 10.5-inch (270 mm) model. The third-generation iPad Pro was announced in October 2018 with a new screen design. As a part of the redesign, the home button was removed in favor of Face ID. It comes in 11-inch (280 mm) and 12.9-inch models.

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Smart Keyboard

Accessories · Keyboards · discontinued 7 May 2024

The archive holds no written summary for this product. Its photographs, family, and dates are on its product page.

Apple Pencil (1st generation) product photograph
Apple Pencil (1st generation)

FASTILY · CC BY-SA 4.0

iPad Pro 12.9-inch product photograph
iPad Pro 12.9-inch

彭家杰 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Smart Keyboard product photograph
Smart Keyboard

KKPCW · CC BY-SA 4.0

Also in 2015

Sources

  1. Apple Pencil (1st generation) · Wikipedia
  2. iPad Pro 12.9-inch · Wikipedia
  3. Smart Keyboard · Wikipedia

Dates on this page are announcement dates, not shipping dates. Product summaries are drawn from the linked articles, and specification claims in them are the publisher’s, not independent testing. Photograph credits and licences are listed in full on the image credits page.