Friday, March 11, 2011

IPad ‘Smart Cover’ Opens to Instant Access - NYTimes.com

A NYT iPad 2 gestalt snapshot

When Apple begins selling its iPad 2 on Friday evening, many of the new device’s features may be upstaged by a lowly accessory, the “smart cover,” a protective case designed by Apple that snaps onto the iPad through magnets and doubles as a stand.

The cover’s “smarts,” though, come in part from being able to turn the iPad 2 on when you open it and off when you close it. The click and finger swipe — three to four seconds, in an unscientific test — that stood between you and the digital world in the original iPad? Gone.

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Maybe you can judge a tablet by its cover.

IPad ‘Smart Cover’ Opens to Instant Access - NYTimes.com

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