Sunday, July 27, 2014

Another example of iPad cases which are both good and cheap

[Example are for iPad, but you can find similarly good and cheap cases for Amazon Kindles, for example here and here. Really, it's a cornucopia!]

[Many products are made of "PU leather", which is made from the lower layers of skin (suede) and covered with polyurethane (advanced plastic products). They may be in some aspects superior to real leather, feel good, and often so close to real leather than even experts can have a hard time telling them apart.]


Finding these cheap and good cases have given me a new collectors habit (and a lot cheaper than cameras from eBay).

It gets wilder than last reported, by the way; yesterday I found a full, new, functional iPad case for *three* Pounds (five bucks! With free shipping! How does anybody make money on this?? I pay twice that for a pizza.

A different one, but one of my newest favorites, this croc pattern one. It's only ten bucks (six Sterling). A couple of years ago I paid six times as much for similar cases.
... Maybe some won't like the croc pattern, but seen abstractly (without thinking of $15,000 handbags) it is simply a beautiful pattern. (Most of the colors are too bright though, this goes for almost all the cases I've found. But they usually have some subtler ones too.)

And I wish you could see/feel the inside lining: like velour, rich, deep black, and soft. And the stand function works perfectly on it in any position, without the thick, ungainly ridges many cases/stands have. I don't know how they did that.
And like most cases today, it works with the magnetic closure, turns of the iPad when you close it, and vice-versa.

The iPad Air has a secondary little microphone on the back, which picks up background noise in order to counter-process it out when you're voice- or video-chatting. (And maybe it works opposite when filming.) And the case makers even made a hole for this too! And like the others, it's perfectly fitted over the mike.
Great function, good feel, aesthetics, pretty slim and light weight, and dead cheap, all in one package.


Comes in nine colors. They call this "blue"

The beautiful lining, with good friction for the stand function.

You can vary the angle as you like.
(For me the first iPad was "the birth of the ebook".)

Excellent simplicity.

[By the way, the pictures were taken indoors, hand-held, with my iPhone. Durn good quality, don't you think? Try double-clicking on the one above. It's better than most work I did with film cameras back in the day.]

5 comments:

TC [Girl] said...

I love that "blue"/"turquoise" color...and the bottom..."true blue!" ;-) I love that they have figured out something that doesn't slip nor need those annoying (and restricting) grooves; cool... Thanks for sharing...

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

It's one piece. But the first and last pic are taken in different rooms, and for some reason it looks more blue in the last pic. Perhaps the white balance compensated for the orange, who knows.

TC [Girl] said...

It's one piece. But the first and last pic are taken in different rooms, and for some reason it looks more blue in the last pic. Perhaps the white balance compensated for the orange, who knows.

Too funny...I don't know what I was thinking; the second one looked like a phone stand! And I was looking at them, on my phone, is where I think I got that from... :-/ Either shade/color, it's nice... :-)

CalgaryMark said...

". . . yesterday I found a full, new, functional iPad case for *three* Pounds (five bucks! With free shipping! How does anybody make money on this?? I pay twice that for a pizza."

Why would you wrap an expensive iPad in a cheap (or even an expensive) pizza? And do you put it filling side in or out? ;-)

Unknown said...

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