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When tech expert Dave Taylor asked SMARTISH to send an iPhone case for review, he didn't expect to get the full lineup of products and accessories, but they're terrific. Very well made, affordable, and with a little bit of wit and verve. Specifically, he looks at the ChargeShack wall charger, Crown Joule cable, Charge Island wireless QI charger and Gripzilla case for the iPhone 14 Pro.
Check the lineup out at: https://www.Smartish.com/
or, if you prefer Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Ca8YTh
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It's a full lineup of smartphone accessories
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Let's check them out. Dave Taylor here, and I got a ton of things from Smartish
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As you can see, I said, hey, you guys should send me a phone case, and they said, we'll send you everything
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So I got an array of everything this company makes. Really, really fun
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They make really good quality, affordable. accessories and peripherals for smartphones, specifically mostly for iPhone, but a lot of them work with other devices
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And they have really fun packaging. You can see, for example, the phone case is called Gripzilla
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and then one of the other phone cases is called Grip Monk. And then the one that has the ability to put credit cards in the back is called the Wallet Slayer
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And let's see, keep going down a list here. The Fairy Podmother for AirPods
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and the prop tart to be able to prop your phone up
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And if you want to just put the little card case on because you have MagSafe and that big magnet on the back of your phone
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that's the side hustle. So I looked at all this stuff and I'm like, holy moly
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this is way more than I can manage. So I boiled it down to the four most interesting elements
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that are actually something that's more than just what you can figure out in a picture
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So I'm going to start with this. this is what they call their charge shack and it's very nice it's a wall plug charger with
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USBc and USBA and they combined to give you 32 watts of power which means that either of them is
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going to give you a quick charge how quick a charge well I took my iPhone 14 pro and in 15 minutes
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I plugged it in using their cable get back to that in a second into the use
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USB port and in 15 minutes I got a 24% charge. 15 minutes
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That's pretty sweet. That means my phone basically was fully charged in way less than an hour
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So really nice. Let me put my phone down Let pick this up again And so the charge shack is 2999 I gonna just give you prices as I go and then I summarize it all at the end
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And to do that, I used their cable. They have these really nice cables, lifetime warranty, braided fabric exterior
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and they're extra tough on the connections so that they hopefully will last a super long time
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And I got to admit, not a huge fan of the multi-function end
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on these, but it is functional in the sense that it gives you a lot of capabilities
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So, one end is USBA, which is the big rectangular USB connection
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and then the other end has this adapter, so it's micro USB by default
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but then you can plug it in and get lightning, or you can plug it in the other way and get USBC
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Now, it works, and you know, it's not the worst solution in the world
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but like I said I kind of prefer to have single-use cables be that as it may
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that's the crown jewel and you can see it's a nice length it's pretty darn long
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and it is 1499 and they do have different combinations so if you want
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different ports or plugs or something then there are a variety of ways you can do
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that now there's also the charge island and this one is really fun well
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there's a bunch of stickers And let me just show you their packaging. So open Sesame, right
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And so you open it. And here's my charging pad. But before I would get to that
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I would have information on contacting us if there's a problem, a user guide
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There was a sticker. That's what fell on the floor. And if I pop this out, then not only do I have this really cool
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wireless Chi charging pad. but it comes with a USB-A to USBC cable
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another one of their crown jewel cables. So it includes that, which means that I can
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for example, demonstrate it by plugging it in, plugging that into the wall
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And then I gonna go ahead and plug this into the Cheech charger There the end So now it ready to go right Well let find out So I going to put my iPhone on it
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And I don't know if you could see, but it is indeed charging wirelessly
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But to make this test a little more interesting, I'm going to put my AirPods Pro on here instead
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because that is a little more sensitive about finding that spot, and it's immediately lit up
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Works great. I really have to say that I really like the design
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It's very attractive. It actually comes with four different designs, and it's up to 15 watts of wireless charging
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So your iPhone and other I devices from Apple, people say I devices anymore
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But all of those are going to get the 7.5 watt charge because that's generally how Apple constrains it
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But other devices like Android devices, like for example, my Google Pixel 6 Pro will get that full 15 watts
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and it'll do a faster charge, but mostly look at that cool design
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And obviously it's very lay flat, so it's something you could easily have on your desk right next to your computer
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And whatever device you need to put on there, you just lay on there and it charges
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So price-wise, it's also very reasonably priced, particularly when you remember that it comes with the USBC to USBA cable
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So it's $2,999.99 like this. But if you want to get a charger to plug it into the wall too, that adds $10 to the price, which is pretty benign if you ask me
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Cool. Now, let me close this one up and we only have one more that I wanted to look at
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And that is actually the case that's on my iPhone. This is the Gripzilla
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And it's a really nice design that sides here are sort of wavy to give you better, I guess, hold for your fingers
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and it's tough, has air pockets. It's raised a little bit above the screen
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The irony, of course, is I said, send me an iPhone case, and they sent me all of this
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So on the plus side, look at all this cool stuff I got. This also has seven, I'm sorry, five different designs
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It is MagSafe compatible so I can use it Obviously you just saw that I did it with wireless charging but with MagSafe it actually lets that magnet through and that power through
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so I can charge my phone with the case on. Now, I'm not a huge fan of this color scheme
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This feels like they should have put a graphic on here, but they forgot. They didn't
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It's just the design that they have. But the other designs they have, there's five different styles
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I think the other designs are more attractive. But ultimately, the key purpose of this case is to protect my phone because that's a really expensive phone and I don't want anything bad to happen to it
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So this phone case is $2,999. So everything is really reasonably priced
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So let me give you my final thoughts on this, but first, I'm going to ask if you could subscribe to my channel, click or tap on that subscribe button, and we're connected
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Thank you. I appreciate that. Cool. All of this is all from Smartish. You can find it all at smartish.com or at Amazon. And I will just super quickly run down. This is the charge shack. It's 2999. Probably my favorite of all the things here. And then let's see. Then there's this cable. This is the crown jewel. Again, they have a very playful sense with their product naming and their packaging and everything, which I appreciate
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This is the charge island, one of four different designs. It's a 15 watt Chi charger
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With a design on the back, you can see where they've anticipated potential heat issues
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and figured out how to mitigate that. Very important. And finally, this is the Gripzilla
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and they have phone cases for the entire modern iPhone line. So check out their site, smartish.com
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It's a lot of gear. I hope you found this useful. And I'll catch you
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in my next video
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