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Used for: 3–6 months
Sleep and wake is completely reliable
Black shows dust immediately
Sleep and wake through the cover works every single time, which the third-party folio I had before managed about half the time. Closing it puts the screen out instantly and there is no waiting when you open it up on a train.
Used for: Less than a month
The pen sits proud and catches on things
No complaints about the case itself, which is why it still gets five. What nobody tells you is that the magnetic back panel and the tablet's own charging pen are fighting for the same strip of edge. With the folio on, the pen still charges, but it sits a fraction proud and catches on the lip of a bag pocket. I have knocked it off twice already and both times it was that lip.
Used for: 3–6 months
The folded stand collapses if the desk gets knocked
Five stars because the thing it is meant to do it does perfectly, and the complaint below is a small one. The folio is magnetic front and back, so the cover comes off entirely when you want the tablet bare, and the back panel stays put on its own. Angles are set by folding the cover into a triangle and there are three of them, all of which hold. The grumble: the magnets that hold the folded triangle together let go if you nudge the desk hard, and the whole thing flattens out with the tablet on it.
Used for: Less than a month
Cover folds into a stand without any fuss
The magnetic back grabs anything metal in a bag
Smart, thin and well finished, and the origami cover is less fiddly than it looks in the pictures. One warning for anyone with a keyboard already: the back panel is magnetic all over, so it will happily stick to a metal shelf or a fridge door, which is a party trick until it grabs something in your bag and pulls the cover open!
Used for: 6–12 months
Grips the desk instead of sliding
Fiddly to get the tall angle first time
Eight months of daily handling and the aramid finish has not picked up the shine that leather cases get. It still grips a desk rather than sliding about, which matters when you write on it. The only thing I would change is the fold. Getting the tallest angle right takes two goes because the magnets grab in the wrong place first!
Used for: 1–3 months
Thin enough that the tablet still feels like a tablet
Tips backwards in the taller stand position
Bought it because the aramid weave looks like nothing else and, six weeks in, that has not worn off. As a case it is genuinely thin. The back panel adds perhaps a millimetre and the tablet still feels like a tablet, which was the whole point after a folio that turned it into a book. The magnets hold hard enough that I can hang the thing off the fridge, and the pen sticks to the side through the case without any loss of grip. What costs it a star is the cover in landscape. Folded flat, it works. Folded into the tall angle, the balance is wrong and it tips backwards if you tap the top of the screen. I use it flat and have stopped worrying about it.
Used for: 1–3 months
Adds almost no weight at all
Weighs almost nothing and the weave looks far better in the hand than in the photos!
Used for: More than a year
The finish has not aged at all
The magnets have weakened slightly
Two years and the weave still looks new, no fraying at the corners where it folds
Used for: 1–3 months
Magnetic pen channel that actually holds
Thin protection, so not one for a building site
The pen holder is the detail that sold me. It is a magnetic channel on the spine rather than a loop, so the pen goes on and off without any thought and has never fallen off in a bag. Protection is a fair trade for the thinness. There is a raised edge around the screen and a lip round the camera, and the corners are reinforced, but this is not a rugged case and would not survive a drop onto stone. For a device that lives on a desk and in a bag, it is exactly right.