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Dave Taylor - of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ - looks at Apple iPad Mini cases and covers from Apple, STM Bags, Waterfield Design and Cygnett, finding things to like about almost every one.
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oh hi
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dave taylor here and you know when i
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hang out at cafes
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i spend a lot of time using my ipad mini
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and
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by default the case i have on it is the
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nice little apple slim case
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but there are plenty of times this isn't
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really enough protection
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and frankly these are kind of fragile
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so i've got a whole pile of different
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ipad mini cases and we're going to step
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through them all and see which ones i
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like
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and how much they cost so let's start
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out with a quick overview
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so this is the stm
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skinny this thing's only 20 bucks really
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good deal
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in a minute i'll show you what it looks
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like with the ipad inside i have two
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from
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signet this first one is the workmate
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and this is pretty cool if you've seen
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like otterbox and those other sort of
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rubberized cases
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this is in that class and this one runs
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a little more expensive it's about
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40 bucks but it has great levels of
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protection
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sigma also has something called the
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enigma and as you'll see
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i find these a little bit confusing to
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work with because they have all sorts of
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different folds so your stand can be at
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different angles but we'll get back to
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that and this is also 39
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and finally a special guest water field
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makes this really great
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it's kind of hard to see inside but
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you'll see this is sort of like
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like an oversized wallet for your ipad
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and actually i can show you right now
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that i can even use this cover on it
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and it slips right in and in terms of
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being able to carry your
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ipad mini around it's super great it has
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play a space for a book for cables
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notes that you might be working on and
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this
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this runs around 59 bucks so it's pretty
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expensive
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but it's really really top-end
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development and
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the way that it's built is really
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terrific so
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that's the water field case and let me
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pull my ipad out
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give me a minute and we'll switch things
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around
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so the first case up is the stm skinny
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and as you can see
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my ipad's inside and it's skinny
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so it has all the back padding that
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you'd want for it to stay safe let's
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move this out of the way
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and it also has the ability to go into a
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variety of shapes
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it has this sort of catch on the back so
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you can do this
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and now you have an extremely stable
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stand
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and of course because the ipad orients
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differently
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as you are moving around i can also do
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that
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and is this is actually perfect for
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reading so
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i like the stm skinny again it's
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definitely the least expensive of these
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at 19.99 through e-bags
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it's list price is a little higher but
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it comes in a bunch of different colors
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and
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once you put that on there it's nice and
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secure so
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that's the stm skinny sorry that's the
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skinny on the stm skinny
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next up is the signet enigma and this
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one
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is a little more interesting it's a very
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similar case it doesn't have the little
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flap that goes around it
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to keep it closed but what it has is
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i don't know if you can see there it has
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all these different
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fold areas so you can fold it like this
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as you can see it's sort of this origami
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thing going on there's
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different ways you can fold it here you
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can roll it up
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like a traditional apple pad or apple
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cover
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and as you can see with my strugglings
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here
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i just have a hard time with this case i
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don't know what the story is you can
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fold it this way maybe that one works
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better let's see
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so so there are ways that this works
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really well
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apparently i lack the prowess to do so
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myself
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but i would say for this particular case
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if you have if you know someone that has
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one try it
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but i have a couple of cases that are
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the same basic idea where there's
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different ways to fold it to get it to
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do different things
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and i find them really kind of annoying
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so i can't say that i recommend
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this particular one but that isn't to
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say that there's not really cool cases
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from cygnet so give me yet another
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second and i'll switch my ipad
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into the signet workmate and that one i
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like a lot more
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so the last case we're going to look at
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is the signet workmate and this one
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same price as for the enigma it's 39
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but this one it i have sort of a subtle
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two-tone going on here but it's
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black and sort of a dark gray
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and what i really like about these is
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that this is a rubberized case so this
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is super strong
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now there's nothing protecting the front
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and the way it's designed i can't then
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put the apple cover on it
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so that might be something you want to
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look at but otherwise
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in terms of having something that's
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tough that you can hold on to and you
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can really
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you know feel like if you drop it even
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face down because it's actually slightly
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beveled
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it's really safe this is a pretty tough
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case for your ipad mini
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so in summary we have the sort of
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different variations
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starting with the water field which i
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really like this is a really nice way to
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carry around my ipad mini
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to the different styles of cases from
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stm and cygnet
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oh and i got one more this is also from
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waterfield
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so you have that sort of design here for
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a little carrying case they just took
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the same idea and made it into a wallet
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so this is the fin wallet and as you can
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see it's the perfect size for my iphone
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yeah i'm deep in the apple zone you guys
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already knew that
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so it's the perfect size for an iphone
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and you can even slip in a couple of
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credit cards or something so it turns
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out to be a really nice wallet and
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here's the thing is that waterfield has
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really beautiful materials they work
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with so this is 39 bucks
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this is the same price as this workmate
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case
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but you know the workmate this is a nice
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ipad mini case
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this is a really nice piece of leather
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this is the kind of thing where you
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would actually want to leave it out on
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the table
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so that people can actually admire your
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fabulous good taste
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so this is dave taylor we've looked at a
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bunch of different ipad mini cases
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which one's the best for you i can't say
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that but now you at least have a sense
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of some of the really good choices out
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there
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and we also had a quick look at the fin
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wallet from waterfield
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lots of cool stuff out there and i'll
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see you in my next video
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