Apple's Smart Cover is great. Using the built-in magnets to turn the iPad 2 on and off is genius. At the end of the day, however, the Smart Cover is simply that—just a cover. It does a good job of ...

At today's Apple event, where the world was first introduced to the iPad 2, one thing stood out to me above everything else. Many of the new features and specs had been leaked, or correctly guessed, ...

In case you missed it in our live blog, here’s a quick unboxing of the iPad 2 and one of Apple’s new magnetic Smart Covers. Apple’s packaging is elegant, as usual, but doesn’t include much beyond the ...

We bought two brand-new iPad 2s and equipped one with Apple’s smart cover and one without. We did some drop tests from waist and shoulder height to see if Apple’s smart cover can protects your iPad.

If you’ve already managed to place your iPad 2 order on Apple’s site, then you can’t have failed to notice the lovely array of Smart Covers that are available to order as well. The colourful ...

Need to break into a passcode-protected iPad 2? All you need is a Smart Cover. The security exploit, reported by 9to5Mac, allows limited access to the iPad 2 running iOS 5, but could expose e-mails ...

Although we don't exactly know how they work, magnets are one of Earth's many fascinations and are used in many gadgets today -- perhaps most notably in Apple's new Smart Covers. As you might have ...

With an upcoming patch to its iOS mobile operating system, Apple will fix a glaring flaw in the iPad 2 that lets anyone break into a passcode-protected, locked device simply by opening and closing the ...

A final ruling has come down from the appeals court, and Apple is on the hook for import duties on the long-discontinued iPad 2 Smart Cover The Cupertino tech giant first urged the Federal Circuit to ...

I liked the original Smart Cover for the iPad, but I didn’t love it. With the new, smaller $39 Smart Cover targeting the iPad mini, Apple introduced new, more troublesome flaws. Like the original ...