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iPhone XR Luxury Case Roundup & Review from Nomad and Pad & Quill
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May 29, 2025
So ya got an Apple iPhone XR and you're ready for a wallet or luxury leather case. But which one? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ looks at the best cases from both Pad & Quill and Nomad to find out which is the luxury wallet / leather case he'd choose. Does it all go as planned as he checks out the Timberline, Bella Fina, Heritage Bella Fina, Rugged Case and Rugged Tri-Folio? Of course not. But in the end, there's a clear winner from this lineup, as you'll find out in this detailed review video for the iPhone XR. Learn more at https://www.PadAndQuill.com/ and check out Nomad at https://www.HelloNomad.com/
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premium cases for the iPhone 10 are
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let's have a look Dave Taylor here and
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I'm looking at cases for the iPhone 10
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are that's this and I have two different
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brands of premium cases first one we're
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gonna look at are his pad and quill and
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we're gonna start out with this nice
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presentation box and this is actually a
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wooden case this is the Timberline hard
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case and it's really pretty cool because
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they have this sort of soft rubber it's
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not actually very soft hard rubber
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plastic you sort of thing on the inside
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and then they have a wood on the back
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and this is actually an American walnut
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it's a beautiful piece of wood it looks
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very nice now let's see we'll put the
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phone in and it fits in easily enough
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and it's very slim however there is zero
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bezel so this is something you should
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know is if this is how you're gonna
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carry your phone if it falls facedown
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there is no protection from this case at
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all which is kind of interesting because
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there's no reason they couldn't have
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actually added some protection but they
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didn't so it is FSC certified and FSC is
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Forest Stewardship Council so this is
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basically a green and sustainably
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harvested wood that they're using it
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comes in American walnut or rosewood
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which is a little bit lighter colored
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and they're 39.95 and of course the
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biggest most important another question
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I'm always looking at the bezel but I'm
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also looking at does it work wirelessly
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and as you can see it does indeed
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continue to charge wirelessly so that
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one's nice let's move forward a little
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bit onto the next one so let's see the
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next one I have from pad and quill is
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this this is the Bella vino and this is
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actually really nice it's a wallet style
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and on this side there's space for five
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to seven credit cards and the frontmost
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has a nice visibility hole there so if
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you put your driver's license there
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people will be able to see it and there
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is a pocket behind all the cards and
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that is where you could put some money
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if you're
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inclined and then the phone fits on this
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side and of course this is the same
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material as the interior of this one so
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we will put the phone in here and it
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fits in very nicely it does not fall out
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and it's a nice case design now I will
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note that there's nothing to keep it
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closed there's no magnet there's no
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clasp there's nothing so if you just put
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it down I have a feeling over time it's
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gonna tend to open a little bit so that
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might be something you find super
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annoying that would be up to you
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otherwise it's very nice and as with all
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leather products this is a full grain
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American leather and as with all leather
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products it will get softer and richer
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as time passes because your hand and
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finger oils actually will help that
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process now I will say that the camera
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is pretty far back there and because the
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case has a tendency to sort of Bend a
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little bit here then I'm not entirely
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sure that it doesn't get in the way of
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the very edges of the camera so let's go
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ahead and open up the camera and have a
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quick look to see what happens so let's
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see I can do it this way and then we can
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get to the camera and no I'm not seeing
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any issues so when I look at it looks
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like there could be a problem but the
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camera itself is not demonstrating any
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issues so that's good so this is the
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Bella FINA let's take the phone out of
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it and now we'll move on to the third
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case from pad and quill and I have to
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say they have really interesting
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packaging I feel like I'm opening up you
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know the Declaration of Independence or
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something with the wax seal on it and
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everything so that's kind of fun so this
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one is essentially the same case the
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only difference as you can see between
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these the only difference is the actual
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back so this one is known as the
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Heritage Bella Fino so it is also going
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to be essentially all the same design
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all the same characteristics and
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interestingly it is actually for a
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different sized phone
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so I won't be able to demonstrate the
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phone fitting in this one so that's how
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it goes
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seems like every time I'm doing one of
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these roundup reviews there's one case
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that sneaks in that's the wrong size but
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let's go back to this the Bella Fino and
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I want to just show you that it does
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work we don't see get it back to here it
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is working with wireless charging so
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that's really important because one of
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the great things about the 10r
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is it supports wireless charging so now
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this might be not exactly the same size
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but let's be honest since the design is
