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Excellent Sleek iPad Cases Work Really Well-myluxphone

The iPad is an excellent example of great engineering and industrial design, so it’s no surprise that people want to protect their multimedia tablet from scratches, dents and broken displays. Apple released their own cover with the launch of the iPad Cases and it works really well — as long as you’re willing to put up with a couple potential annoyances.

Apple’s iPad case is a sleek folio-style cover that completely covers the multimedia tablet’s body and includes a flip open cover that protects the multi-touch display. Cutouts keep the power, volume and rotation-lock buttons within reach, and the openings for the headphone jack and dock connector are large enough for big fingers without exposing too much of the iPad’s body. A series of small holes over the speaker keep audio from sounding muffled, too.

Apple seems quite proud of their iPad Accessories for the iPad, so I wanted to touch upon my early impressions. No torture test this time as we’ll give this guy away, but below are some notable aspects of the sleeve.

The material is soft and rubbery, not unlike neoprene but denser and quite durable. Nail scratches didn’t seem to faze it, but anything white or gray will appear quite brilliantly because the surface is black. Really, really black — like the ship in ‘Restaurant At the End of the Universe’ black. The seams appear to be held together by some heat-sealing or glue, but in time they could conceivably come apart. There’s some flexible plastic around the part of the sleeve that holds the edges of the iPad, however, and I mashed on the seams a bit and the rubber/plastic just stretched, so the seam appears quite sturdy. That extra plastic ensures a snug fit around the bezel and keeps the iPad from shifting. There’s a stiffer piece of plastic for the cover (which folds back to become a base) which I was able to bend over 45 degrees without worry. It is sturdy and flexible, perhaps magical too? These accessories such as Phone Cases are all available online.

Finally there’s a little flap that holds the iPad in, just inside the part that will be folding over and back repeatedly. This is the one fail point, in my opinion. There’s no real remedy other than some mechanical hinge, but the hinged portion of this case will just keep flexing until the materials wear out. That will likely be 4 iPad revisions from now, but there it is. The iPad took a bit of squeezing the first time, but once you figure out that even pressure is required on both sides of the pad you won’t be regretting that dock you bought. While it could be easier to remove the iPad from the sleeve, it would make it flimsier too, I think.

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