between these two fully ruggedized waterproof drop proof from this one is
crashproof
cases the Incipio Atlas
defeats the OtterBox armor just by a little bit
but all in all we still wouldn't recommend these two cases
Real Usage. Real Reviews. Mobile Reviews - eh.ca
Hey It's Aaron from Mobile Reviews - eh.ca
and today we're going to do a comparison video
between the OtterBox armor and the Incipio Atlas
both Otterbox and Incipio say that these cases are waterproof and drop proof
the incipio atlas definitely is and we're not so sure
about the OtterBox armour
lot of people love this case but we didn't have any luck with the two
cases
that we purchased and did test with at mobile reviews - eh.ca
we do case reviews evident because you're watching this
but everyone of our reviews is based on actual usage so will spend several weeks
with these cases it will use them
and then we figure out what's good and what's bad Incipio Atlas scores a 3.4 Eh?'s out of 5
and the Otterbox armor we gave it a 2.9 Eh?'s out of 5
so these are kind of the two
cases that are a little lower on the spectrum of cases that you've reviewed
the last few months
in terms of design which we rate against the design the ease of installation and the
build quality of the
case the incipio atlas comes out on top
now with that being said the weight and bulk the Incipio house is nice
if you look up here now at the bottom here
you got this latch that adds a bit of bulk
to the phone and its a little annoying as you
the top feels really nice and added like this plastic diaper at the bottom
of this case and its
a little ugly in its when we get to the functionality it is not the easiest
thing
to pull apart in terms of the OtterBox armor
it is much better than the Incipio else and when you could probably call it up
big boy and while the case is that we
reviewed, in terms of installation the OtterBox armor has the latches and
they're pretty easy to get to as long as you don't
get your fingernail caught between the really thin metal pieces on the latches
but
once you get past the pain of having your fingernails come apart from you
fingertips you know getting the case apart is fairly easy
now the Incipio Atlis this is a painful cases take apart because Incipio with
instructions tell you to put your finger in this
tiny hole and then you get your finger in there and you just pull back as hard as you
possibly can
and we've installed and uninstalled this case so many times that we actually broke the
back in that case
so that's kind of a knock against the ease of installation as well as the build
quality which is the
next score in terms of design the build quality of the Incipio Atlas
well it takes drops fairly well so we did a round of skeet shooting with intent
known there's not a lot of scuffing and glass screen protectors is a nice touch
the OtterBox armor it doesn't take
you know beating as well we did drive over it with the car in the front
facing piece has a lot of scuffs to it on top of all the other drops that
we've done to it
now in terms of protection the OtterBox armor
didn't do very well and again we know a lot of people love this case and we
don't have a lot of
success with it our first case broke
we dropped from about three feet like it just we weren't even doing
drug test we were filming one of our rating videos and it just
broke
the water test it was its kinda hit miss sometimes is waterproof sometimes is not
we have been told you can
flip your o-ring inside out and stuff do all this other stuff that people are
saying that
Canadian Otterboxes aren't as good as US Otterboxes that we bought a fake case and
everything no
be bought from a big box store we bought it we've got two cases from two
different big box stores
and we kinda came to the same conclusion this thing is kinda wishy-washy
in terms of protection now the Incipio Atlas this thing is a
tank we did skeet shooting with it we tossed into a river
and you know the phone that was inside this case stayed
what we still use it every single day so all in all the protection of the Incipio Atlas
is pretty good what makes it even more awesome is that
this has a glass screen protector this plastic bin on a Otterbox Armor
does its job but nothing like tempered glass and Agata actually did
face down glass drop test with this case and you can definitely tell there's
a scuff there but the phone still works for the protection score we gave me in Incipio Atlas
4.7 Eh?'s out of 5 and that's a really high score so if you are looking for something
that's
very tough and can take a beating the Incipio Atlas is the case it get when
compared to
the OtterBox armor now when it comes to functionality in the OtterBox handles
just a little bit better when compared to the Incipio Atlas not too good
you know in the whole gamut have all the cases that we've reviewed but the
OtterBox better
OtterBox armor is a little bit better than the Incipio us
the really only redeeming feature about the OtterBox armor is that the screen
protector is really nice
it doesn't offer a lot of layer and it keeps fingerprint smudge into a minimum
which isn't this
which isn't the case for the in CPOs
pay glass screen protector pretty awesome but I think they forgot the
Greece repelling covering or coding for the class cuz
this is pretty great leeway in terms of accessing all the buttons and one not
the mute switch
kinda Jets ot quite a bit and it's not like soft plastic it's gotten really
sharp edges and so
if you were put this case with your phone inside your pocket and you
actually
you know scraped your skin against this me a fun
you may actually breaker Skinner create a scratch that Al Sharpton is
in terms of accessing you know your headphone jack in your lane per
connector
um the atlas has this wonderful plastic day for the call
all it's really a lax but I think it's more like a diaper in its
really difficult poll apartment
it seems to get easier over time but when we first got the case
get this latch of was really difficult and
again I'm not using my fingernails cuz I just cut them and so it
you know if I have to keep my fingernails long in order to get
to the will let in port connector I wouldn't buy this case
in terms of the usability 'em that insecure Atlas
we were we have a lot of difficulties in terms of
trying to figure out what worked and what didn't work the only thing that we
can tell you is that if you do get one
just be aware that your scream like that might not be as responsive as
it would be within and make a device we did this we did this video and it took
like
a take some you still inconclusive we couldn't figure out
how to install properly so between I i confide
by this that we had sometimes the control center so it works sometimes it
didn't so
again it was really hit and miss for us this case again the Incipio and the
score is better than that auto box
armored 3.4 this once 2.9
but again the very low rate cases when you look at some of the other cases
which
include the cattle the survivor
you've got the lifeproof review but like per unit and got a CD or vixen
all these these four cases actually score higher
then be in city wells and the OtterBox
armor and you know they all cost about the same
OtterBox there is actually fairly expensive weekend about 100 bucks
I know other people can go to the wedding get a really cheap but
we went to the big box store and we try to keep are process of buying all these
things
consistent so that we can tell you which is cheaper elections better
now we've got full review videos for the free and thus arrive catalyst still be
on this side
it's the same deal like proof noon in the CD or over called videos we on this
side
have any questions about these cases really please leave them in the comment
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answer them and get back to you as soon as we possibly can. if you ask us a
really awesome question we actually make make a video for its
the last question we asked me to tell you actually for these Lakers cases
as somebody and her thats these cases become not waterproof after five
openings and closings but that's really not case cuz we open up five times
but following don't be back in water and it worked
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