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Apple iPhone 6s Case Roundup and Review!
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May 30, 2025
The arrival of an iPhone 6s from AT&T offers an excuse to get some of the latest iPhone cases from Otterbox, Rokform, Pelican, Mophie and Skinit and see which one's the best for your phone protection needs! And sharp-eyed viewers will see one that was stuck in its "anti-theft" package, weirdly enough! By Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to talk about iphone cases specifically
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for the Apple iPhone 6s now the 6s and
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the six are supposed to be the same but
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there's teeny tiny differences in how
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things are sized so when I got my shiny
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new iphone 6s from AT&T well it's from
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Apple via AT&T Wireless but when i got
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my success i said this is a really
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expensive device it might be beautifully
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thin but it's also not incredibly strong
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none of these devices are really super
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strong so I need a protective case what
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I did is I then went and contacted a
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bunch of vendors and said do me a favor
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send me your stuff so let's go through
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them first one is the pelican protector
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and like many it has a hard component
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the blue and it has a soft more
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rubberized component the green so your
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phone slips in pretty darn easy and see
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I say pretty darn easy now I have to
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prove that right so here it is it's in
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the phone and no the phone is in it you
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know what I mean and one of the things I
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think is really important to look for
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with these cases is that you want the
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top surface of the case to be slightly
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higher than the surface of the screen so
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that if you drop it this way it's not
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the screen that absorbs the impact it's
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the edge of the case itself and the
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Pelican does that perfectly it's just
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far enough up that you have that
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protection but it still keeps it pretty
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darn slim as for the colors and such
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well I guess blue and lime green are an
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acquired color combination taste I'll
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talk about which one I like the most
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after we've gone through them all but
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this you can learn more at pelican calm
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and sue me i can get the phone out or we
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can do it it's actually the worst part
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of switching cases is i always feel like
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i'm going to actually break my phone
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doing this
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okay we're good we planned that so the
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case is forty dollars but you can find
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you for about twenty bucks online if you
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look around so that's the Pelican case
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the next one is actually considerably
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more unusual this is the rock form and
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that's our okay fo RM and like the
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Pelican it has the rubber insert but
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this is where things get different
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because it has a cast aluminum back so
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that becomes part of the case so you can
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use it just like that and now we have a
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nice rubberized case with the aluminum
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back which gives you some strength but
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where this case really shines is that it
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comes with a bunch of different mounting
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kits so here's one that I can put in
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that works in combination with this
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little battery it's not actually a
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battery that's why it's a magnet so you
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put this in here and now you can make it
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a really nice car mount and you can see
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it's plenty strong enough to hold your
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phone so you can have the mount on your
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dashboard of your vehicle for example
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and if you have this insert in the case
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anytime you want boom it's right on your
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phone right on your car dashboard they
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also has another mounting kit that has
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this with velcro and you can see that
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one has the matching hole so again you
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put this on something maybe your bicycle
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maybe your boat and whenever you want
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you just slip your phone on there you
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click it and now your phone is sitting
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in its Pro Tour you know protective case
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on whatever device you've actually
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mounted the base on so really pretty
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slick it's they've done a really nice
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job designing this if you're looking for
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something where you need to have that
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mounting kit the rock form is very very
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nice solution but here's the downside
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it's a hundred bucks so this is by far
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the most expensive of the cases i'll be
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looking at so are okay fo RM calm and i
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think it actually started out as a
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kickstarter but be that as it may i also
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got to otter boxes i really like
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otterbox so here's the smaller of the
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to this is called the symmetry and this
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is one of the smallest cases that I'm
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looking at and again as OtterBox is well
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known for its protective cases their
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cases are getting much much slimmer that
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used to be these big hulking boxes my
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guess is probably better access to the
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materials they're probably designing
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with different materials and they used
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to whatever the case this one turns out
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to be really nice it has again the soft
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insert and there once you get your phone
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in it it's even slimmer I think then the
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Pelican the dark is the hard and the
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light blue is more rubberized and as
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always what they do is these cases tend
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to duplicate the buttons on the outside
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edge so it doesn't give you any
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waterproof capabilities or anything but
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it is again just a little bit off the
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top surface and I really like this one
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they've done a really nice job of
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evolving their product line and the
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symmetry is 3995 but you can find it for
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just under 20 bucks online in various
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places and there must be some trick to
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this I think people that are like their
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professional testers probably have their
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secret way of doing this so the other
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one they sent me is the strata and let's
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see looks like there's well I'm not
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going to destroy the case on the camera
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but what this does is it's actually like
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a little mini wallet and you know you
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put your phone on this side as you can
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see hopefully right and then there's the
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nice little leather cover and there's
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got magnet going on here and it gives
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you a really nice more sophisticated
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look and of course it has a cover on it
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so it's going to be much more protection
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for the screen than one of these sort of
