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Hi its Aaron from Mobile Reviews - eh.ca
and today we've got a top tough best case buyers guide
and we're gonna talk about these cases we've got Otterbox armor and
Incipio Atlas
Otterbox Defender, lunatik taktik extreme
Griffin survivor and the Pelican CE 1180
andl all these cases for the toughest case we give that award to the
lunatik taktik extreme
so I'm gonna go out on a limb and see if the iPhone is a pretty big part of your life
and it's also this perfectly molded
piece of glass and aluminum and rare earth elements it
it's beautiful what are you going to do to protect this so it doesn't break
well we've got six cases that are definitely tough enough
so at Mobile Reviews Eh.ca our reviews are based on real usage and when we mean
real usage
we mean we go get cases and we use 'em and this is just a fraction all the
cases that we've used basically
every case then I'm holding in my hands is droppable
ands we've done drop test for them and most these cases offer a level of water
resistant and waterproof and we've done those tests with actual devices so
really we try to break our devices with these cases
so that you don't have to and as I said before the lunatik taktik extreme this
is
in our opinion the tough this case out of this entire grouping
so the first thing we'll look at is the protection that each case provides your
device now
from our opinion being the tough this case doesn't necessarily mean that it
needs to be waterproof now
we've got a couple cases in our grouping that is waterproof like the Incipio
Atlas
and the OtterBox armor but the toughest case in our opinion is if you were to
smash it against concrete
with your phones right so the first thing we'll talk about is the drop
protection and again
lunatik taktik extreme most probable case we feel very comfortable
dropping this case many many times against concrete we've actually toss it
up into the air
I think it may be about 10 to 12 feet and then I fell on concrete
phone still works we dressed up as Batman threw this for like a batarang
against a brick wall
well because it looks like a phone that Batman would use and phone still
survives
have a lunatik taktik extreme is a piece of the case especially when compared to
the runner-up in terms of drop protection which is the Incipio Atlas
and as you can tell the lunatik taktik extreme is much larger
then the Incipio Atlas now the Incipio Alice it's a very slim
very tough case and one of the odd things is that it's got this plastic
diaper at the bottom
and it covers up the lightning port connector in the headphone jack but it's
pretty painful to takeoff
now for the drop protection we did a round the skeet shooting with it and we
dropped it on its face to see how tough the
tempered glass screen protector is and well we still got a phone
now it's important to note that these two cases have glass screen protectors
and that's unique among the two dozen cases that we do have
their lunatik taktik extreme has a gorilla glass screen protector while the
Incipio Alice has a
a tempered glass screen protector now the third case that we would recommend
in terms a drop protection is the Pelican vault CE1180 for this case
we skipped it like a rock
like we would in a lake points in the lake we used a gravel parking lot and
the phone survives what the neat thing about the Pelican cases is that
it
has a lifetime warranty on all their external cases
that's pretty cool thing to take note of now these are three cases that
definitely protect your phone from drops
the one that we would not spread her phone in is the OtterBox armor now
people who have the OtterBox armor in have an OtterBox armor that works
they love this case but we could definitely tell you from all the other
tests that there are much better alternatives
to this case our first case broke during a non drop test just
the case and a phone drop and it broke and so we took a back
got another one from a different big box store we did a water test with that one
that one sucked in water like nobody's business so we don't think very highly
of the OtterBox
armor so it's the worst performing case out of our grouping
terms of functionality which deals with your ability to access your phone
inside the
case the lunatik taktik extreme comes out on top
lunatik taktik extreme takes pride in the design and it definitely shows
you can easily access all your buttons you can access easily access the screen
especially through the glass screen protector the glass screen
protector
doesn't add any glare and it feels like you're just using a regular iPhone
screen
the sound that comes from the phone listening to phone calls and whatnot
the sound is not degraded in this case which is really nice given the amount of
protection
but the one thing it doesn't allow you to do is to use the touch ID sensor
in the new iPhone 5s now the case the runner-up
in terms of functionality is the Otterbox Defender and this is a very
droppable case
and it's got a hole in the screen protector that allows you to use the
touch ID
fingerprint sensor in your iPhone 5s so if you're looking for tough case
that is droppable and you want to use the a fingerprint sensor
the Otterbox Defender is a great case to you know
do that with the worst-performing case in this entire grouping is the Incipio
Atlas now the Incipio
