What is going on, everybody?
I am Mike.
Welcome back to Tech 24/7 TV.
I'm so glad that you are back with me today because I have a
new accessory system from Friends of
the channel, Pitaka, who sent this over for me to check out.
This is the Pita!
Flow accessory system designed to integrate with your iPad,
pro your iPad Air, and allows you to integrate seamlessly
between the different modes that you use your iPad with,
whether it's in keyboard mode, tablet mode.
Maybe you have now even a desk mode with this new stand that
they have here.
Let's get started.
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This is the Pitaka Pita!
Flow accessory system for the iPad Pro, and Pitaka sent
this out to me free of charge.
Just because Pitaka sent it out to me does not change what you
will hear from me today.
And I will always be honest with you.
The paedophilic sensory system is comprised of
three different accessories.
First, it's the MagEZ Sleeve for the iPad.
Then there's the optional Foleo.
And addition to the MagEZ tablet holder,
which you see here.
The MagEZ Sleeve is available for the 2018, 2020, and the
2021 iPad Pro.
It's also available for the ten-point nine-inch iPad
Air 4.
So they're cutting a variety of different models covering
several different years.
The accessories system that is grounded in this case for
the iPad Pro is the Betacam Magsaysay sleeve.
This is a sleeve that protects the sides and the back of your
iPad and allows it to be used with the
magic keyboard accessory.
If this looks familiar to you, it should be because I did
review the MagEZ Sleeve for the 2020 iPad Pro.
I really like it a lot.
It does work as you would expect, recover the size
of the iPad, cover the back of the iPad.
It doesn't cover the bottom of the iPad here because when
inside the magic keyboard, this area needs to be exposed
to properly close correctly, which is why there is no
protection here on the bottom.
The case is made of Aramid fiber, so it does have a
nice texture to it.
It is a black and gray twill pattern.
Along the sides of the case here, there are the
cutouts for the microphone, for the speakers, and they're
all appropriately sized, and there's a specific one for
each model, which is why this one here is for the
twenty-one iPad Pro.
That's just a little bit thicker than
the 2020 version, where the USB port is on your iPad.
This is actually oversized, allowing you to stick almost
any size USB cable inside it properly, which is actually
the trouble I had with many different sleeves
from other companies.
There is a lip around the sleeve here, which will
allow you to use a screen protector.
And Pattakos says no thicker than point one
to millimeters thick.
I
f you look at the inside of the MagEZ sleeve, you're going to
see a large magnet in the center that will be used
whenever you want to connect to the tablet stand.
Now, let's say you have your iPad,
it's in the sleeve, and you want to connect to the
tablet.
Sandwell.
It connects the tablets, and it's a
pretty powerful magnet.
I mean, let's take a look here.
This is pretty ridiculous that I'm doing this here.
It's very strong, actually, quite stronger than I expected
it to be.
This is great because you get a sense of security; that will
not fall off this.
You know, you don't have this, you know, thousand dollars for
a tablet that's just going to slide off the stand,
which is great.
It does rotate, rotate all the way around,
it does tilt up and down,
I think it's 32 degrees up and five degrees down, giving you a
perfect viewing angle.
Now, if I'm looking at this, this is about 10 inches off
the ground here.
So I'm getting kind of just a good line of sight from my
perspective to this iPad.
I could use important over face time.
I use it in landscape mode if I want to watch a video
that way.
And what's cool, which will blow your mind here, there is a
15-watt wireless charger that can charge your iPhone,
charge your accessories, or your AiriPods.
Which is going to charge me a USB plug that's included
inside the box.
So this is very adaptable to many different things, but it
still gets better.
Let's say I want to take this off and.
Acidify Appel's Foleo case for I think it's 80 bucks;
they have another Foleo can using the magnets that are
included in here and there it is.
You know, if you want to go from the keyboard case to a
Foleo and not worry about, you know, scratching the front
of your iPad, you still have the Foleo.
This is going to have magnets in it as well.
You could use it like this.
You could have it down where you're watching content
like this; you can draw on it.
So it's a good way for an easel mode.
So it's very adaptable.
And that, to me, is where any accessory shines if it is
adaptable to many different contexts.
So any time I can get an accessory and use it in
many different, many different ways, you know,
other than I think just the way it was intended to, there's a
lot of compatibilities there, in my opinion, it is
a valuable accessory.
At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, do I find
value in one of these accessories in a group of
accessories to justify its purchase now?
So we're on the same page again; the MagEZ Sleeve
is sixty-nine ninety-nine ($69.99).
And then the stand by itself is eighty-three dollars ($83.00).
When you buy them both on Pitaka's website, it's going to
be one hundred and forty-four dollars ($144.00).
And the folio case is thirty dollars ($30.00).
Now for me MagEZ Sleeve.
I love it.
I owned one before.
As I said, I would purchase another one which I plan to.
This is a no-brainer purchase because it gives
you protection; it gives a fit and finish.
It protects the back of the iPad.
I like it, and I've always been a fan of sleeves.
You can use it when you are not in your magic keyboard, which I
find myself not always in the magic keyboard, and it
gives a good amount of utility.
I see the same for the tablet stand as well.
I can put this on my desk here.
I can use it on face-timing.
I use it for the video I use for Apple Fitness and any other
kind of a number of different combinations here,
including Sidecar.
I think that there's a lot of value in the stand
because one, the tilt like this, is the
nicest mechanism I've seen to rotate in a very long time.
It's almost as nice as the Kensington's studio, which was
really nice, but that only rotated one way.
This rotates all the way to 180.
It's very smooth.
You could use this if you wanted to work out.
We use this.
Plus, you use as a, you know, someone to take face time
to watch videos.
It's great, and I like it.
I think it's a very good value.
The stand itself, I think, is very conformable because you
can use it in many different ways.
It's straightforward to take it apart.
There are basically just two Heckscher to elkies
to Alan screws.
There are two screws here at the bottom.
It does come with the wrench itself and the wrenches,
magnetic sticks right here.
I don't have it in right now because I don't have it is very
easy to take with you; basically,
undo these two screws.
This comes apart, and the arm itself is separate
from the base.
Now, the Foleo, I'm not really a fan of it only comes
in black.
If I were to buy something, I'd want to be a little
bit more colorful.
I like the high degree of integration between the
three products, but I'm just not a fan of folios I don't use
in that very often.
So for me individually, I would say I'm going to pass on
the Folio, but the sleeve and the tablet stand there.
But I want to know from you, what do you think about this?
Are you thinking about getting any one of these accessories?
Let me know down in the comments below.
I am Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV.
Folks.
I will talk to you in the next one.