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The Budget Tudia TAMM & MERGE iPhone X Cases - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
If you're of the mindset that expensive smartphones require expensive cases and are prepared to spend $50 or more on a protective case for your iPhone X, Tudia might well surprise you with their budget lineup! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out both the Tudia TAMM and Tudia MERGE iPhone X cases and really likes what he finds. Tudia TAMM: http://amzn.to/2D0khys Tudia MERGE: http://amzn.to/2F7BEy8
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budget iPhone 10 cases what are they any
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good Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at iPhone 10 cases specifically
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I'm looking at budget iPhone cases now
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usually what I look at seems to be in
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the 40 or 50 or even $60 range
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it's a lot of money for a case so when
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two dia came to me and said do you want
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to look at some of our cases they're ten
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dollars I said absolutely let's give
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them a whirl so here's the first one
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this is the Tam and this is kind of
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funny because it is a carbon fiber
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design but it's actually made out of TP
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you-now TPU if you're familiar with it
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is something that all these iPhone case
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and all these smart phone case companies
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love because it's flexible and bendable
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and it actually snaps back to its exact
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shape every time so it's a really great
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substance better is it also is shock
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absorbing so it does give you some
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protection for your device so that's
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really nice
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now being an iPhone 10 one of the
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critical tests for any cases does it
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charge and so we can answer that with my
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phone salesman Qi charger so let's put
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it on and that beep says that it works
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so that's good now this is the tam case
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and as you can see they do a great job
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of lining up all the buttons and
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everything it's a really well designed
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case and the bevel on it which is the
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amount that it raises above the surface
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of the front is actually a perfect size
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it's a perfect bevel so that if it drops
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then the screen doesn't absorb the
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impact and that's pretty important so
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there's a lot to like about this now the
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Tam comes in black or gray or this which
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is navy blue and I know it kind of looks
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like it's black but there's just a
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little bit of blue to it and here's the
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thing is the price is fantastic it's
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eight dollars and forty nine cents at
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amazon.com I really like it but what I
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like more is I like the other case they
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sent me and look how easy it is to take
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off
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another win there so I just want to
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start by saying I really like their
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packaging because it's just a ziploc bag
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there is a trend in the smartphone case
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industry to have more and more packaging
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and more complicated packaging and it
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might look really good on the shelf
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but it turns out not to be very
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environmentally friendly so props to to
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TIA for just giving it in a ziploc bag
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that just works great now this is the
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merge so while we're talking about it
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let me go ahead and put my phone in it
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and again notice how easy that is boom
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done now this is a two part case because
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you have the interior part this which is
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again a TPU so it's sort of a rubberized
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case very similar to the this one and
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then you have this exterior
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polycarbonate piece and this particular
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one is what's known as mint and I like
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it it's the sort of cheery green and it
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just goes ahead and snaps on the back
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and the logic of their design is that
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you can actually change these and have
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different colors depending on your fancy
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so that's really cool it actually comes
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in four different colors black slate
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mint and rose gold and the rose gold as
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far as I can tell is exactly the same
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color and finish as the rose gold on the
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actual iPhone now of course it's not
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metal it's a plastic but you can make
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pretty metallic looking plastics
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nowadays now one thing I will say is I
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do not think that it would be a great
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idea to be putting your ID or credit
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cards or anything behind here it's
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really not designed to be a hidden
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compartment case or a wallet or anything
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like that so I suppose you could put
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like a 20 on here or something in case
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of an emergency but even then I'm not
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sure I would recommend that but that's
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really the only limitation I have
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otherwise I really like it and again
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they have absolutely nailed exact
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positioning of every hole and everything
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all around and it has the same bevel as
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this one so much to like about this
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merge case from to TIA now before I tell
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you the price of this one and it's going
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to break the bank I
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promises crazy expensive just kidding
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before I do that can I ask you to go
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ahead and click on the subscribe button
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really appreciate that and if this video
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is helpful and and interesting and
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hopefully amusing then give me a thumbs
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up that I appreciate - okay now the
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merge case from - dia will put you back
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you ready with this $10.99 ten bucks at
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amazon.com and you get this hard and
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rubberized case with a nice bevel on it
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and shock absorption and you know what
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at that price you can buy a bunch of
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them and you can have your cases match
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your mood and even your outfit so that
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your case always matches your shoes
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personally I do not do that but if they
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had them that looked like sneakers maybe
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I could do that anyway - to your cases
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really like what they have and I really
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like the price point - so I say check it
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out Steve Taylor and I'll catch you in
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my next video
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