Up next in 10
Vendors sent me iPhone 7 cases. Lots of iPhone 7 cases. Vendors like Speck, Otterbox, Gear4 and SkinIt. And with a huge pile of different iPhone cases that represent a number of different design styles - and finishes - which proved to be my favorite for my own iPhone 7 on a daily basis?
You'll have to watch Dave Taylor - of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ - explore over a dozen different cases to find out which is his top choice, but here's a clue: the best packaging doesn't always contain the best product!
Products reviewed are from Otterbox, Gear4, NuGuard, Lifeproof, Speck and SkinIt, all against the 2016 Apple iPhone 7.
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
tons of iphone 7 cases but which one's
0:02
the best stick around i'll tell ya hi
0:15
dave taylor here again and i have an
0:17
iphone 7 but you probably know that
0:18
because you're already watching all my
0:20
other videos right you did click that
0:22
subscribe button thank you appreciate
0:24
that now thing is that when you have a
0:26
smartphone you're always on the lookout
0:28
for the best possible case so i got all
0:31
these vendors to send me cases so let's
0:33
go through and look at some iphone 7
0:35
cases now in the interest of that's not
0:37
becoming a miniseries i'm not actually
0:40
going to put them all on the phone
0:41
because that's going to just take a lot
0:43
of extra time so we're going to start
0:44
with this this is the bendy trafalgar
0:49
from gear for and it's actually really
0:53
nice because it's sort of a two-tone
0:55
case and the back feels almost like a
0:58
fabric it's actually a very nice feel to
1:01
it and it has let's see what they say it
1:04
has a slim protective case with easy
1:06
access to all ports which is nice and it
1:09
has impact protection as pretty much all
1:13
the cases you're going to get are going
1:15
to have that and you know you can drop
1:17
it and things aren't going to go to
1:18
horribly I like gear for they make nice
1:21
cases and this particular one will set
1:24
you back thirty-seven dollars over here
1:27
now gear for also sent me some other
1:29
ones they also have this nice little
1:31
transparent one called the Piccadilly
1:33
and you know again it is somewhat
1:37
flexible it's a little more rigid than
1:39
the other one and it actually has some
1:41
rubber embedded into the edges of it for
1:44
additional shock protection I like this
1:47
sort of case if you're the kind of
1:48
person who wants to have a case but look
1:51
like your phone actually is sitting
1:53
there naked without any case on if
1:55
that's you then this could be a good
1:57
choice this is the piccadilly from gear
2:00
for and it also runs $37 let's see and
2:04
I'm going to run out of space on my
2:07
table here but we'll we'll sort of work
2:09
with it and the third one they said is
2:11
my favorite of the three this is the Ox
2:13
word and let me show you this one
2:15
because this one is actually you ready
2:19
for this this is a whole this stuff out
2:25
of it this is a case that opens up so
2:29
it's still the same basic idea and it's
2:31
a little flexible and stuff but the idea
2:33
of this is this is more of like a almost
2:35
like a all-in-one and there's some slots
2:38
here for credit cards on the cover and
2:40
you know this is the kind of thing where
2:43
a lot of people like to do this because
2:45
it covers the front of their phone and
2:47
gives you some privacy so if you have
2:49
your phone sitting on the table and you
2:51
get a text message from someone that
2:52
maybe you don't want your children to
2:54
see well now you have to actually
2:56
physically do something to see what's
2:58
going on so that could be really nice
3:00
and again you know gear for this is
3:02
going to be shocked and impact resistant
3:05
and let's see it has a viewing stand so
3:08
you have the ability to monkey around
3:11
with the back of it and tilt it if you
3:13
want for certain angles so you can watch
3:15
a movie or something and this one's a
3:17
little bit more spendy this one runs 43
3:20
dollars from gear for so that's their
3:23
line up next is spec and again specs
3:28
been doing this stuff forever and they
3:30
have great cases so this is we're going
3:32
to start with the presidio this is what
3:34
they call their clear plus print and
3:37
while this pattern might not be exactly
3:40
what I would choose for an iphone case
3:43
it is interesting that this was the very
3:45
first iphone 7 case i got so i did
3:47
actually use this for a while though in
3:50
the scale of masculine to feminine it's
3:53
possible this is not the most masculine
3:55
of designs not going to go further down
