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You can stick with your default Apple Watch band and keep your Apple AirPods pristine in the white plastic case, but let's be candid; it's all ridiculously boring. Enter Nomad Goods, with its line of beautiful leather alternatives.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews both the brand new Nomad leather AirPods Case and the Modern Strap for the Apple Watch. And they match!
There's lots to like about this affordable upgrade to your Apple gear. You'll be hanging with the CEO in no time with this executive setup...
Learn more: https://www.HelloNomad.com/
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Make your Apple products more stylish with leather? Let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here and yes I have my full retinue of Apple products including Apple Airpods and an Apple Watch
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But the thing is is that over time they become maybe, I don't know, a little less fashion statements and a little more
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look how much money I spent on my products. I know, slightly cynical
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But here's the thing is that Nomad makes these really cool leather products that make everything suddenly look way better
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I'm going to start with this. This is a brand new addition to their line
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These are Airpods case and it's actually really pretty slick. It's made out of leather
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It's a two-piece unit. We just did the unboxing. You saw it right there
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Here are the two pieces and they fit on the Airpods nice and easy. Let me make sure I do it the right way
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Let's see. I think it goes the other way maybe. So it fits like this and then you put the top piece on and we are good to go
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So there you have it. Very nice looking. Your Airpods suddenly have a swanky leather coat on
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And important questions. Number one, it opens up which is why in the back there's a little cutout
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So there's space for the leather case. And then the other question that's really important is does it fit for charging
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Now I thought a very funny question that they had on their site was does this give you wireless charging with your Airpods
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And the answer is of course it doesn't. Apple someday will actually release Airpods with wireless charging
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Until that happens and I'm guessing late 2029 at this point. Until that happens you can at least put this leather case on and make your Airpods look more cool
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Now let me tell you this is Horween leather and that's actually a very well-known leather shop in the United States that does really super high quality leather
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And this is the kind of leather where as you use it it will actually start to actually change color and soften based on it being in the sun and based on the oils on your hand
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So a lot of these products a lot of leather products when they start to look really beautiful that's after you've been using them for weeks or sometimes even months or years
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This is something just like that. And it is 1.5 millimeters thick so it is still very thin. It hasn't really added much to the size of the Airpods which is important
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And then it comes in three different colors. This is rustic brown. It also has a natural and black are the other two colors
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Oops and you can see it protects your Airpods if they fall. And I'll tell you the price in a minute so let's hold on to that thought
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Because the other one that's interesting is they also have now since they have the leather for your Airpods they have matching leather straps
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So this actually is for an Apple Watch. Let's see if I can get it out of the case. Let's see. So here we go
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This is the modern strap for the Apple Watch and it comes in two sizes. There is a size that is for 42 or 44 millimeter Apple Watches
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And then there is a smaller one for 40 or 38 millimeter Apple Watches. And the hardware I have it this has the black hardware
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You can also get it with silver hardware. In both cases it's made out of stainless steel which is good
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And again it's that same Horween leather. If you look they look very similar because they're probably they might even be from the same cow
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You know leather comes from cows. Yeah we've had that discussion. Okay good. Now let me take the old Nomad band off of my Apple Watch
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See that's how much I like these guys. I've been using their band for a long time. And we'll put the new one on instead
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And as you're noticing it's actually really quite easy to change the band on your Apple Watch
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So all you have to do is line things up and push the button and slide it in and it locks into place
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So there's half my job and then the other half I'll just do from the top
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And there is a button that I guess there's some sort of thing that expands and then shrinks down
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And so now it's all locked into place and I have a very attractive band on my Apple Watch
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Certainly it's looking a little nicer than this older one which has a nicely aged leather look to it
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But it also has some age and wear marks from where the strap has been and so on and so forth
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So this new one is actually very attractive. I will go ahead and put it on my wrist obviously for the very first time
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We'll see if actually all the hardware works. And my goodness look at that. The watch fits on my wrist
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So now we have my Apple Watch with its new Nomad Modern Strap that matches the new leather AirPods case
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So that's pretty nice. This is a very like executive gift set to have both of these
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Now let me tell you the Modern Strap as I said it comes in two different sizes based on what size Apple Watch you have
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It's also Horween leather. The hardware which means both the part that connects to the watch and the buckle assembly you can get in silver or black
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And this also comes in three colors but they're not exactly the same colors as the AirPods case
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So AirPods case is in natural rustic brown or black and the Apple Watch band comes in brown or black or slate gray
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So all very nice. Now I will tell you all the prices of these two products but before we get there I want to ask if you can subscribe to my channel
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Now the AirPods case and let me give you also this close-up because they also have some black leather here or actually well no that's actually a plastic
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So they're sort of a combination of leather and they're using some plastics to have it be well fit and actually give you maybe some impact protection
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So this close-up gives you a better sense of what that looks like. It's pretty subtle but it actually makes it nice
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It looks like it almost has a little racing stripe. So the AirPods rugged case is $29.95
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You can pick it up at HelloNomad.com and the Apple Watch modern strap is $59.95 and again you can pick it up at HelloNomad.com
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And I gotta say I really like changing the bands on my Apple Watch because it just gives it a little bit more personality
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I find the Apple bands are insanely like crazy overpriced for what they are
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So going to third parties like Nomad gives you a lot of options without it actually necessarily breaking the bank
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So between the two of these I feel like I have taken a step into an executive lifestyle with my Apple product line
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So I hope you appreciate this and I hope you appreciate this review and that means we're done which means I'll catch you in my next video
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Thanks for watching
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