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Whether you have an Android phone, a Google Pixel, an LG or an Apple iPhone, the hunt for great smartphone cases is never-ending. At least, until you find SkinIt. With a wide range of cases and skins for lots of devices, you're sure to find a case you love.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ examines three different Skinit cases: Pro, Waterproof and Wallet, and finds that they're all smartly designed and attractive. More importantly, each can protect your precious iPhone or smartphone in various situations.
Learn more at http://www.Skinit.com/
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hunting for a cool smartphone case let
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me show you some interesting options
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Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about smart phone well more specifically
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smart phone cases because as much as
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companies put the effort into designing
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and engineering these to be tough and
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durable they take a beating they get
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knocked onto floors they get dropped
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people drop things on them these are
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always with us so they take a lot of
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abuse now this is the Apple iPhone 7 and
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it's a beautiful piece of engineering
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with Gorilla Glass and everything but
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still this is hundreds and hundreds of
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dollars this is a substantial investment
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so I want to protect that investment so
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I've always had all my smart phones in
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cases just because it's like a little
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inexpensive insurance policy so I asked
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my friends at Skinit to give me a
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sampling of the different cases they
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have because they do a great job and
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I've used Skinit cases forever and so
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the first one I want to show you is what
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they call the pro case and you can see
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it's a very nice design but what you
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might not be able to see is that it's
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actually two parts so the inner part is
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rubber and this is smart because your
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phone fits into this and then it has
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shock protection because of course the
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rubber absorbs any shock if something
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hits and then you have the hard part
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which goes over it and that not only
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gives you the other way it not only
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gives you yet more protection but let's
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be honest it looks really cool it's a
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hard case and it becomes something where
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it just not only has a really nice
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design and I'll get back to the number
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of design skin it has because it will
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blow your mind but it also does
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something super important which is that
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the bevel is just slightly higher than
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the screen now why is that important
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because if I do that the phone itself
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gets no impact because it's the edge of
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the case that absorbs all that energy I
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have been shocked at how many phone
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cases I've seen for review where they're
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bezel or
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is just barely the exactly the same
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height as the screen or even slightly
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below it which is just dumb I mean Khan
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guys another millimeter maybe not even
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that half a millimeter and you would
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have the bevel be just slightly higher
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than the phone and that makes a huge
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difference
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bezel not bevel bezel okay you now know
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that - it's the bezel what we're talking
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about and so I really like these cases I
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will say I've had a skin at pro case on
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my phone for years even for previous
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generations of iPhones I love the design
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the visuals that comes with a million
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different options and it's just a nice
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elegant simple little case that works
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great it is $34.99 and let's keep
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looking at cases because I want to show
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you there's sort of two other major
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designs for cases so the other options
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okay cut that one out the other options
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are a waterproof case and it's kind of
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funny they're waterproof case is pretty
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cool you see this a screen on the front
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so everything's going to be covered when
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the phone's in the case but it's really
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hard to figure out how to open their
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case and all the instructions are in the
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case so it ends up a bit of a dilemma
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because the instructions that tell you
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how to open and close the case are in
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the case so they might want to think
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about their packaging slightly there or
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maybe I'm just the one who couldn't
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figure it out but these are pretty easy
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to work with - you just match line
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things up make sure it clicks in put the
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back on it and then you just have to go
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all the way around and push it and then
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you have a nice waterproof seal now what
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I really like about this is it's still
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pretty thin and obviously if you want
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even have an issue with the front bezel
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because the whole thing is covered so
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now we got a very protective system and
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you can see and I can still see my phone
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in there and it still works and the
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design is a little different it's not
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quite as as elegant it's not quite as
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beautiful as this where the wraparound
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because it has to deal with all the
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pieces of the waterproof but nonetheless
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they've done a nice job and so they have
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like a sticker or skin
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the back and this one I'll give you a
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close-up this is sort of this steampunk
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B and then that element reoccurs on the
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very top on the front it's subtle but
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it's nice and what else I like about
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this is that it comes with a little
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carrying strap so if you're using your
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phone in an environment where you might
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be exposed to a lot of dust or dirt or
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water or who knows what something like
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this is a really smart way to keep it
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pristine and not disgusting and more
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importantly the most modern smartphones
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are waterproof but yours might not be
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and even if it is waterproof like this
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iPhone 7 I'm not sure I still want it
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dropping into the pool to see what
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happens that would just be a real drag
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so this is the waterproof skin atcase
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and it's waterproof rated up to six feet
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deep so shallow ends not deep end but
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again if you falls in the pool and you
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dive in and grab it you're probably okay
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if you're fairly speedy about it and
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this one's a little more expensive at
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$39.99 but you're getting a lot more
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case and a lot more engineering there
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and then the third one is the one that I
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think is kind of in a lot of ways the
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coolest I see a lot of people have these
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and this looks just like the earlier
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case we had except it's a wallet case so
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I will slip my phone in hopefully okay
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so my phone's in its slim we still have
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that slight bezel so it's slightly
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higher than the screen so it's going to
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protect me here
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it's very nice looking there's more
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rubber going on here but what's cool of
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course is that there's a little door and
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you open it and you can have a couple of
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credit cards in here you could have
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maybe your driver's license and a 20 you
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know there's a couple of different
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things you can put in here that make
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this really a nice functional phone and
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that way ladies if you don't want to
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carry your purse this gives you the
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ability to have a very minimalistic
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carry of an evening and once it's closed
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it's pretty darn hard to tell that this
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is actually a wallet case
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seen a lot of them were like your credit
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card sticks out a little bit and that
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makes me a little anxious because if
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someone wants to rip off your phone
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they're getting a lot more if they see
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all that so I really like this design
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too
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it's the rubber is a bit thicker than it
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is on this one it's a little different
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on the design and you know it's sort of
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wraps around on one edge but not the
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other but as while it cases go this is
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probably the nicest one I've ever seen
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and again the design is really cool
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which reminds me let's talk about design
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so Skinit license is basically every one
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in the known universe
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they have phone cases for iPhones for
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the galaxy line for the ps4 you can get
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skins for your Xbox and not only that
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their licenses include NFL NBA MLB NHL
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MLS all the major sports teams all have
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multiple designs yeah actually I'm not a
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massive Broncos fan but I was very
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tempted by that blue and orange Broncos
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case they have very nice you can also
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create your own design and if you don't
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like that then they also have tons of
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colleges they licensed Disney and Marvel
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and DC and they even have Sanrio so if
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you're a Hello Kitty soda person you can
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get yourself a Hello Kitty cake how cool
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is that
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so really there's not much I don't love
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about this company founded in San Diego
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they've been around since 2005 and every
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case is made in the US some people
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that's important so it's good to know
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and let's see what else can I tell you
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so the wallet which holds two cards is
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thirty four ninety nine so we got all
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the prices and everything and oh I know
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what I want to tell you I want to tell
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you click the subscribe button man thank
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you so now finally you can check out all
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their hundreds of designs you can upload
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your own design and you can pick
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whatever case works best for you for
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whatever kind of smartphone or whatever
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at skinnet comm this is Dave Taylor and
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I am remain a big fan of this company
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and these
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particular case will go back on my phone
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and you'll see it in my subsequent
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videos so I'll catch you in those videos
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