Minisuit Phone Mount & Phone Cases Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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to learn more. Welcome to my unboxing and overview of some cool stuff we got
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from minissuit.com. So, you can check them out in the video description.
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Basically, we needed some cases because I don't know if you guys follow me on
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Twitter or not, but this is a case for the HTC1, which I desperately need. I
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recently dropped it again and scratched
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it pretty good. So, it comes with a little pink like bullet, which probably
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has some sort of utility. There's a rubber thing on the top here that I'm
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sure does something, but I'm not going to worry too much about that. Anyway,
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uh, it also comes with a screen protector as well as a microfiber cloth
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for cleaning off the screen before you apply it. And it comes with the case
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itself. So, I'm not going to worry too much about the screen protector cuz I use liquid armor. But other than that,
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there we go. My one is now more
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protected and it looks a little something like that. Pretty snug fit
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actually. It's not bad. And it's obviously not going to protect it from
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any kind of like, you know, 20ft falls or anything like that, but still gives
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you easy access to the ports you need as well as Yeah. See, it doesn't restrict
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being able to plug anything into the 3 and 1/2 mil as well as the volume
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control. And there you go. Nice and low profile. One of the things I don't like
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about cases is that a lot of the time they're very bulky. and you know, you
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buy this slim phone and then you put a huge case on it. It's like, what was the point of that? So, it's got a bit of a
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soft touch, grippy feel to the back of it. This was the one I picked. Slick
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picked a different case for his Galaxy S3. So, he picked their uh case for
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Samsung Galaxy S3 S393.
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So, this one right here is like a more
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professional style looking case. So, you
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clip the S3 in here. It's got a spot for your flash as well as your camera and I
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I don't know. It's probably a speaker or something. Can't remember. I've never
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actually done an overview of the S3 in anyway. So, this goes in like this. It's
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got a little hinge right here and then closes over the S3 just like that.
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There's a little got a little mini suit logo on it. Does add a little bit more
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bulk than mine. So you can see mine's a lot slimmer, but includes a protective
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screen cover and gives you the option to set up your phone like that if you want
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to view it. And I think yeah, there's just uh one angle there for that. So
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there you go. That was the one Slick picked. And then I actually don't have
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my wife's phone on me, but she picked one that was very similar to mine anyway
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for her Droid DNA. So this one's very similar to the one except instead of a
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hard plastic case, it's more of a rubberized case. So, same thing,
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minisuit branding, and that's pretty much it. Without having the phone there
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to show you that one, I don't really have too many options. Other things that
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I picked up are the Design Craft
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Angrymon smartphone, analog woofer, and
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cradle. So, there's a few different ways you can put your phone in it. So, number
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one is woofer mode. So, the idea is that
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your speaker, depending on where it's positioned, would be somehow enhanced by
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putting it in like this. Number two is cradle. So, this will allow you to have
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it sit there and sort of notify you if anything comes up. And last but not
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least, you can use it for storage. So, they've got the idea being here that you can throw like a thumb tack and a paper
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clip inside and that will be handy. So,
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basically, I grabbed one of these so that I'd have something that I could put products on to show them off, as well as
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something to sort of chuck my phone on so that I can see notifications when
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they're incoming. And that is pretty much it for that. Pretty
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straightforward. So, the bottom has little rubberized feet on it. It's
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actually got kind of a a siliconey type
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build to it, so it's quite flexible. And there you have it. That's pretty much it
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for that one. And then this one, this is the one that I think is actually
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probably the coolest thing. This is the My Vizu or Mi Vizu or whatever you want
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to call it. M I V IZ U universal car mount system. Compatible cradle for all
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types of handheld devices between 4 to 9 cm in width such as mobile phones,
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smartphones, PDAs, mini GPS, and MP3, MP4 devices. So, this guy right here is
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a universal mount for your car. And I've run into the challenge lately of wanting
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to use my phone for GPS and having it be illegal to hold it because I live in BC
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and the law has recently been changed. So, you're not really allowed to touch it. So, you have to find a way to mount
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it without doing that. So, something like this looks like the solution. We're going to go ahead and mount this. We'll
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be back in a moment. It is so friaking hot in this car. So, we're going to try
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and do this pretty quickly. We're going to start with the air vent mount. So,
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this one right here goes basically like
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that. You attach it to It looked like it worked best to me when you hook it on to
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the top vent. So, there you go. That secures into place. And then this bottom
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one can be used to adjust the angle. So, you kind of put that wherever you want
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it to go. And then you take the ah the
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cradle here and you just press these two buttons. This is kind of cool. I like
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this. It's all space age and junk. Uh anyway,
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I I know I know they all work like this. Anyway, so there's uh rubber pieces here
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that hold the phone into place. So, they've got a bit of a of a lipped shape
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to them. See that? And so that it shouldn't slip out once it's actually
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secured into place there. Then you just take that and put it on there.
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All right. So, that, my friends, is the
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universal air vent one, which has the added benefit of cooling your phone when
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it Oh my goodness, I'm like sweating here. When it's hot like this. All
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right. So, the next one here is adjustable in a number of different ways. So, you can undo this guy right
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here. spin this around so that this can point in any direction you want. Then
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you can also twist it in any direction you want. Secure it where exactly you
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want it to be. Then all you got to do is take this.
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Okay. So the release, open it up like that and you can stick that oh, I don't
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know, to your dash or to your window. So say for example, if you wanted to keep a
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phone in the very top sort of right hand corner of your windshield, then you
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could adjust this guy right here. Adjust
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this guy right here. lock her into place. This is now secured. And then you
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can use that to release it. Then you just pull that off there and put that on
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there. If I can line it up, that'll help. There
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we go. And then from there, actually, probably I wouldn't use this mount to
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mount it vertically. I'd probably use it to mount it horizontally. It helps if
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you turn it around the right way. Anyway, there we go. And then you could
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use it for your GPS or whatever else you want to use it for. So, it clips into
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place. Doesn't move.
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Oh, let's see if my bike gets hit. Here we go. Here we go. Dash cam. Dash cam. Dash cam.
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Nope. So, here's a line. How to get a uh a traffic violation ticket instantly
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tip. There you go. That's how you actually affix it to things. So, you can
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see that's actually on there pretty good on the windscreen of my bike. The bike
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itself is actually moving pretty good.
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And that's uh that hasn't come off yet. So then we can take our our joint right
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here and that we'd have to be smoking if we were actually going to attach a phone
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to the front of our bike like this. And uh there you have it. So, in theory,
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which I do not recommend doing because in addition to getting a ticket, it
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also, particularly if you're in a riding posture down here, kind of pretty much
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destroys any any visibility that you might have had in front of yourself,
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which is the direction that motorbikes move. Um,
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yeah, in theory, this this could work, but please don't do this. I just wanted
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to find out if it would even mount to the because it's quite a curved screen
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here, but you can see it's quite securely mounted. See, we could look
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over here. See?
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