Bodyguardz Rugged & Stylish iPhone Case Review
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Jun 22, 2024
There are a whole lot of different choices when it comes to cases for your smartphone,; whether you have the latest iPhone XS Max or a Samsung Galaxy S9. But a great case manages to combine toughness, protection and style so that you know it's keeping your precious device safe while looking hip and stylish. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked out two different Bodyguardz cases, the Ace Pro and the Harmony, for the Apple iPhone XS, and found them not quite a great solution, as he explains... Learn more about 'em at https://www.bodyguardz.com/
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Premium iPhone cases, but are they worth it? Let's have a look
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm looking at iPhone cases again. Yes, there are a zillion iPhone cases out there, but I'm always on the market
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always looking for that perfect case. So, bodyguards sent me a couple of different cases
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Well, more than a couple, but it really represents two different styles. This is the Ace Pro
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There's two of these. And then there are three that are the Harmony design. So all of these feature lifetime warranty, which is good because they're fairly spendy
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but we'll get back to the price in a bit. So let's start out with the Ace Pro
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So I have two different color schemes. Let's pull this out. So this one is known as clear
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And you can see it has a really nice bumper on the side. They call it impact gel
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And it's very low profile. So here's basically the same. case the only difference is that the bumper is white versus gray so let's go
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ahead and put it on the phone and see what it looks like so this is for the iPhone 10 and 10 s as you see it goes on pretty darn easy and all the
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cutouts and everything are perfectly sized and everything you can see in the close-up the speakers the plug everything it all is just so which is good and
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exactly what you would expect it also has just the barest actually you know it
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says they have a bezel that's above the surface of the screen and that might be true but with my
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screen protector on it's basically the same height and that's a bit of an issue because if your
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phone hits face down you want to have the case absorb the impact not the screen so if you a screen protector sort of person then that is one feature that does not unfortunately seem to translate well
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But the bumpers are really good. And of course, with wireless charging, we want to test and see
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And it does do wireless charging as exactly as I would expect
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So that's the Ace Pro, and the buttons and everything, they're all plasticy, but it's all good
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and it comes in clear or smoke black or clear gray, which is this one, or pink and white
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which I don't have, I guess this is just, I don't know, maybe this is the clear model which has the white edge on it
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Not exactly sure. So, this particular case will run you 3495 at bodyguards.com, but let's go and look at the other one
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because I think the harmony is actually the cooler case. So now the harmony case, here's a funny bit of trivia, this design was, quote
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Inspired by women's sunglasses is what the company says. And as you can see, hopefully, everything has a gradiation on it
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So this is gray, and they went way much more fun in terms of the color names
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So we got this one too, which goes from a sort of aqua to magenta
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And then we have a third one that goes from, let's see, from clear to a nice dark violet
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So I know these are really hard for you to see, but let's just sort of run with it
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Trust me on this color schemes. Or you can go onto their website and look at them, right
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So let's go ahead and put one of these on the phone, and it's slightly more snug, but
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this is actually a better fitting case and it a little more protective but it does have that same issue where the bezel really is only maybe just barely above the surface of my screen protector If I didn have a screen protector then I would definitely have that security
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But this is actually a better made case, though it does, well, yeah, I know though about it
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Actually, this is just a nicer case. One of the things that's really interesting about it is that it is that sort of impact absorbent TPU and everything
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but the buttons, as you can see in this close-up, are actually metal
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And that's kind of a nice little sort of premium-looking feature. And the other thing that I think is really interesting about it is on the very bottom
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You can see in this close-up that they actually have a screen over the speaker holes
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so that it actually helps protect the phone. It doesn't actually do anything about the plug connector, so it's not full protection
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It's not designed to be a full, you know, all-encompassing case. but in terms of just having something where there's some good impact absorption and a very nice looking design, this definitely meets your needs, and it does wireless charging. Again, I mean, no surprise there. Of course it does that. So that's really all I can say about these. I love the colors. The color names, right? So I told you the color names of the Ace Pro, right? The harmony color names are, are you ready for this? Unicorn, Rose Quartz, Amethyst, Lucky
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and shade. So what are these? Well, I have a darn good question
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Let's see. So I don't see where on the label it tells us color names
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So I will not be able to translate the cases I have to their fancy color names, but I don't care because I just
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want to give them extra props for these great color names You know whether you understand what color lucky is versus unicorn That on you man But they just great names They very fun And as you can see
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hopefully, it's really very attractive. I think I'm going to just leave this case on my phone for
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a while and enjoy it because it's just the colors. They really nailed the colors. And the whole
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shape of it, it just has a really nice feel. Now, before I tell you the price of the harmonies
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let me go ahead and ask if you can click and subscribe. on my channel. I really appreciate when you subscribe and leave me a comment if you have an iPhone or
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heck, any phone, what kind of case do you have on it? And don't tell me you're one of that minority
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of people that just have their phone with no cases. Every time I see someone like that, it makes me
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anxious and it does not surprise me when I see people with phones without cases that have cracked
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screens. These are very, very expensive devices. You really want to invest a little bit in
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protection. Now, having said that, the Harmony is the more expensive one from BodyGards. The Harmony iPhone 10 or
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10S case will cost you 3995 and you can pick it up at BodyGards.com and they also sell them through all the
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main cell phone outlets and you can pick them up at Best Buy 2. So I like these. I wish they had a little
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bit more bezel on them but otherwise there's a lot to like about these particular cases and I think
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this one's going to stay on my iPhone which means I will catch. to you in my next video
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