I may decide it’s too heavy to carry around routinely, or too heavy to hold in bed. So it’s entirely possible that while the size feels completely fine, the weight may not. The 12.9-inch model, though, weighs 1.4 pounds – almost 40% heavier. My 10.5-inch iPad weighs 1.05 pounds, and the new 11-inch one 1.03 pounds. Size is, of course, only half the equation. And I just did the ‘laying on my side in bed with it’ test for ebook reading, and it felt perfectly comfortable to hold. I will need to get a bigger shoulder bag for it, but not one that’s going to feel over-sized. I reluctantly returned the 12.9-inch one.īut this one feels much smaller. I’d already mocked it up with cardboard, but the case gives a much better feel for the size. Much as I would like to have kept the large one for sofa use and the smaller one for mobile and bedtime reading, I couldn’t justify the cost of two iPads. It required a larger bag than I wanted to carry casually around town, and felt enormous when reading ebooks in bed. I loved, loved, loved the screen size of the original 12.9-inch model. No point in having that lovely thin device if you’re going to have it feel thicker while using it.īut much more importantly, the good news: it doesn’t feel big. But still, I tend to remove the Smart Cover when using my existing iPad, using it only for protection in a bag or carrying it around the apartment, and I’ll do the same with the Smart Folio when the new one arrives. It doesn’t feel terrible – it’s a pleasant-feeling smooth material – but it doesn’t have anything like the same premium feel as leather. I have the leather Smart Cover for my 10.5-inch iPad, but the Smart Folio for the new ones is, as I feared, silicone/plastic. I was suspicious when the folio case listing on Apple’s website said nothing about the material. That paid off, as I took delivery a few minutes ago. When I ordered my 12.9-inch iPad Pro, I placed my order for the Smart Folio case separately, in the hope that it might arrive earlier – and give me a sneak preview of the size.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |