Following my little "incident" (
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1370650/ ) I'm going to get one of the 2 cases above, so I wondered if anyone had any opinions/experience with either?
I had a Defender for my iPad 1 and was really happy with it, but I'm curious about the Survivor now.
Cheers.
Seen both in person. There's a bit of creaking in the Survivor shell when held by one side or with the iPad pressing down on an edge, but the rubber is thicker than the new Defender, and in the corners and grip areas, they add even more rubber. This comes at the cost of portability, and no hard screen protection.
The new Defender is much thinner than the iPad 1 version - its about 4-5mm thinner. The frame fits nicely around the iPad, so it sits well in the hand without being as bulky as the Survivor, and it's a dense and less porous rubber that doesn't pick up much lint. With the hard protector in place. It feels very sturdy... but I don't know which is more drop-proof, as the plastic shell of the Survivor might fly apart on impact, but it has more rubber in the crash-zones which might offset that. the Defender's stuff rubber may be more helpful than the Survivor's, but there's less of it on the corners and edges as compared to the Survivor.
For portability, the Defender wins. For extra port/opening protection, the Survivor is it.