Speck’s PixelSkin HD Wrap case is like the Apple Smart Cover, but without the smarts
Speck’s brand-new iPad 2 case shows the kind of direction third-party case makers can go in now that Apple has pretty much sewn up the covers market with its Smart Cover. Speck’s PixelSkin HD Wrap case takes some design cues from Apple’s cover, but adds a lot more protection for the paranoid and clumsy.
The PixelSkin HD uses no magnets. Instead you get a waffly, “pixelated” rubber skin which covers the back and edges. The front flap is jointed, though, just like the Apple one, and rolls into a supportive triangle.
With its bumper/skin design, the PixelSkin obviously doesn’t need the hinge magnets to hold it in place, but it could really do with a screen locking and unlocking magnet at the front. I have a feeling that once we’re used to the iPad automatically waking and sleeping as we open and close a cover, swiping to unlock is going to get old pretty fast.
Fortunately, if you can spare one of the fridge magnets that is holding the frankly terrible “painting” from your three-year-old onto your refrigerator, then you could simply tape that onto the case for the same functionality.
The PixelSkin comes in pink, blue and black, and will ship “soon” for $50.
PixelSkin HD [Speck. Thanks, Edith!]
Source:wired.com
Posted under Gadget Reviews
This post was written by Journalist on March 16, 2011
your pretty mean to make fun of a 3 year old’s painting…haha but still i don’t get the article do you like it or not and should i get smart cover or this. I’m not super lazy about swiping my finger though so I don’t really care about that part.