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Apple Could be Working on a Smarter iPad Cover for Alerts, Patent Filing Suggests

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The current iPad cover is pretty handy and comes with some useful features, but it seems that it could become even more functional, if we are to believe some fresh information coming from a recent patent filing. According to the patent, the new iPad cover could notify the user of incoming emails, text messages, and other items. The patent filing is called "Integrated visual notification system in an accessory device" and it suggests that a cover or protector for iPad's screen would either display or allow information from the tablet to be displayed. Here are some details on this:

The goal of the current crop of tablet covers from Apple and other vendors is to protect your device's screen. But fiddling with Apple's Smart Cover and similar products to constantly open and close them can prove annoying. Apple's envisioned cover would still provide the necessary screen protection but also serve up alerts and notifications, reducing the need to constantly open and close it. And there is precedent here since certain smartphone cases on the market can already display visual information. In one scenario, the tablet cover would display visual notifications alerting you to incoming emails, text messages, and other information. Light emitting diodes or other illumination elements would be embedded into the flexible flap of the cover to display the information. You could also control the level of illumination through your tablet.

Right now, there are already smartphone makers who have built this type of devices, so this means that the technology is already available, and we're wondering whether Apple could deploy it in the upcoming covers for the new iPad line-up. Another much-awaited feature of the next-generation of iPad is said to be the fingerprint scanner, which would make the device much more safer for the users' data.

Source: AppleInsider
 

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