TasteOfGyan's video: New Trent - Gladius Air NT611GR - iPad Air Heavy Duty Case : Unboxing and Detailed Review

First Impression : The case gives good feel and confidence wrt rough and tough usage scenarios. Good Design is slowly becoming brand image for New Trent, and this case indeed looks very promising but from operational aspects there are certainly few improvements which are mandated (see the sections below). Having said that, being first generation cases for iPad Air in heavy duty segment, am sure these would organically happen.  Pros: 1. Design is quite robust to get confidence that case would protect against worst scenarios 2. 360 rotation of base stand is very useful feature ( it at all it can be made easy, look at above sections for more details) 3. Cut-outs are perfectly designed, very well spaced and no obstruction to any operations. 4. Leather strap certainly gives a more royal touch and contrast to plastic/rubber case feel. 5. Operations with case on are seamless except the PullUP Menu as already called in Cons. 6. Buttons are designed well, even after rubber case on, they give feel of real buttons. Areas of Improvement: 1. Rotation of stand, opening, closing is very very hard. Even as adult, it was extremely annoying and painful operation. This being one of the critical features with case, certainly requires fix. 2. There is no proper grip to change orientation of stand, using leather strap is not convenient. 3. PullUp and PullDown Menus of iPad Air are very tricky to operate, specifically in portrait mode. 4. Putting the case face down, implicitly press Home Button, wakes iPad up and make it go in Siri mode.  5. Front Screen is not a very good quality, with case being so good quality overall, screen is the only odd in terms of quality but is not bad either. Visit TasteOfGyan.com for other videos.