3:57
that road your case is your choice it's
4:00
all good we don't make any judgments
4:02
here but this is there clear the clear
4:07
and it's a little bendy it's a clear
4:10
plus pattern and they have different
4:11
patterns and different designs and stuff
4:13
but again this is nice because it's a
4:16
fairly modest case so it doesn't like
4:19
jump out and say hey I'm your case it's
4:21
just lets you sort of look mostly at the
4:23
phone now having said that you can see
4:26
if I do
4:27
lip the phone in that you know it very
4:31
much changes the look and the case gets
4:32
you know much more interesting and the
4:34
pattern really jumps out versus just
4:37
looking at it clear and there's a bit of
4:39
an art to putting these cases on and
4:43
then getting them off again which is of
4:45
course beneficial if you want to try
4:47
multiple pieces come on you can do it
4:49
come on spec let go of my phone I think
4:54
we're there okay survived so this is the
5:00
spec presidio clear plus print and this
5:03
one's a little bit spensive to this 4499
5:07
but spec has some other ones too and
5:10
let's go with this one this is actually
5:12
I think my favorite of their line this
5:15
is the presidio inked and this is like
5:17
going from the feminine flowers to the
5:20
super masculine photo of the moon's
5:23
surface and this one as you can see it's
5:27
sort of the same basic idea but now it's
5:30
all opaque and same bending material and
5:34
it's rubber so it's strong and I really
5:37
like when you have a pattern that it
5:39
wraps around the corners and one of the
5:41
things i should mention is that i think
5:44
it's critically important on all
5:46
smartphone cases that the edge of the
5:50
case be slightly higher than the surface
5:53
of the phone i know you can't really see
5:54
that very clearly but that's really
5:56
important in every one of these cases
5:58
has that characteristic why is that
6:00
important because if i drop my phone
6:02
this way i don't want the glass surface
6:05
to be absorbing the impact so this one
6:08
again this is the presidio inked and
6:11
this particular design is I think they
6:14
call it a lunar surface or something
6:17
like that and it again runs 4495 let's
6:20
see if i can get this one off a little
6:22
more smoothly and there we go good and
6:26
then the third one from spec is really
6:29
probably more of their classic design
6:31
and if you just like these great impact
6:33
resistant cases this one's got you
6:36
covered this is just a straight presidio
6:38
and it's a two tone and you
6:40
pick from a lot of different
6:42
combinations of colors and this is sort
6:45
of a what are we going to call this
6:46
burgundy and pink let's call it those
6:49
two colors and you can see the insides
6:52
one color the outsides another and the
6:54
idea of this sort of design is that the
6:56
inside material is a little more rubbery
6:58
and the outsides a little more hard and
7:00
works out well and what's interesting
7:02
with this is in the corners they
7:04
actually have extended the rubber out to
7:07
take the impact on that energy if it
7:10
does drop so another very nice one and
7:13
notice this one actually is slightly
7:16
less expensive than the other two I
7:17
guess because they didn't have to put a
7:18
pattern on it so this one's only 3995
7:22
that's spec cupboard now newgard KX this
7:27
is an interesting one because this one
7:29
here we go here's how I pull it out so
7:32
this one is really supposed to be a
7:35
heavy-duty drop case and it is actually
7:38
pretty tough this is a thicker stronger
7:40
case than the other ones I've looked at
7:42
in this particular instance it's sort of
7:44
a blue and black but you can't see very
7:47
easily there's there's sort of a pattern
7:49
on the blue I don't know maybe you can
7:51
see that in the light reflections a sort
7:53
of wave pattern that makes it not just
7:56
sort of this dull solid color and this
7:59
is a nice case if you work in more
8:02
challenging environments or you have
8:04
kids that have butter fingers or
8:06
something and you're just your phone
8:08
keeps falling because this is going to
8:09
keep it pretty darn well protected and
8:12
let's see new guard says that it is
8:15
impact gel so it has advanced ex or bing
8:19
gel that protects without bulk I don't
8:22
know that there's gel in here but I
8:24
believe okay there's gel inside it it
8:27
has a lifetime warranty if this breaks
8:30
they'll send you a new one it's not
8:31
unfortunately a lifetime warranty on
8:33
your phone which would be super more
8:34
cool but I guess that would be a little
8:36
bit of an issue with their ability to
