Review: iPad mini Smart Cover disappoints compared to its predecessor
I liked the original Smart Cover for the iPad , but I didn’t love it. With the new, smaller $39 Smart Cover targeting the iPad mini, Apple introduced new, more troublesome flaws.
Like the original version, the iPad mini Smart Cover relies on magnets built into the iPad itself. Magnets in the hinge of the cover cling to the left edge of the iPad (as you face it in portrait mode); magnets on the right edge lock the cover to the iPad, and cause it to wake up automatically when you open the cover.
The iPad mini Smart Cover is available in pink, light gray, dark gray, green, blue, and (Product) red. It’s available only in polyurethane; there are no leather options. As with the current slate of iPad Smart Covers unveiled with the iPad 2, the iPad mini Smart Covers bear the same color on both sides—the interiors are dyed, screen-cleaning and protecting microfiber cloth.
The iPad mini is on the left; the full-size iPad is on the right.
The original Smart Cover sports three creases at which it can fold. The smaller iPad mini Smart Cover instead employs just two. You can still fold the smaller cover into a triangle shape similar to the one used by the original, which in turn allows you to prop the iPad in one of two positions: at a low incline for typing, and at a steep one for watching video. Because it has one fewer fold, the iPad mini Smart Cover’s triangle has no overlapping sides the way the original cover does, but in my testing that didn’t make the smaller cover any less sturdy when folded up.
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