The iPad mini Smart Cover offers some protection and convenience, but it is relatively expensive and doesn’t offer as much protection as some iPad mini users need. Although we strongly recommend ...

Surreptitiously introduced to Apple Stores in the midst of new MacBook introductions and hardware refreshes, the Smart Case is Apple's latest official option for iPad protection. It's teamed together ...

Apple's Smart Cover is a great, versatile screen cover for your iPad 2. It allows you to stand your tablet up, prop it up for typing in landscape and more; it even turns the iPad off automatically ...

Apple today announced Smart Covers to go along with the new iPad 2. The slim yet sturdy Smart Cover protects your iPad 2 screen without covering up its durable aluminum back. So your iPad still looks ...

The iPad 2 Smart Cover allows you to turn the iPad 2 on ad off by opening and closing the Smart Cover, much like the light in your fridge. This magnetic marvel is a handy feature and now that ...

Magnets: How do they work? Differently on the new iPad than on the iPad 2, it has emerged – and that’s bad news for anyone with an old or third-party smart cover. A number of users who bought new ...

The original iPad really worked best when in a case, but as Steve Jobs lamented in launching the iPad 2, most iPads have had their beautiful design—toiled over by Apple’s finest aesthetes!—cloaked by ...

I'll admit it: One of the main reasons I traded in my first-gen iPad for an iPad 2 was the Smart Cover, Apple's ingenious magnetic half-case-half-stand. It turns out that the faster processor and ...

Intrepid DIY repair advocate iFixit has given both the iPad 2 and its matching Smart Cover a full disassembly. While the iPad 2 itself contains few surprises inside, both it and the Smart Cover ...

If you like the idea of the iPad's slim "smart cover" and would like that same convenience on your iPhone, Cult of Mac has a clever solution that requires a simple case and a jailbreak tweak. Cult of ...

[Photo: Apple] Apple’s Smart Covers are pretty cool–they attach magnetically to your iPad 2, and you can lock your iPad’s screen simply by “closing” the cover. Lift the cover off the screen, and your ...