8:38
afford it so this one is potentially the
8:41
most expensive the ones we've looked at
8:43
so far at least it's 4995 still it's a
8:47
very nice case and it's certainly a nice
8:50
manly tough case for people that live in
8:53
bored
8:54
have their phones and more challenging
8:56
environments now next company i'm going
8:59
to look at is from OtterBox and otterbox
9:01
has a great reputation for making great
9:04
strong iphone cases and the thing is
9:06
otterbox i remember when they first came
9:08
out and then he's like big honkin cases
9:10
that it was like here's my phone here's
9:13
the case and they've gone so far with
9:15
materials and design they have these
9:17
beautiful slim cases and i really like
9:19
them so this for example is there
9:22
commuter and it looks kind of similar to
9:27
the last couple we've looked at it's
9:28
tougher thicker it's definitely more
9:31
rigid the outside plastic part
9:33
interestingly you can break it into two
9:35
this part is actually quite rigid and
9:39
this is you know going to be nice and
9:40
tough whereas this is very flexible I
9:44
mean you know you can do this sort of
9:45
thing hopefully your phone's not in when
9:47
you're doing that and this absorbs all
9:49
sorts of impact one of the things to
9:51
notice why we have it taken apart is
9:53
that it actually has the ability to
9:55
cover up your open ports which is very
9:58
much a the kind of thing that otterbox
10:02
likes to do and make sure your phone
10:04
stays maximally happy it's easy enough
10:07
to put it back together and it's also
10:10
easy enough to put your phone in it I'm
10:12
not going to do that because I know from
10:13
experience that it's not so easy to get
10:15
your phone out of one of these but then
10:17
again that's probably a good thing
10:19
because that means that it's actually
10:20
really like holding on to your phone and
10:23
making sure that it stays safe but even
10:26
if I just put it up on the very top you
10:28
can see maybe that the rubberized
10:31
surface extends beyond the glass so this
10:35
is a really nice strong case and I
10:37
really like it it's also only thirty
10:39
nine dollars and it comes in lots of
10:41
color pairs you could imagine with this
10:43
design that that's pretty
10:45
straightforward for them but if you
10:47
think that that's still all otterbox
10:49
makes let me show you this other one
10:50
this is the OtterBox symmetry hold on
10:53
let me actually pull it out of the box
10:55
and this is really kind of a new sort of
11:00
design look for otterbox where this is a
11:02
sleek case with a bold graphic design
11:06
and
11:06
yet it's still sort of that same
11:10
two-part design now this one doesn't
11:12
actually come apart as you're watching
11:13
me struggle to try to take it apart
11:15
sorry I didn't mean to break it the
11:18
inner part is same that same rubberized
11:21
sort of texture and the outer part is a
11:23
hard shell and I like these a lot
11:26
actually this is one of my favorite
11:28
cases this is the OtterBox symmetry and
11:31
this also runs just $39 you should
11:34
definitely check out their site they've
11:35
got a ton of different graphical designs
11:37
and that leads us to to two more cases
11:42
I'm going to save my favorite till the
11:44
very end you're seeing it right here but
11:46
we'll get there and this one is the life
11:49
poop life proof free now here's what you
11:54
might not realize lifeproof and otterbox
11:57
are the same company so this one is
12:00
really sort of like the classic otterbox
12:04
design this is this is what the company
12:06
used to be known for and so now this is
12:08
what lifeproof is doing and these are
12:11
pretty heavy duty cases so this actually
12:14
has a front to it and the idea of it is
12:17
that when you put it all together the
12:19
right way it's waterproof and your phone
12:23
then can be dropped in the lake and then
12:25
someone can go diving and find it and
12:27
recover it now of course the iphone 7 is
12:30
the first Apple phone that actually has
12:32
some level of water resistance but water
12:35
resistance and waterproof are not the
12:37
same thing so if this is something that
12:39
gets splashed on you're probably fine
12:41
you drop this in your pool you might
12:44
have an issue but if you drop it in the
12:46
pool with this case on then you don't
12:49
have an issue so as you might expect
12:51
it's a little more complicated you can
12:53
see there's more parts to it there's
12:55
actually an install guide this is stet
12:59
you know stepping it up to the next
13:00
level and no surprise it's also a more
13:03
expensive case so this lifeproof fre for
13:07
