- So you get yourself a Surface Go
and you actually want to take it outdoors.
Well, you should probably pick yourself up a UAG case.
Specifically, the Metropolis.
It's brand new and today we're gonna give you a quick tour
and tell you if it's worth it or not.
Stay tuned.
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All right, here it is,
the Urban Armor Gear case for a Surface Go.
This is Metropolis.
They do actually have a more expensive one.
This one is 70 bucks or 69.
I do have to make a joke, though,
I don't know why there's a guy skateboarding.
I guess it's urban, skateboarding.
I don't know, using Surface Go,
he does have rockin' Vans on, though,
so that's pretty awesome.
But, yeah, pretty cool case, overall nice device.
So here it is, out of its package.
It's pretty simple, not much to it.
Really nice design on the back,
it's kind of like a hard rubber.
You do have the corner protection, though,
which is going to be really important for these devices.
As you all know when you drop a device,
it's when it hits those corners,
it's going to be the most delicate.
You do have a fully articulating stand, too.
It's a little weird, it has a rattle to it.
It's metal and it's kind of sharp.
If you wear shorts this is going to be actually painful.
But it's obviously meant to be used when you're outdoors
and put it on rocks or something like that,
so it does have, it snaps into position,
but it's a pretty nice design.
Turn around to the front here
and you just have the nice interior, nothing unique.
Now there is something cool I want to show you.
As you can see here we have these arrows
and this bottom piece actually snaps in or out
depending on if you want to use this
with the Surface type cover or not.
If you choose not to use the type cover
you can put this and it seals up the bottom
and it protects the connector for Surface Go
which is really important and gives you a nice flush design.
I really like that. I think it's cool.
If though, you do want to attach the cover to it,
you just pop this off and now you can put in the Surface Go.
Now what makes these cases so cool
is besides that really rugged corner protection
is you do have full access to your port,
so you can see for your Surface Connect Charger,
you also have USB Type C and a headphone jack
fully exposed which is really nice.
It also means this is not water resistant or waterproof,
it's merely just going to be drop test, right?
Now this is actually really interesting for the nerds,
if you notice on the left-hand side,
they actually have this blank spot here.
Now you may be wondering why there's nothing there.
If you remember, there's going to be an LTE version
of the Surface Go coming out and UAG probably
just wants to design this once.
I guarantee you that's where the SIM card goes.
Now turn to the top, you do have the power button
and volume rockers here and these are, of course,
pseudo-buttons, but they're really nicely designed.
Very grippy on the power button, it has protection, too,
so you don't accidentally turn it on.
Really good at depressing, though, I love the way
that this feels, it really works well.
Another cool feature is this pen holder,
so you can just snap in the Surface pen,
locks in there while you're carrying this
and it won't fall out.
Obviously, that supplants the magnetic connection
which won't work here, but really nice holder.
And if you've been watching this video
and wondering, why is there a little tag thing there?
Well, that's simple, that simply goes around there
in the corner and it prevents the cover from flopping open.
Not a super sophisticated design,
but it totally works and you can just move it
out of the way and you're good to go to open that cover up.
Alright, so I've been using this case now
for a little over a week and I really enjoy it.
It doesn't make the Surface Go that much bigger
because it's such a small device anyway to begin with.
Now it costs 70 dollars and that's pretty expensive
for a case but that's always been UAG.
They make a ton of these things for iPads,
they make them for all the Surface devices
and all sorts of tablets.
That's just their thing but let's also keep in mind,
besides for the consumer who may just go outside
and want to go camping and take their Surface Go with them,
the important thing about this case
is it's going to be for business and enterprise.
If you work on a factory floor
and your boss gave you a Surface Go,
they're probably going to put it into a case,
especially if you have machinery working around you.
Well, this is that kind of device for that,
it works perfectly with Surface Go.
I should also point out, another use case
a lot of people don't think of,
while it's nice to have a keyboard with the Surface Go,
if you are walking around, having a keyboard
on a tablet like this doesn't really do you much.
That's why there's a pen, that's why there's pen support
so you can actually hold the Surface Go
in your hand like a notebook and take notes
and check off things.
Again, if you're working on a factory floor,
this is going to be your device.
You're not going to actually need the keyboard.
Now having said that, for those military drop test
that they use, this thing does have approval
for that drop test.
It only includes that cover, so technically
if you drop this without the keyboard cover on there
you may not get as much protection, just keep that in mind.
Obviously it's still better than nothing.
The other thing about those drop tests
is technically they're only rated to be dropped
on plywood floors, which probably doesn't happen very often.
Not necessarily cement.
Again, this will work better than nothing,
but just keep in mind this is not going to
make your device indestructible, but combined
with your type cover, it should offer
quite a bit of protection.
Overall, I think the UAG case is great.
They've always made really solid products.
It looks really nice.
It has a lot of functionality.
You get all your ports, the speakers are fully exposed.
Overall, just a really excellent design.
But, only get it if you need it,
otherwise you can save yourself some money
and just get yourself a basic case
if you don't need this much protection.
So there's a quick review
of the Urban Armor Gear case for the Surface Go.
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