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60 of 62 humans found the following review helpful.
Works utterly with Smart Cover
By ERIC M HUYNH
I purchased this for my mom as a Mother’s Day present. She has an iPad 2 and loves her Smart Cover, but it left the back of the iPad unprotected and we quickly found that Apple’s aluminum is dismayingly scratch-prone. With a bewildering array of merchandise on the market, I chose this one based on the Amazon reviews. It turned out to be EXACTLY what my mom wanted.
Description: It’s made of a hard, smooth, transparent plastic that snaps on tightly to the back of the iPad 2. There are generous cut-outs for all the ports, cameras, buttons, etc., and the Smart Cover hinges.
Good points:
- Perfect fit. Snaps on and stays on, but also easy to remove when necessary.
- Specially designed to work with Smart Cover with no modifications; it protects what the Smart Cover does not.
- All ports and buttons stay effortlessly accessible; you don’t need microscopic fingers to reach into tiny gaps.
- Transparent (and pattern-free), so you may see the Apple logo and anything you have engraved on the back. This likewise makes it aesthetically neutral, so it will match whatsoever other accessaries you have and will never go out of style.
- Adds minimal thickness and weight to the iPad.
Less-good points (subjective):
- As an owner of the heavier first-gen iPad, I personally prefer a “tackier” grip on the case that makes it having little impact to hold on to without sliding out of your hands. This one is still a bit on the slippery side, but it’s having little impact to hold than the iPad itself. (And if you fold back the Smart Cover rather of removing it, you won’t have the slippery iPad problem anyway.)
- Though the case protects the iPad from scratches, it isn’t scratchproof itself. After months of heavy use, I imagine it will get finelooking scuffed and will be unattractive.
- The case is held on only at the corners, and the lips don’t extend beyond the narrow aluminum rim of the iPad. There’s not one thing wrong with this, but if you have a transparent protective film placed over the screen, this case will NOT aid to hold it down around the edges as some cases will, so the film will be more likely to peel off.
Not sure:
- Based on the thickness and design of this case, I THINK you must be competent to use your iPad with most dock-type merchandise without having to remove it. But we don’t have any docks to experiment with.
- The plastic seems durable, but the case has not been subjected to any (inadvertent) stress tests yet. The lips that hold the case to the iPad are rather little (at the corners only) and if one or two of them broke, the case would be functionally useless.
Overall:
This is incisively the product we wanted, at a very reasonable price. It’s well-designed, well-engineered and is the perfective associate for a Smart Cover.
50 of 53 humans found the following review helpful.
Excellent Fit, Excellent Value, Speedy Delivery
By R.D.2.
By shear luck, I got my iPad 2 the day after it came it out. Clearly I was not the only to recognize that the groovy “smart cover” only protected the front. Unfortunately, it took weeks for the after-market covers to genuinely commence showing up. And when they did, companies were charging $27-$39…for what is basically a piece of plastic. I just couldn’t do it, and kept out for more options.
Then this little item appeared it. I ordered the smart cover associate on the 04/22 (at the time it was $9.99!). It arrived by 04/25, even altho approximated arrival was 04/28 – 05/03.
The “installation”, if you want to call it that, was a breeze. It snapped right on, and once on, there was no give or play.
The case I ordered is crystal clear, not even a logo, which in my opinion is perfective since I didn’t want anything obstructing the design of the iPad itself.
I was so excessively affected emotionally in regards to my iPad 2, I was this close to shelling out $40 bucks for a product that, given the simplicity of the design of ANY given snap-on shell, could not conceivably do the occupation any better.
Well done, Exact-Deal. Bravo.
25 of 28 persons found the following review helpful.
Cheap, but does not stay on well…
By G
I purchased this based on the reviews and the cheap price. I can’t be too disturb over 7 bucks, but this case does not stay on the iPad very well. The corners, while you hold this in your hand, may without apparent effort pop off, freeing the case. I’m not sure if I got a bad one (doubt it, since they’re just flung off plastic mold machine), but I’d spend a bit more cash and get something better. I do not know what that is yet…still searching. The shelter factor (if it stayed on) seems very good.
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