You need to decide for yourself if it's worth the risk.
That's not what we're talking about it does affect the digitizer and or stylus
How does that work because it doesn't do that when I open or close it. Is there a setting I missed
i saw a few threads worried about permanent damage, my bad.
Ill stick with the offical book case for now, have been using it more than a month now and have not seen any damage to my digitizer, will just return it for warranty if something goes wrong
Which Moko 'slim' case are you using? They have several. I've been eyeing this one due to how thin it is
I purchased both. I like the cover that doesn't cover the bezel. The other one ripped after a couple of weeks, in exactly the same spot as someone else posted. I'm going to take a chance on the magnetic covers. If I can get two years out of this tablet I will be surprised. At the rate Android tablets have been improving over the last two years, is really hard not upgrading once per year. I still have my two year old Galaxy Tab 10.1, but it's barely usable now. I don't expect this tablet to fare better.
The first one. I do not like the 2nd one because it goes around the bezel. Like I said before, the magnets do not come in contact with the screen, not even close, and keep in mind that this is part of the actual design of the device. I use the stylus for writing every day and I have seen no ill effects. A good rule of thumb is to take these alarmist posts on the enternet with a grain of salt. I have a feeling that samsung engineers that designed these tablets do know what they are doing when it comes to magnetic interference.
The first I listed looks MUCH preferred due to thinness (not going around the bezel.) Agreed on that being the preferred choice due to general usability. Anything else and we're suddenly carrying around a small book and negating some of the portability of the device IMO.
I've found the oposite, with the custom ROM and kernel support from this site my TF101 is still going strong (released april 2011). I can run most modern games on it like Real Racing 3 etc. The only reason I'm getting a newer tablet is for drawing with and portability.
I didnt meen to be scare mongering when I started this thread. I had just seen posts about it on older note forums where people had the device for a while and was hoping people could ease my concerns. I'm still on the fence though. I imagine that the official case would have a magnet that is just strong enough to trigger the desired effect. I still worry that some 3rd party case will have much stronger magnets though and while I'm now convinced that no perminent damage could be caused, I dont have access to a degausing wand should part of the digitizer become magnetised through extended exposure.
I am actually happy that you started this thread, and I was not referring to you specifically regarding my "alarmist posts" comment. Your thread prompted me to look into this potential issue further, as well as to actually analyze my magnetic case to see if the magnets come in contact with the screen. I've seen a lot of very alarmist posts in forums for other devices such as the Note II regarding magnets, and I don't feel that many of them accurately represent the issue. From what I can tell so far, magnets do distort the action of the pen when in direct contact with the screen while you are writing. When you remove the magnetic field, everything should go back to normal. I am not sure if the permanent damage claims can actually be substantiated. And most importantly, Samsung designed this device to work with magnets. As long as your case utilizes magnets in a safe manner (as in the way Samsung intended it), you should see no ill effects.
Assuming the quality control on those cases is uniform and the magnets on your case are in the same position as mine, you're not going to see any issues. I think I'm going on 3 weeks now with that case, and a week earlier with another magnetic case. Using my tablet daily I have not seen any issues.
