Review: Thick, bulky, and won't stay closed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2014
The case appears to be well-made and it was an interesting decision to have a revolving case. You get two benefits from that: the first is that it allows you to use the stand either in portrait or landscape mode and the second is that it allows you to keep the HDMI and USB port on the inside of the case until you need to use them.The tablet snaps into the case pretty well and I felt that it was secure. Where I had a problem was when I closed the case. The case cover will not lay flat on the tablet but pops back up again. If you want it to remain closed, you must use the provided elastic strap. Part of the problem is that for home use I don't really want to use the elastic strap (since it's thin and looks fairly cheap and likely to stretch over time) so I pop the case closed and then go. What happens, though, is that the case closes just enough to activate the auto-off, then bounces up just enough to activate the auto-on.Adding to this, I found that the hand strap left a visible impression on the screen protector I had added to my tablet and that it really wasn't much use for holding the tablet while reading.I also found that while the revolving tablet was an interesting idea, I just don't use it. I never prop up my tablet in portrait mode and it's not really a problem to have the charging port always ready for the tablet to be charged, so the very reason to purchase the tablet was a non-starter for me. I switched to the Amazon tablet case, which is thinner, lighter, and stays closed, and I've been happy with that.