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We are unboxing Apple's leather iPhone while this is going to
be in California Poppy.
Now, this is really a great color here, but this is Apple's
MagSafe wallet that attaches to the back of your iPhone 12,
iPhone 12 mini iPhone Pro, 12 Pro Max.
And more specifically, I'm taking a look at whether or
not it's a suitable everyday carry replacement for the
Bellroy card sleeve.
They both come in at 60 bucks.
Let's get right to the unboxing.
This is the massive wall that attaches to the back of your
iPhone 12, iPhone 12, mini iPhone 12 pro Macs.
And you go ahead and carry your cards here.
Now, this is iPhone 12 pro, just for reference here.
Now, let's go and open this up.
And we see here, this is yeah, it's got that yellowish
brown color, which to me I am quite a fan of.
From my experience.
Apple really does make some fantastic leather products,
including obviously their leather cases,
the leather sleeves that they have for their iPads, even the
leather sleeves that you see for their Macs.
But this is probably to say that like the culmination or
maybe the pinnacle of their leather products.
So this is very soft, very supple.
It says it's all-natural leather.
Now, this leather was supposed to be shielded, meaning that if
you put your cards in here, it should not
demagnetize them.
Let's go and see what it looks like here on the iPhone
12 Pro.
Super strong magnets.
Now the phone recognizes that there's something being
attached to it.
That would be cool if it came up with a color like it does
for the cases, but it does not.
Now, this is pretty strong, I am shaking it pretty hard and
this is not coming off, if you do go ahead and slide it,
obviously it's going to come off.
You hear that noise coming, but this sound there quite,
quite thoroughly.
Let's see if we can go ahead and put in it.
I already have a slim wallet, but that's Slim Wallet is from
Belle Roy, and I probably had it for about five years now.
It's definitely had its run its course and it's very
well worn.
You could see that here.
In terms of size, this is a little bit smaller here.
This hold, I'd say about seven or eight cards hold a SIM card
ejector tool and it's got a little thing back here for I
would say cash.
Now obviously this is definitely bigger than,
than the Apple wallet or the Apple version of the wallet.
But I know I won't really get the same sleeve.
This is I would say this is more for maybe going out,
only going out with a certain number of cards.
I am not the type of person who is going to carry every single
card with me in the world.
I'm someone who's going to carry a few cards, maybe six,
maybe seven, depending on what I'm doing.
But then if I need something else, I'm usually
going to go ahead and have that at home and I would just switch
out the cards as I need to.
So I would say I'm more of a minimalist when it comes to
carrying the number of cards with me.
I don't carry my store cards or any of my frequent
flier cards.
All that stuff is kept with me or kept somewhere else.
Now, this has this little cutout or pass through here on
the back where you go and push up on your card and
it slides up.
Let's try that again here just to get an idea of the
level of difficulty.
Yeah.
So that's actually very easy if you're doing it this way.
And as you you use it as a unit, as you use it,
it's going to get a little bit more wear and tear and a little
bit more it's going to come across more easily.
Now, this is all soft-touch leather.
This feels actually really, really nice.
This stitching is actually quite nice.
This is all painted edge, which you could see here.
Now, what would happen is over time that this painted edge
would kind of wear down.
But if you're used to Apple's leather products, you're going
to see that they're I mean, there are other products wear
very well over time.
And this is really, really soft.
I wish I wish you could touch it because it's just
quite that soft.
Now, at the end of the day, the iPhone card's sleeve with
MagSafe is I'd say, you know, it's relatively the same price
at sixty bucks, much like the Bellroy card sleeve
is sixty dollars.
This is really, I think, designed for someone who is
looking for a simple way of carrying small amounts
of identification, credit cards, whatever the case
is with their iPhone, to minimize obviously
what they're carrying.
Now, like I said in the video, this is something where I would
have my credit card, maybe two credit cards and some ID in
here because there's a three card maxed with the cards
that I'm using.
And I would find ways to cycle through other cards that I
might need, but not necessarily on an everyday basis,
in another part of maybe my carry, whether it's my car
or whatever the case is now it's sixty dollars.
The iPhone MagSafe Wallet is I would say it's a reasonable buy
if you're looking for something that has no minimum amount of
cards that you'd be able to carry.
It has a good design, well-made,
the iPhone MagSafe wallet.
Obviously, if you have an iPhone two, that's going to
give you the most benefit.
From my perspective, the one thing that is missing or at
least is not available yet is the ability to go ahead and
track your wallet.
Apple does have a fine my service, and this does not
have the ability to go out and find it today, because that's
probably the most, I would say, simple use case.
If you have your phone, your wallet, you lose
your phone, your wallet or separated, you have no way
of tracking down your wallet.
But other than that.
Sixty bucks.
I like it.
I'm going to keep it.
It is going to go into my everyday carry all cycle
through it for a couple of months and see how it works.
But let me know what questions you have about this in
the comments below.
Now I am Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV.
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