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What is the iPad 2 Smart Cover?
March 4, 2011 | 
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With the launch of the iPad 2 Apple are also introducing what they call the Smart Cover. The slim yet sturdy Smart Cover protects the iPad screen without covering up its durable aluminum back.
The Smart Cover itself is a rectangle exactly the size and shape of the iPad’s screen, folded in 4 parts. The side that is against the screen is made of a soft microfiber cloth that will help clean the screen. The outside is either leather or polyurethane. On one side is a metal hinge with small magnetic parts at both ends; these magnets attach to magnets build into the iPad 2 when you drag the Smart Cover near the iPad 2’s edge.
When you close the cover over the iPad’s screen, it snaps closed and stays closed. The iPad 2 senses that the Smart Cover has been closed, and immediately locks itself. When you peel the Smart Cover back the iPad 2 automatically wakes back up.
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Apple Announce the iPad 2
A year ago, nobody had an iPad. Then Apple sold 15 million of them in just nine months, creating a whole new category of technology product. The original iPad wasn’t a game changer, it was a game creator.
Whilst other manufacturers have tried to jump on the bandwagon, Apple has now gone and moved the goalposts again. The iPad 2 is twice as fast, has 9x faster graphics than before, and includes front and rear. All this in a slimmer, lighter, sexier chassis that’s thinner than an iPhone 4. The new iPad 2 it arrives in the US on March 11 and 23rd March the rest of us.
What’s New
At the heart of the new iPad 2 is an Apple-Designed dual-core A5 processor and the improved graphics performance. The processor is twice as fast as the original iPad and the graphics are 9x faster. The display remains the same 9.7 inch size and the same resolution of 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi). Memory capacities remain the same with either 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of storage.