Meet Arnold.
Arnold is a well-known Australian tech blogger whom I first met through Nuffnang a couple of years ago. His blog won the Best Geek Blog at the Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards in Singapore 2 years ago.
Since I met him in Singapore 2 years ago we’ve kept in touch and became friends over the years. Every time I drop my Melbourne and he’s around he takes us out for a good meal and we catch up. When I was in Melbourne last month for the Nuffnang Blogopolis, we met again. He told me how he now has his own business that sells a luxurious and professional kind of iPad covers that were made of leather. Kangaroo leather to be specific.
I thought about it and I thought yeah… I think that would work. Why? Because I’ve seen so many iPad covers and they’re typically really casual looking. Even the official Apple Smartcover comes in all sorts of colours that gives you a really casual kind of feel. But what if sometimes you don’t want to look casual? You’re wearing a suit and the last thing you want to be carrying with you is an orange smart cover. You want something that matches what you have right?
So then I went online to look at pictures of his Aranez iPad cover and it was absolutely beautiful.
Then just this week, he sent me one in the mail….. and I love it!
The first thing that catches your eye when you get it out of the box is this little bottle and a cloth to wipe something with. At first I thought it was meant for the iPad. Then when I looked at the cover again I realized that it was a leather cleaner. It’s like we normally buy iPad covers to protect our iPads right? This one comes with tools and with the expectation that you should be taking good care of the cover as well you take care of the iPad itself.
It really does give you that feeling. When I first took it out of the box, I could smell the leather. Somehow that instantly made me want to be more careful with it when slotting in my iPad and my business cards.
The other thing I love about it is how there are slots for you to put in business cards or any sort of cards on my iPad. That is something I really wonder why few if any of the other iPad covers have. Why won’t they? It’s like when you carry a file into a meeting, you get to put things in it. Why can’t you be able to slot a few things into your iPad cases. I’m not asking to put a baseball in it… just a few pieces of paper or some business cards.
Overall I really like it! The only little drawback about it is that it doesn’t have an in-built mechanism on the cover to prop up your vertically iPad but it’s easily solved by having it lean on something. Most of the time I find myself having my iPad on the table but slanting upwards a bit for me to type on… and this cover handles that fine.
Totally love my new Aranez case.
Thanks Arnold and good luck with Aranez. If you want to get yourself one, visit his site here.
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space