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so incredibly similar that it's really
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just cosmetic differences so that's okay
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if you like this sort of two-tone and
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there's a couple of options for the
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two-tone that this is chocolate and they
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also have a black and then this charcoal
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is this color so there's a couple of
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different ways you can have this color
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wise or you can have this which is just
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a single color and this comes in
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chocolate or whiskey or gala / black I
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really like the names of their colors
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so that's pad and quill and let me see
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so this is 7995 and then this one is
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89.95 right so now let's look at two
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more cases these are both from nomads
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and these are both made out of hor Wien
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leather and honestly I don't know what
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all these leathers are but somewhere
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someone does so this is similar in
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design to the wood case from pad and
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quill in as much as there's an interior
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part that's sort of this like this is
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actually a tepee II or thermoplastic
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elastomer or elastomer material I don't
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know what that is either it's this so
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you know it has that and then on the
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outside it actually has the leather and
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this is a very slim case and it feels
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really nice this is just what's they
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call their rugged case now with a name
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like that however you would think that
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there would be some bezel involved and
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in fact there is again no bezel at all
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so there's no protection for the phone
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so not really a fan of that but I am
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confident that it will do wireless
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charging and you can see right there it
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goes straight to the wireless charging
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no problem so it has a really nice hand
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feel to it and when I look at the
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buttons on the sides and stuff they've
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absolutely nailed all the dimensions and
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the cutout for the phone and everything
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is all really nice it just needs to be
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like one millimeter taller so that means
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we're down to one last case and this
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actually is my favorite this is the
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rugged tri folio from Nomad Oh before we
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finish with this one rugged case in
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polycarbonate body with TPE
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and it comes in brown or black and it's
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4495 then we get to this and this is a
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tri folio it's a trifold how about that
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so basically it looks quite honestly
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like they took this and put a wallet
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around it what that works so put the
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phone in it's super easy to go in and
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again you have that same issue that
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there's no bezel but it doesn't really
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matter as much because you're gonna
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carry it like this alright so again look
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at what how I folded it you don't fold
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it like that because it's really not
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designed this side is really not
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designed to go over the phone although I
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suppose if you really wanted to you
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could probably just soften the leather
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and carry it that way I might be tempted
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to do that but generally speaking you're
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gonna fold these two together let's turn
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off the flashlight alright whatever
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we'll get to it generally speaking
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you're gonna fold these over and then
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fold this over that alright so that
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works out perfectly well and you can see
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there's a slot here you can put some
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money in there there's another slot here
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maybe some ID and then there's one two
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three four different slots for credit
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cards so they say it's for card slots
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and - cash slots however you want to do
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it you know empty it looks a little
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weird but once you actually have it full
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of stuff it's actually gonna work out
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really nicely and I have to say it's
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just a nice case although it is perhaps
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a little clumsy to carry it and have it
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look like this on the side so honestly
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when it really comes down to it I'm not
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sure this is gonna stay as my favorite
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but let me just say well first off let
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me turn off the flashlight much now the
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flashlights got turned on in the first
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place but we'll turn it off there we go
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so this is the Nomad rugged tri folio it
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is only available in this brown and it
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is 7995 which leads us to the conclusion
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of this little roundup of premium cases
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and I am going to perhaps surprise
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everyone and tell you that this pad and
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quill is actually my favorite so this is
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the Bella phyno for the iPhone 10 R and
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I really like that it's just simple I
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wish there was a little clasp or
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something maybe but I have a feeling
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over time as this softens with use its
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gonna naturally form and be just a
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little bit more closed because right now
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brand new out of the box the top is sort
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of splaying out just a little bit not
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great so before I wrap this all up
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entirely however let me ask if you can
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subscribe to my channel and give me some
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feedback do you like wallet cases what
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do you look for if you have a case where
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you have your phone and you have credit
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cards and stuff what's what's like your
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must have with all of this so with that
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thank you for watching this is the pad
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and quill Bella phyno for the 10r
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it is the winner of this little premium
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case shootout and this is Dave Taylor
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and I'll catch you in my next week
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