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Cell-PhoneCover Apple iPad Mini 4 Smart Cover - REVIEW!
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May 29, 2025
If you have an Apple iPad Mini 4, congratulations, you might have the last small iPad Apple makes. With its subtle design changes from earlier generations, though, the challenge with the iPad Mini 4 is to get a good case that fits exactly. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ got a very attractive protective smartcase from Cell-Phonecover.com to test out with his iPad Mini 4, with decidedly mixed results, as shown. Check it out: https://www.cell-phonecover.com/product/leather-2015-perfect-ipad-mini-4-folio-smart-protective-cases-or-covers-ipmc401/
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is this iPad Mini case better than the
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one from Apple let's check it out Dave
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Taylor here and this time I'm looking at
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cases for my iPad Mini fourth-generation
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that's the latest and probably I'm
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guessing the last iPad Mini Apple will
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ever make which is too bad it's such a
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great size but it does leave you with
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the question of what case to use now I'm
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a big fan of Apple Smart Cover and
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that's really nice because you open it
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the device is on you close it the device
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turns off again but that offers really
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very little protection other than for
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the screen itself and tear this this is
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the cell phone cover com iPad Mini for
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cover and yeah not a glamorous name but
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that's okay it's a pretty interesting
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case first thing you notice is that it's
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the front and the back it has a sort of
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a TPU rubber around the sides which you
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then tuck the iPad into so that works
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nicely and it gives you some I suppose
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some protection against it hitting
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things or anything like that and then
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the outside you can see is this nice
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design with different sized circles so
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it looks kind of like bubbles I don't
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know it's just it's attractive and then
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the inside is actually a leathery
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material so it's a nice soft material
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it's funny that on the site they just
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say it's leather but I'm pretty darn
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sure the outside is a synthetic now
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comes in a ton of colors so this is I
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guess they're blue probably they're
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light blue but it also comes in black
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and white and Rose red dark blue pink
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apple green this light blue and orange
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and gold that's a lot of choices and
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it's good now it also features this
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smart wake so it's off if I open it then
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it turns the iPad on and when I close it
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it turns it off again turns out that's
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done with the magnet but they got it and
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it works fine you can see the size is
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nice it's thin so it's adding very very
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little bulk to the actual iPad
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and it does have the ability to serve as
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a stand but I have to say that not super
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impressed with that particular feature
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because if you try to do it at any sort
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of angle it just does that so I think
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the intentions there but the way that
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they implemented it not so good maybe
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you can try it this way now it doesn't
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really work either so don't get this
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because you think it's going to give you
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14 different positions as a stand in my
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experience it doesn't actually work
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doing that try again and as you can see
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it just falls down so bit of a drag
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there but maybe not a big deal to you
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they do include this nice little screen
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cover that you can put on or not I'm
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actually not going to but it's a nice
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little added bonus but here's the thing
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to be truly honest it's not a great case
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because number one as you saw it doesn't
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work as a stand but number two they
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didn't quite get the cutouts right so
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you can see here the cutout for the
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audio jack isn't quite in the right
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place which could cause problems with
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you getting like headphones in properly
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and you know just as much you'll notice
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on the side that they have a really big
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cutout for a fairly small couple of keys
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here so my suspicion is that they built
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this based on dimensions supplied by
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Apple rather than having a physical
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product in house and where this is most
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noticeable is the huge cutout where the
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cameras not even in the center of it so
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I've tried it it doesn't actually get in
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the way of the camera but I just feel
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like they could have put a little more
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effort into getting the measurements
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right and it would be a better case but
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honestly the real showstopper for me is
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the fact that I can't use it as a stand
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other than like a 90-degree angle that
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will stay up but that's not what I'm
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looking for it is however very
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protective and it has a nice feel to it
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and obviously it comes in a ton of
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colors now before we talk about the
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price let me ask if you can go ahead and
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click on that subscribe button and if
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this is useful give me a thumbs up
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really appreciate that cool now this is
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the cell phone cover iPad Mini for cover
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and it runs you a 28 bucks but they have
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a temper
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discount that you can probably find on
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their website so that dropped it down a
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couple of dollars which is not bad
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because the Smart Cover by itself from
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Apple is more than this so this
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definitely gives you more protection and
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obviously if you're comparing it with
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the Apple Smart Cover that doesn't
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really help your iPad stand up either so
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from that perspective maybe it's a fair
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comparison anyway you can check it out
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at cell - phone cover com this is Dave
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Taylor and I'll catch you in my next
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video
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