[Nexus 7 (2013) Accessories] [TSON]:
I've bought 4 or 5 cases for my Nexus 7, so I'm gonna be reviewing them all here, and giving them a rating so you can know what you're paying for!

Moko Slim Folding Cover Case

Rating: 9/10​

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Coming soon... But honestly, THIS is what I'm talking about.

rooCASE Dual-View Folio Case Cover

Rating: 1/10​

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This is an interesting take on the Folio we know and love. On the inside is a faux-leather case for placing your tablet inside, with a cloth backing, and on the outside is a harder case with an almost-carpet-feeling material. The two pieces can be completely separated, and reattaching is as simple as lining up the cloth with the velcro strip on the right side of the outer piece. This folio cover doubles as both a portrait and a landscape stand. One good thing I can say about this cloth material, is that when the cover is folded completely around, the sliding is minimal. But that doesn't matter, since you can't hold it. But we'll get to that later.

My first impression? Well, when I thought the SUPCASE was as bad as it gets, and I was wrong. Really, really, really wrong. In fact, I felt bad and raised its score after trying this case.

Right off the bat, this thing reeks. It smells like really intense new car - which is weird, considering the faux-leather material is the same as my SUPCASE. I'm actually a little nauseated as I'm writing this and it's a foot away from me, maybe two.

The material is very thick, both on the outside and on the inside of the case. The means that the folio aspect of the case is compromised, much WORSE than the SUPCASE, where the case actually becomes THREE times as thick as your naked tablet with the cover folded back. This time, we're looking at almost five times the thickness, which is downright unacceptable. I love the slimness of my Nexus 7, so this was extremely disappointing. During my test run, I found myself just taking the tablet out completely multiple times after getting frustrated with trying to hold it. This is thicker than an XBOX 360 controller. What in the actual hell were they thinking? Safety? Yeah, I probably won't be breaking my Nexus 7 by dropping it if it's so thick I don't want to use it at all. Oh, also, the buttons lay so deep into the material that they're extra hard to press, as if we weren't all having enough trouble with that already. And the velcro that holds your tablet into the case is significantly weaker than the velcro that holds the case to the cover. *deep inhale*

Anyway, enough rambling about build quality. Let's go into detail with the dual view/stand aspect of this tablet - it's pretty simple. Attach the case to the velcro strip of the cover. If you're going for the landscape, the camera hole WILL give you trouble on the outside cover - and a lot of it. Even after realigning it about three times, I can still see the outside cover in my photos. It's extremely extremely strict, and quite frankly drives me nuts. Portrait stand-mode will give you no such problems - but you're not gonna be carrying around your tablet like that.

When standing the tablet up in portrait, the folio cover's first groove won't hold your tablet up well, you'll have to use the second or third. It looks like it wouldn't be sturdy at all, but it does a pretty good job once you align it up correctly. There's no guidelines for this here, so you'll have to find out via the ol' trial and error (ugh).

Landscape mode, camera hole aside, works fantastically. It's actually one of the sturdiest holds in the market as long as you're not attacking the top of the screen. It looks pretty darn fancy as well, haha.

But unfortunately, with the downright ridiculous thickness of this case, strict camera holes, cheap-carpet-esque material, and intrusive faux-leather material on the front of the tablet, I can't say I can recommend this case unless you are never going to be actually touching your Nexus 7, or you don't mind inconveniently ripping it out of the case every time you leave home. I mean, look at this!

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The rooCASE Dual-View Folio Case Cover is

NOT

recommended. It's bad! REALLY bad!

SUPCASE Slim Fit Folio Leather Case w/ Stylus

Rating: 3/10​

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I got my Supcase Slim Fit Folio Leather Case today and it's honestly the clunkiest thing I've ever used. I actually hate it. That might sound harsh, but I honestly do.

First of all, the material is awful. I mean, I only spent like 10 dollars on the thing, so I wasn't expecting any miracles, but this is thick, awkwardly/ugly textured, it obscures so much of the nice slate design of the Nexus with its obtrusive material that I am a little offended. It doesn't even feel nice to touch, which is the worst part. It's like rubbing your fingers on a cheap faux alligator skin purse. Yuck. Adding insult to injury - opening the case for the first time, you're greeted with a note telling you that since the material is so thick, you'll have to take the Nexus 7 out of the case to charge it using Qi. Fantastic.

Throwing the Nexus 7 in is a little odd, but the fit is very tight. You pull a velcro strip out, slide the N7 in, then fold the velcro around the side and tuck it underneath. It's very secure, but it's also very secure: taking the N7 in and out is the bane of my existence.

Not only that - it's designed poorly. Honestly, how am I supposed to hold this thing when I don't want it sitting on a flat surface? It's a fold-over case with a magnetic cover (which I appreciate, but we'll get to that later), but unlike any other Folio cover I've tried... there's only a magnet on the front of the cover. If I fold it all of the way back, not only does it double the thickness of the Nexus to an uncomfortable size (slim fit my ass), but it also doesn't stay there. It slides around all sorts of ways when I hold it with my left hand and use my right hand to be productive on my N7. Wtf? They added a little elastic strap which I'm assuming is there for you to stick your left hand in to hold your N7 - which I've tried, and using it makes it even more awkward. Since I'm not holding the actual cover to the back of the part that holds the tablet, the front part of the case flops around in my hands and makes using it annoying. And since I'm willing to work with these guys, I tried not folding the cover back - and again... how am I supposed to hold this thing? It's impossible unless you lay the tablet flat on your left palm and and touch the screen with your right hand. Who uses their tablet like that? Nobody. This is a design disaster.

And you know, of course the stylus pen holder is to the right of the screen, making the placement of your right hand there extremely uncomfortable - daresay more uncomfortable than your left hand which doesn't know what it's doing but at least isn't being stabbed by the hook of the stylus. Sometimes I'm gonna want to touch the screen and not be holding the stylus in my hand. I'm tempted to rip the whole thing off and throw the stylus away.

The stand isn't terrible, but it's kind of a mess. What you need to do, is to fold the folio cover back and around, then make a triangle out of it (you'll feel where the bend is when you're taking the cover off). You then tuck the top of that triangle into a weird handle-resembling thing in the back of the part that houses the tablet. You can't even do this with one hand, you have to reach into the stiff faux-alligator-skin handle, pull it up, and shove the cover in there. It kind of makes you wonder if we were intended to even use this.

Regardless - the fit is decent and the handle is powerful... Much more powerful than the cover itself, which curves enough at the bottom of this triangle that the tablet will tip over when you try to pull down the status bar in landscape. Speaking of trying to pull the task bar down in landscape... you can't really do that. The leather material is covering all of the 'side' (top in landscape) bezel and is so thick that you're going to have a great time trying to get your fingers into the little crevice where the status bar is. Insult to an already bad case. The fact that there is no portrait option is pretty bad, too.

There are a couple of things that I can praise about this case, though. Namely, security and the magnet. The magnet is sturdy and holds the case closed very well. It's hard for me to accidentally knock it off, which is great, and I've seen many cases fail here. And the security is pretty awesome too. This stiff faux-leather case is thick enough and sticks out far enough from my N7's brittle edges and screen that I'm sure dropping it would do absolutely nothing to it.

And yeah. That's about it!

The SUPCASE Slim Fit Folio Leather Case is

NOT

recommended. It's bad! REALLY bad!

More reviews will come as I get the rest of my cases :)