Atlas has this plastic diaper at the bottom the covers up the headphone jack
as well as the lightning port connector
and its not the easiest case to get apart
it does get better over time but we'll use this we've taken this case apart
so many times that
as you can tell it's still not the easiest thing to pull apart so
if charging your phone is important to you this plastic dipper makes it very
difficult
to do that other things to take notice that the plastic button for that covers
the mute switch is
just so quite a bit and it's pretty sharp and so it's
well as scratch your skin if you're not careful and then the screen sensitivity
we've been popping in a iPhone 5S
and iPhone 5 outta this case a buncha times actually this video that
took like 8 takes and we could not come to any conclusion why
certain installations would work well with the swipe gestures
of the you know command center for iOS7 and why other ones would it was really
frustrating so
functionality is pretty bad with the Incipio Atlas from our tests
the PelicanCE1180 you can access all the buttons or not but the screen
protector the comes with this case the fuses the Retina screen so makes
everything look kinda Pixley so if
the clarity on your skin is very important to you I wouldn't go Pelican CE1180
in terms of design there isn't one case that stands out
against the rest we still do prefer the lunatik taktik extreme because if it's
incredible
build quality but in terms of the way in both these are all very big cases and
the biggest habeas ones are the Griffin survivor the OtterBox
armour and lunatik taktik extreme these one
these cases are so big that well you definitely should try to use them in a
suit jacket cuz you're gonna look ridiculous
in terms of the ease of installation the easiest for his actually the OtterBox
armor
if you have been cut your fingernails because trying to get your finger
into these really thin latches well you might hurt yourself
there's two cases that require screws and we don't like cases with screws and
they are the
when the lunatik taktik extreme and the pelican CE 1180
the Incipio Atlas is the worst case to install
it is incredibly painful and you know it is a very
tough protective case and that's why all the pieces have no give to it
but the tell you to put your finger into this hole and atopy pullback as hard as
you possibly can
all this whole release isn't a whole it's just like this little plastic
sliver
the epic shove your fingertip into and then you have to pull back as hard as
you can so
there's a potential that you might pull your fingertip away from the fingernail
which
hurts and so the last two cases that I haven't talked much about us Griffin
survivor in the Otterbox Defender and installations quite easy
as you just end up packing plastic robbery parts into
hard polycarbonate body pieces so you know pretty easy to install
terms a build quality the lunatik taktik extreme comes out on top
this case and the Otterbox Defender comes in a close second
again these two cases are the most functional of the grouping
and so well they also what the best and feel the best
in terms of price lunatik taktik extreme is the most expensive kisses 125 bucks
on their website
it goes on sale quite often so he get it for about ninety nine
me send us a message we've got a discount code for you so you know you
can text her cell phone and some lunatic swag
the cheapest case in the grouping is the Griffin survivor and so if you're
looking for
great protection and decent functionality this is a fifty dollar k
sold more than half the amount
the lunatik taktik extreme the two cases that are fairly expensive that artwork
while to purchase
are the Incipio Atlas and the OtterBox armor these cases run between
80 to a hundred dollars and so well the you
should spend that money on these cases rather than these two because these two
we feel don'ts
aren't worth the money or the trouble so can thelunatik taktik extreme
is our most favoured top tough best iPhone case if you got a hundred twenty-five dollars to
spend your gonna get a great case that is trouble
he offers a decent level water resistance not waterproof miss
it allows you to access all the functions on your phone ends it looks
and feels great
the runner-up would be the are boxed offender
drops very well in the bill call it is very high and it allows you to use the
touch
ID functionality the fingerprint sensor the new iPhone 5s
the Pelican CE 1180 is a looking for something different this is
not a lot of people know the Pelican makes these cases they make lots of
other things so
this a very unique case and it does come with a lifetime warranty
and if you're a budget conscience a
case buyer the Griffin survivor is a good bet because this is here
50 bucks and offers a decent amount of drug protection and it definitely will
keep your phone safe
we would definitely recommend that you stay away from the Otterbox Armor and the
Incipio Atlas
we know the Incipio Atlas has won a bunch a role awards stuff but based on
our extended uses this is a pretty painful case to use when compared to
all these other cases both these cases are fairly expensive and the OtterBox
armor
well people love it I know but we didn't have any luck with it so it
it's our lowest rated case so far so if this buyer's guide was helpful to you please
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