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cases where you just have the sort of
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back and sides protected there's also
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space for a credit card and a lot of my
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friends that's really the direction
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they're moving in where they have just
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one credit card if that and they don't
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really carry much else maybe their
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drivers license so
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obviously there's a little bit of a
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trick to get this out of the case which
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I have not yet done but that's okay it's
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a really nice looking case and I just
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have to laugh I mean seriously some of
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these cases and really the issue with
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this and the same with like the Pelican
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you'll notice that I actually had the
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pre hacksaw the cover to be able to get
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the case out a lot of that is because
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when they have them in retail outlets
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there's a lot of theft I don't really
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understand people that have that level
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of confidence and stuff but they walk in
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they pick one up they stand in the
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quietest aisle and they like cut it away
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and slip it in their pocket or put it on
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their phone and walk out so all these
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companies have to deal with that which
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means that we have to deal with all of
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this which is a drag but this one this
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is the Pelican strata this is leather
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it's a very nice sophisticated very
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professional iphone case and it's 4995
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and you can find it for probably about
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five or ten bucks less online if you're
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a savvy shopper and both this and the
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symmetry or from OtterBox and both of
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them you can find more at OtterBox com
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which brings us down to our last two
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cases one of which is one that just
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arrived yesterday actually this I think
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just came out on the market this is the
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mophie juice pack reserve now if you go
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to trade shows and stuff you are very
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familiar with the problem of battery
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life so we're mophie really rocks it is
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this iphone case has an extra battery so
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you slip your phone in and I also
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appreciate that I don't have to actually
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potentially break my phone to get it
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into the case and you slip this guy back
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on the top and so now i have my iphone
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case and its really pretty amazingly
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thin for a battery case and now it
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actually has an extra battery so this
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gives me what is it about 1800 milliamp
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hours so that's basically almost a whole
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nother iphone battery so what this does
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is that it means that if you're at a
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trade show all
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day or if you're in school all day or
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something you don't have to worry about
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charging your phone two-thirds of the
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way through the day because this gives
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you essentially an extra charge super
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easy it's slim it has a nice feel to it
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and one of the things I like is that mo
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fees juice packs mo fees battery packs
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seem to have been coming down in price
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might be that they just have access to
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better less expensive components
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whatever the mystery is this is only 60
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bucks and I can remember when mophie
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first came out with their units and they
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were thicker considerably thicker
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probably like a good quarter inch
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thicker and those were up around a
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hundred bucks so 60 bucks for this this
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is a no-brainer if you actually go to
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events where you constantly think about
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oh my god I gotta charge my phone or I'm
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not going to be able to connect with my
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friends for dinner or something so I
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really like the mophie juice pack
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reserve and as I said I appreciate the
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fact that I can just slide my phone in
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and out it's kind of a convenient
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feature which brings us to the very last
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10 mophie calm get you more information
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on their entire product line they have
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lots of really cool stuff and the last
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one I have is the skin it and skin it's
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really fun because what they do is they
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basically have a really high quality
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plastic printing system so you can get
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hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
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different designs this one is called any
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guesses anyone and he guesses
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psychedelic circles right I knew you
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knew that so again it's a hard exterior
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it's a soft interior and this one's
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particularly easy to work with you slip
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your phone in you can see I did that
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incredibly fast now you slip this into
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the hard case and you're done you're
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good to go it's really super thin it's
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it really honestly is just a fraction
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thicker than the phone itself that comes
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up above the screen just a little bit
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and I love their designs they also have
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a lot of licenses for like the NFL and
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stuff so if you want to show your team
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colors or your school colors or
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something they can do it and this guy is
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35 bucks well 3499 skinit com and why
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did I leave this one to last because of
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all
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use different iphone cases this is the
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one I like the best I like it because
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it's slick so it's easy to get in and
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out of your pocket it has a lot of
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protective capabilities with the hard
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plastic and it's easy to work with and
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it also makes my phone essentially just
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a fraction of a millimeter thicker so a
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lot of different choices a lot of
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different cases for the iphone 6 and 6s
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turns out that they actually are pretty
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much compatible but depending on what
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you're interested in you might find the
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rock forms a great match for a mounting
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system you might actually like the more
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sophisticated OtterBox leather strata
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you might also be able to figure out how
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to take it out of the package
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successfully which would give you one up
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on me and a lot of these other cases
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they each have their charms they each
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have their benefits so no huge winner
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because they're different but like i
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said the skin it with the psychedelic
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circles i really like it this is the pro
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case these are all iphone 6 cases this
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is dave taylor and i'll see you in my
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