Review: The Enduro Mini battery case for the iPad mini is a letdown
The Enduro Mini is a $60 iPad mini case from Padacs. The case includes a built-in battery for recharging the iPad—and the battery is no slouch: It’s an 8000 milliamp hour battery, which offers about 125 percent the battery life of the iPad mini itself, so you can more than fully recharge the tablet with the case.
I reviewed a black Enduro Mini, though the case is also available in pink and blue. The folio-style case is made of stitched leather. The battery is hidden within the case’s cover. You snap the iPad mini into the case by firmly pushing the corners of the tablet into the four grips on the case.
The Enduro Mini uses a magnet to make its fabric latch adhere to the closed case. There’s also a magnet in place to trigger the iPad’s built-in sleep/wake feature, but it’s a bit fussy. You need to position the case’s cover carefully to ensure that it puts your iPad mini to sleep. I find it’s easy to close the case without the magnet lining up perfectly, leaving the iPad mini awake.
The back of the case includes a cutout for the rear-facing camera. The corner grips cover the sleep/wake button, so you need to curl your finger a bit differently to reach it, but it doesn’t present any difficulty.
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