Review: Apple’s new Smart Folio covers for 2018 iPad Pro—slim but pricey

Older iPads had Smart Covers, but they don’t check the novel iPad Pro models introduced inwards 2018 then Apple has decided to come upward up amongst all-new slim covers for the pro tablet, called Smart Folios.

Apple Smart Folio review

This year’s iPad Pro models give you lot the selection betwixt Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio case, which nosotros reviewed recently, together with the Smart Folio covers that our resident video guy Harris Craycraft has taken a closer await at inwards the hands-on walkthrough video embedded below.

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Made of polyurethane, the novel Smart Folio cases offering protection for both the forepart together with dorsum cheers to to a greater extent than than a hundred magnets placed strategically inwards these novel iPad Pros together with Smart Folios. The instance attaches magnetically to the dorsum of the tablet together with provides open-to-wake together with close-to-sleep functionality similar to the master Smart Cover.

The soft textile on the within protects your iPad concealment whilst a three-fold blueprint makes it slowly to opened upward together with unopen the comprehend or work your tablet at a slight angle when typing. Like amongst Smart Covers, the Smart Folio instance tin also concur your iPad inwards an upright seat at an angle suitable for watching video, conducting FaceTime calls together with enjoying your photos.

Apple’s Smart Folio for the 2018 iPad Pros are magnetic – simply 2 apartment pieces ? New blueprint hither for Apple. pic.twitter.com/m80MDqTt14

— Harris (@_craycraft) November 2, 2018

The potent magnets foreclose the instance from falling off easily. You et protection for the iPad’s back, too—unlike amongst the master Smart Cover that protected the forepart but non the back. Too bad Smart Folios are significantly to a greater extent than expensive than their Smart Cover counterparts.

Due to their size together with to a greater extent than magnets inwards them than before, Smart Folios are bulkier together with heavier than Smart Covers. They also attract fingerprints together with dirt due to the stuff used (Apple currently doesn’t sell leather Smart Folios similar it does for the 10.5-inch iPad Pro).

Pricing together with availability

You tin boot the bucket a Smart Folio comprehend for your 2018 iPad Pro from such retailers every bit Amazon (11-inch version; 12.9-inch version), B&H (11-inch version, 12.9-inch version) together with others, inwards add-on to Apple itself (11-inch version; 12.9-inch version).

Both sizes are available inwards White together with Charcoal Gray but the 11-inch Folio comes inwards an additional Pink Sand finish. The 11-inch i costs $79 together with the bigger 12.9-inch edition is $99.

Pricey or?

Are the novel Smart Folio covers to a greater extent than practical than the master Smart Cover, practise you lot think? And are they worth the rather steep bespeak price, inwards your personal opinion? Let us know past times chiming inwards amongst your thoughts together with observations inwards the comments department downward below.

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