Sold for the same price as the original iPad Smart Cover, Apple's new iPad mini Smart Cover ($39) is a considerably smaller, simpler version designed to be used with the upcoming 7.9" iPad mini tablet. Most notably different are the elimination of the multi-piece metal hinge found on the original iPad Smart Cover, replaced now with a bar of the same polyurethane plastic material used for the rest of the lid, and the reduction of what used to be four…
