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I TESTED the Fantom M Carbon Minimalist Wallet for 5 Months
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Jan 25, 2025
After five months of testing the carbon fiber, extra-slim version of the Fantom M wallet, it's time to let you guys know what John has learned about this interesting minimalist wallet. He's going to share what he likes, doesn't like, and exactly who it is for! Get your Fantom M Wallet here (Paid Link): https://amzn.to/3VObrh8 Read the full article here: https://gear43.com/fantom-m-extra-slim-carbon-fiber-review
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hey guys welcome back to the channel uh
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today we're going to be talking about
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the Phantom M wallet from Phantom
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wallets uh I've had this wallet now for
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gosh I think probably about four months
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now so uh I put it through its Paces
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it's been my daily driver um so I think
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that I can speak to its strengths and
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its weaknesses so thankful for uh
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phantom for sending this wallet out for
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uh to us to do a review on and uh with
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that let's go ahead and get into it so
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again this is the Phantom M wallet uh in
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carbon fiber this is the slim this one
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Fe features a wallet that holds seven
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cards I don't quite have seven in that I
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have put it at its full capacity and it
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still functions with all seven cards in
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there I have about five in here right
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now it's got a little mechanical lever
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on the side here that fans them all out
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I really like that uh makes ease of
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access to the cards um haven't had an
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issue where I haven't been able to get a
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card out hasn't gotten stuck I've had
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quite a few minimalist wallets in my
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time and I think this one so far has
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been better than most of them um that
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being said again this one's the carbon
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color it has about three or four other
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options on the website uh other options
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include the money clip which I did also
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get sent to me um and I opted to put
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that on there you can unscrew it from
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the top take those off also I believe
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this one is mag safe yep so this one's
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got our mag safe on there uh I have a
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non magsafe phone but uh they were
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fortunate enough to send me a magsafe
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sticker for the back of my phone so I do
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use that not as often as some people but
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uh is an option for those of you who do
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not have iPhones and then uh now we're
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going to go ahead and talk about what I
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like about this wallet um I kind of
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already talked about it but probably my
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favorite thing about this wallet is the
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ease of access again fans out got all
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your um cards here at your disposal you
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can pick whichever one you want I mean
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some some other wallets that I've had uh
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trying to grab a card from the middle or
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even the back could kind of be a pain to
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get to this one you can literally grab
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any of them and they slide right out no
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issues again it's always fanned out
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every time I pulled this lever um other
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things I like about it is it's very very
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slim I've had some other slim wallets in
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my time um and this one you don't really
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notice that it's in your back pocket um
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some people uh like to wear them in
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their front pockets back pocket I'm a
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back pocket person um doesn't matter
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really where you're going to put it it's
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not going to be something you're going
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to notice so one more thing I wanted to
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hit on that I really liked about this is
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um despite it being a minimalist wallet
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it does have a lot of op for accessories
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so again I've got the money clip on this
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this one you can take right off of there
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if you are one who does not like money
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clips like me I put it on here so we can
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uh show it off on the channel uh other
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options it does have again it has uh
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magsafe and then it had a magsafe
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sticker for those of you who don't have
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phones with Mac safe built in but yeah
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it has a lot of accessory options and uh
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there's even more on the website if you
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want to check that out now to the things
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that I'm not a huge fan of on this
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wallet it's not a super huge deal you
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can take it off but I'm not a huge huge
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fan of money clips in general and this
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one not my favorite um and that being I
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don't use it very often it's pretty
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stiff which I guess isn't a terrible
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thing but it's really hard to get money
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up on underneath it I don't know if you
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can quite see that but you got to put a
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little bit of strength on that guy uh
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another thing is it's a little bit bulky
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if you don't put in your pocket just
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right you're going to feel it digging
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into your backside or into your pocket
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uh which is a negative for me and
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another thing I did not like about this
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wallet is do tend to lean heavily
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towards iPhone uh products um they don't
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have a lot of Android support I have an
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Android phone myself um on the website
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you can get a uh iPhone tracking card
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that you can fit into the wallet so that
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you're not going to lose it you'll be
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able to tell where your wallet is at all
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times unfortunately that is only
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compatible with iOS at this time so uh
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not compatible with Android phones again
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it's mag safe uh Android doesn't have
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the mag safe they do try and mitigate
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that with the uh mag safe sticker which
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I have
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uh it's a good option but it's not as
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good as having the actual thing for um
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the back of your phone like an iPhone
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does and now who should buy this wallet
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uh I think the minimalist uh I don't
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carry a lot of cards with me I don't
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have this even at full capacity I think
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I've got five cards in here like I said
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earlier most people I guess today are
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only going to be packing a lot of debit
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cards credit cards not a lot of people
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uh pack cash um so the slim design uh is
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really awesome for that uh does give you
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the option to pack all of your cards I
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mean if you have more than seven cards
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sorry this one is not for you um this is
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definitely for the person who just likes
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to keep it simple and that's all we've
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got for you today guys uh thanks for
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coming back to channel watching the
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review um if you found anything Co
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again thanks we'll see you later
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