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usa. welcome to my unboxing of the
OtterBox Armor Series the toughest case
ever built so it's available for a number of different phones uh of which
the Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of them the
iPhone 4 is one of them so I asked for the iPhone 4 case cuz I don't have an S3
so uh there it is it's a little bit on the scuffed upside my iPhone at this
point it's been in use for almost 3 years so I mean this is more like the
kind of thing I would buy for a new phone but anyway here it is now this is
a press kit so um so basically don't
expect yours to necessarily come packaged exactly like this but it's
waterproof drop proof dust proof and
Crush proof the watertight latches here on the side use a patented o-ring
technology Port covers and mesh coverings tolerate
submersions for 30 minutes and up to 6.6 ft of water so there's the waterproof
these guys the membranes and meshes that
that are able to sustain waterproofness for a pretty long period of time there
non-permeable membranes and protective mesh layer keep harmful elements out
while allowing only sound to pass through so your speakers will still work
because of the membranes but the water won't be able to get in see there's an O-ring for the port uh to plug into
charge high strength reinforced plastic withstands crushing force of up to 2
tons so presumably I can stand on it no problem and it's uh not going to have
any issues so there we go we already figured that out corrosion resistant
metal latches lock the two halves of the case together built-in screen protector prents scratches and damage to the glass
display and so we are actually going to go ahead and uh put my iPhone 4 in here
because I am going to be starting my Android I switched so this is the
HTC1 very very shortly here and I think I'm pretty much done with my iPhone 4
based on some toying around that I've done with the HTC1 so far so let's have
a close look at the case on the bottom you can see there's a grill there and a
membrane there then the O-ring seal here you can also actually see the O-ring
here cuz this isn't totally sealed I had this out of the box already so I could check it out but uh that's how all of
that seals there you go you put that right there on the side here we've got
the two corrosion resistant metal hinges the back here is a reinforced plastic
with a spot for the flash as well as the camera on the top you've got your lock
button quite stiff actually as well as
your headphone there we go headphone jack right there which is again got uh a
membrane seal by the look of things and an O-ring seal around the outside so you
can plug your headphones in without worrying about that there's your uh mute
or your orientation lock depending how you have that configured and there's your volume up and down all these are
quite stiff but what I'm expecting is once I actually get a phone in here
things will change a little bit so peel those back just like that ow okay I
don't have very strong nails so that's a little bit tough but there we go and
let's see how she actually opens up I've never used an Otter Box before I've
never really done the whole cell phone case thing because I don't really drop my cell phone but inside we find a super
super grippy um layer here so that's going to
allow you to put the phone down on it and have it not move while you're while
you're actually installing the rest of the case so that's good it's also very
cushiony so it's got some thickness to it so you can here we'll do H we'll do
an iPhone comparison there you go so you can see how thick the actual backing
layer is here there's that O-ring that seals up the whole case and uh here we
go so these pieces here latch into these
notches here you can see the way that all of these buttons pass through so
it's actually rubber that is sealed onto the case itself and then the tactile
feedback that you're going to get is probably going to be from the buttons
themselves so that's other than that these are just uh these are just rubber
here so the cushioning around the side of the case is provided by this is a bit
of a harder plastic than what we found here which is more cushiony so because
they've only got so much thickness that they can put around it but I'll go ahead and do an iPhone thickness comparison
there actually that's quite thick um so they've got one two three layers that
are between your phone and any kind of accidental damage and you can see they've built up the corners a fair bit
more than the actual straightaways here and that's understandable because that's
where there's the most risk of damage home buttons right here see I don't
think never showed that before and then the uh the plastic cover is here so
let's go ahead and install it show you guys how simple this is this is probably
the way I would actually install it as opposed to going the other way which is what I suggested the first time just go
ahead slide that on so this turns the iPhone 4 which is
normally other than its weight pretty sleek and elegant into a bit of a brick
so there's that um oh hold
on I don't know if I did this quite right okay so I want to make sure that
I'm getting I'm getting the right seal because there's a pond here I'm planning
to throw the phone into it so I'm really really hoping that I get this on right
before before I proceed with that so yeah there we go so once you get the
O-ring into place it's just a matter of bringing the latches up like this and