the iphone 7 is eighty-nine dollars but
13:10
really i don't feel like it's the same
13:12
kind of cases things like this spec
13:15
because the purpose of this is to give
13:18
you some protection
13:19
drops and maybe to give you some you
13:21
know more visual pizzazz and something
13:23
more personalized whereas this is really
13:25
you know for if you're working in a
13:28
construction site if you really need to
13:30
keep your phone pristine in tough
13:33
environments where there's dust and dirt
13:35
and mud and maybe it drops in a bucket
13:37
of water whatever all of that sort of
13:40
stuff that's what lifeproof really
13:41
covers and they're not going to win any
13:44
great awards for being beautiful but
13:47
honestly most people that are looking
13:49
for this sort of a phone case aren't
13:51
looking for beautiful they're looking
13:53
for tough and strong and this baby is
13:55
tough and strong so that is the
13:59
lifeproof fre fre which brings us to the
14:04
very last case and this is the favorite
14:07
case of mine this is the skin it case
14:10
and it's funny because it actually comes
14:12
in the least assuming packaging it's
14:14
just a little ziplock bag but this is
14:17
the skin it they don't really have a
14:20
name for it it's just the the skin it
14:23
iphone 7 case and it has everything that
14:26
i really like in a case and it's slim
14:29
and that comes in tons of awesome
14:31
designs so it's a two-part so the inner
14:34
part is a rubberized material and it is
14:37
connected I mean it's like stuck
14:39
together to the outer hard shell and
14:42
it's sleek it has covers for volume
14:46
buttons so that's nice and as you can
14:48
see it has some really cool need to
14:51
actually move my hand by the way some
14:53
really cool designs and there's just so
14:55
much about this case I like because it
14:57
covers everything I want in terms of
15:00
keeping my phone safe and it's small
15:03
it's not intrusive and it's a really
15:06
cool design and I mean I've been using
15:09
this particular case for about I don't
15:11
know 23 weeks and I get lots of
15:13
compliments and people be like wow what
15:16
kind of case is that where'd you get
15:17
that from and you can see you know even
15:19
as I go around the side and you can see
15:21
the buttons the case design goes really
15:24
all the way around and skin it has just
15:27
like an insane number of different
15:30
designs hundreds and hundreds of them
15:31
that
15:31
you can keep you busy for hours going
15:34
through the mall and then asking your
15:36
friends well which one do you think so
15:38
this is the skin at iphone 7 case it
15:42
runs 34 99 and actually now I'm sorry
15:45
this is the iphone 7 pro so they have
15:48
multiple ways you can take one of the
15:50
designs and make a case out of it and
15:51
the pro is the one that has the inner
15:54
rubberized material and I just think
15:56
it's a win so this is dave taylor i've
16:00
looked at a ton of iphone 7 cases for
16:02
you pretty overwhelming actually and of
16:06
all of these my two favorites let's go
16:09
with two favorites my two favorites are
16:11
the lifeproof if you're looking for
16:13
something super tough that's going to
16:15
keep your phone happy even if you're
16:17
tossing it out of your truck while
16:19
you're driving though I don't recommend
16:21
you toss your iPhone out of your truck
16:23
while you're driving and the other one
16:24
is the will hold it will hold on before
16:27
we finish this up can you click on the
16:30
subscribe link would you be ok just
16:31
subscribing to my youtube channel
16:33
because it would give you access to lots
16:35
and lots of my videos and it would help
16:37
me because having lots of subscribers
16:40
makes me more motivated to make these
16:42
great videos you clicked you did you
16:45
sure cool thank you very much so finally
16:48
my number one choice of all these iphone
16:51
cases my number one choice is the skin
16:53
it iphone 7 pro which comes in a plastic
16:58
bag but who cares because the phone case
17:01
itself totally rocks and comes in tons
17:04
of great designs and this is the case
17:06
that i actually have been using the
17:08
iphone 6 pro case with my iphone 6 for
17:12
at least a year and honestly that one
17:14
doesn't even look like it's been used
17:15
and this one is still looking like i
17:17
pulled it out of the bag today which
17:19
actually you saw me do but i've been
17:22
using this for a couple of weeks and
17:23
it's in perfect condition this is a
17:24
great case so this is dave taylor and i
17:29
hope this has been super informative for
17:30
you and i'll catch you in my next video
17:33
Oh