1. Contrary to the predecessor model, it is not leather but leatherette.
2. The smell is definitely going to stand in the first few days in the same room barely, after prolonged airing in the fresh air, it is bearable and after a few weeks only noticeable when you turn keeps the nose right. Here there is a great need for improvement, because that testifies not necessarily harmless chemical manufacturing processes.
3. set up the last slot in the lid to the iPad would have been able to save, because by rounding the back of the iPad this groove is not practically usable because it further slips immediately.
Who all do not mind, can confidently access, but there are almost identical (P2 Scosche Folio Case) partly cheaper alternatives in other or similar versions of Targus, bacon, Marware or Snugg. Some of them however are only available soon. Therefore, I keep this here.