Will Apple put a kick-stand on iPad 2?

Staska  By on 03 Feb 11

One of the small things Apple’s iPad and other tablets are missing for now – is a kick-stand. But the lack of it can sometimes make overall tablet use experience a bit annoying.

E.g., when I sit down at a table for my morning coffee, browsing through stuff with an iPad lying in horizontal position. It’s a tad uncomfortable. I usually tend to put a couple of books or some other stuff under it, to get my tablet  upright a bit.

I know that a kick-stand may interfere with pristine iPad design. Still, Apple has enough design skills to make it look right. And they may eventually do it, if Apple’s patent application called “Multiple position stand” ever becomes a reality.

The patent application describes an interesting kick-stand, that can hold iPad sized device in upright position at multiple angles and both in portrait,  and landscape  orientation. It takes some clever engineering, but we know Apple is really good at that.

Now if Apple just decided that sometimes function should win over design, and put their minds to it… I would really love to see this kick-stand on an iPad 2.

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