HTC EVO View tablet – Scribe Pen & Cover

The HTC EVO View is a really nice tablet device. I’m enjoying mine immensely. When you first get one it may or may not come with the Scribe pen.

Like me, it did, when I was at the Sprint store picking up the purchase they gave me one, naked, I mean, no box or anything, no instructions. They didn’t know what it could do. The thing that I found out after thinking it maybe could, and reading about it.

The non-writing end of the Scribe pen is capable of capacitive touch.

It gives the Scribe pen much more life and usability. Which then makes me scratch my head and ask, “Then why is there no place to put the pen with the device when you aren’t using it, but would like it close by?”

OK, what about Cases to put the device in. Can they be found? Not at the Sprint store. Not on their website either.

Best Buy sells a couple under their Rocket Fish brand. Do they work? Sure. Mostly. Are they nice, not really, not when you put the pedal to the floor. There is no pen holder on the leather one I looked at (and ended up purchasing, just to have something immediately!) and the other is a neoprene zip case sort of thing, so … it conceivably can hold a pen, does it have a spot for it, to keep it secure? I don’t know about that. What I do know is, that’s not the sort of thing I want in any case.

So with all that, what is it about the case I do have from BB, Rocket Fish Leather Folio for HTC Flyer (HTC Flyer has the same body as the HTC EVO View) … it’s simplistic. Doesn’t have a secure strap to close it. Light magnetic closing only. It’s like a folder, or a book. Open the flap, close the flap.

The flap has folds in it to allow it to be folded behind as a stand. I can make it stand up profile with it, no problem. Landscape though? Get real. It can’t do it safely. It’s unsafe for the screen. If you can manipulate it to stand in landscape mode, be wary of it suddenly tipping forward. It can and probably will.

Besides that, it’s still just a simplistic cover, nothing spectacular about it. It’s nice enough to look at closed, but, that’s not why I want one. I want one for it’s protection of the device, for it’s functionality in opening into a usable case for profile or landscape viewing. I’d like the Scribe pen sometimes, and it’s a problem keeping track of it. Where did I leave it? Is it on my desk, bed side table, counter, purse, can’t find it … oh there it is.

If I were going to keep the case I’d make a pen holder for it. But I’m not. I want something a bit more on the pizazz side of things. Leather, real leather. NOT pleather or any other synthetic. Yuck.

It has to have a pen holder that works.

It has to be able to convert into a profile/landscape stand for the device.

It has to be able to have the menu buttons available on the sides. Let’s see, it’s a big deal. This is something the BB case (I have already) has wrong. Speaking from the Profile view, Front camera on right is not covered, bottom area is nicely not covered, left though is too covered for when using landscape view, that becomes the bottom and the menu buttons flip to that area. (Really cool!) The BB case makes it a pain and a half and more to use that functionality of the tablet. It’s more than an annoyance. It’s the PRIMO reason I have for wanting another one.

I know what I’d like to try. Hope I can and hope I’ll like it and not regret it. IF I can get it. That’s a big question. I have 30+ days to return the BB one, and if I don’t have a replacement first, that’ll be problem for me.

Bottom line is the case I am looking at is totally different. the device sits in this thing, all edges not covered on the top, just the sides, leaving all camera and menu buttons fully accessible to the nth degree. Cut outs everywhere that this device needs them. A leather interior and exterior, hard shell between that. Flap that covers the front, folds behind to be a stand. Oh, yes, and a loop for the pen on the cover. Nice. It’s perfect, I think, Piel Frama.