then latching it on just like that so I'm not real confident about that I'm
going to play around with this a little bit off camera we'll be back in a moment
all right so it was just a matter of squeezing it pretty good and then getting the latches on there so now it's
uh feeling pretty sturdy so I guess I'll switch over to what's going to become my
new trademark HTC1 comparison so that's what an otter booxed phone looks like
compared to a not OtterBox phone it's not the kind of thing that I would use
unless I had a reason to keep my phone super protected with all that said if
you put it in your pocket it's actually not going to look that much different
than your wallet in your pocket and you
know it's not like you can't get it out of your pocket and if you keep it in a purse this is a perfect thing to put on
your phone because you got your keys and all your other stuff in there I mean just just in case you drop it then you
know that you're going to have the confidence that it's going to be okay so
there's a rubber bumpers here hard plastic here there's quite a recessed
area between the actual SC so you'd have to drop it on something fairly textured
to actually manage to impact the screen so let's uh let's see what we can do to
this baby all right so uh how about that
tree you think I can hit that tree now watch this
drive wow oh it went all the way through to
the other side okay just a sec I missed the tree though I hope I
can find the phone what oh yeah right my mic's on
okay so hold on it bounced all the way through onto the street here so I'm just
going to retrieve it and uh okay it looks like we did a little bit of damage
what do you think do you think I can hit the light post or the light at the top
let's try Oh Oh wrong way
uhoh okay that might have been it for it well there you go folks I don't think I
recommend that let's see how the phone
did oh wow check this out come come come
come so that was probably a good 20 ft
up so the otter box opened it did not
actually stay closed so I guess if I was to find a design uh Improvement that
they can make it would be the plastic latches here cuz you can see the metal
ones held up just fine with that in mind
the oh diesel is texting apparently we have to go meet him now with that in
mind the phone has a scuff here see
right there there's a scuff that wasn't there before a couple scuffs here the
phone survived the screen did not scratch so okay let's go ahead and Chuck
it in the water I'm going to put it back in we'll be back in a moment all right so uh We've reassembled
it from the fall so there's some cracked pieces there so we're going to see if
the waterproofness held up from the 20ft
fall so to be clear guys this is designed for people not designed for
people who are trying to intentionally wreck the phone and uh the fact that the
phone survived at all being dropped out of what is essentially a second story
window uh should be pretty impressive so I'm going to throw it into the water and
try and hit that brick ready guys here we
go and it's down there now slick do you think you can reach that this may
actually be a problem okay hold on we're not going to leave it in there for 30
minutes one way or another just because we already know that uh the Integrity of
the otter box was compromised by the
Fall oh it's cold oh it's cold okay I
got
it okay so we chucked it at a brick under
the water so let's go ahead and oh it's
dirty oh okay so let's go ahead and open
her back back up and see if she leaked I mean realistically if they're
rating it for 30 minutes no no there we go look at that there's just drips
through from me opening it but the
actual oh hold on oh oh okay yeah she
ain't waterproof anymore never mind so we knew this was we sort of knew this
was going to happen let's see if the phone survived was down there for
probably a good 30 seconds anyway oh phone's on okay so there's Diesel's
message that we haven't gone and met up with him yet so um yeah we're going to
we're going to put it back in the otter box and we're going to kick it all the way back to where we're meeting with
diesel and see if the phone continues to survive wish us luck with that
okay and let's pick up here all right guys so let's see how our
uh impact torture test uh how the ugh
box held up so once again the metal side
is outstanding you can see that spacing
between the actual screen itself and the front bezel here paying off and you can
see these metal pieces actually contribute to the scrap proofness of the
device overall my only thing is I wish that
they put uh at least one on the other side or something like that you can see
this guy opened up during the impact but that's kind of to be expected that's for
waterproofness not for impact but these plastic ones did let go again however
you guys saw what we did to it that is not normal use and I think what we're
going to discover at least I hope what we're going to discover is that the
phone did survive and that to me is the
point of one of these cases not here you can see how how beat up this got on the
way over here the point of these cases is not whether the case looks beautiful
after some abuse but whether the phone inside actually still works there's
Diesel's message all right just like that there's
the phone itself which is actually not really any worse for the wear and uh I
give the OtterBox Armor Series a pass thank you for checking out this video
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