these days disinfectant wipes are almost as valuable as gold and really if you're
looking to clean off your smartphone which you should be doing especially when you're
going out into the world and then coming back to your house disinfectant wipes are one of the
only options that people think of however there are many reasons that you should not use these
on your phone one they are wet and if you don't have a waterproof phone then you run the risk
of damaging your phone another thing is if you don't have a screen protector on your phone you
risk wearing off the oleophobic coating that is on your screen so what are you to do if you want
to clean your phone enter the phone soap go hello i'm wanderer001 and this is my review of
the phone soap go this is a uvc light box for killing germs and bacteria now according to
phone soaps go website you will be killing 99.99 of germs just like those disinfectant wipes now i
will say i have been looking at devices like this for a long time but never got around to actually
getting one well in the year 2020 it felt like a great year to just take that extra precaution
to see if this would actually help kill bacteria and and stuff on my phone because well you just
don't want that on your phone one of the main things that i came across when researching phone
soap in particular is the track record or how long they've been around there are a lot of other
companies coming out with things kind of like this or wands a lot of those people are coming around
just to take advantage of the current market that we're in phone soap has been around since 2012
when they were running a kickstarter for their original phone soap and then for those of you who
follow shark tank in 2015 they were on shark tank so you know that this has been around for a while
and that it has a good track record and they're not trying to take advantage of the pandemic with
that being said the box itself is not a lot to look at at the top here you've got four little led
indicator lights and a lightning bolt this is how you actually actuate the device now you don't have
to press on the lightning bolt to get it to work you just simply tap it and that lets you know that
blue light means that that the uvc lights inside are actually on tap it again and it turns off the
lights inside you can see at the top there those are still lit because well if you want to find out
how much battery is left in this because that is the main thing with the phone soap go is it is a
portable uvc lay unlike their other products that plug right in and have to remain plugged in
this is meant for travel now in my case i got it because well yes it's nice if it can travel but
i also have to worry about a cable my thing with this is because it's battery operated i can put it
wherever i want and then just move it to charge it and then put it back to where i want so i'm
not limited by an electrical outlet which might be something you would be considering now we're
going to skip the external dimensions only because the important part that you care about is actually
the inside how big is this and will it fit my phone and i can't blame you because that's the
important part well you're looking at 6.8 inches in length with a width of 3.74 inches with a
depth of 0.78 so in my case my pixel 2
i can place it right in there and it closes just fine so those internal dimensions will
be important to you to figure out if this will fit your phone now as i stated before you have
two uvc lights one on top on the bottom and it is reflective so that's how you get
full coverage that's the other thing if you're going to be using disinfectant wipes on your phone
you really gotta cover the phone and it just it becomes a sloppy mess uh so for me personally when
i was researching this i did not know and i'm just letting you know just in case there actually is
a piece of glass on both the top and bottom so you're not actually resting your phone directly
on the lights that was one of my big concerns like how does that possibly work will phones hit these
plastic things and then no there's a piece of glass here and a piece of glass at the top you'll
also notice that there is a cutout over here well that is because you can charge a phone while
in the box so there actually is a cutout here on the side which you can have your phone
in the box getting sanitized and still charge it whether that be using a power brick which i have a
bunch of power bricks over there or the phone soap go can charge your phone for you the phone soap
go has a 6500 milliamp battery which can for most phones unless you have like was really big phones
uh we'll get about four charges based on the company's website and you will get 45 sanitation
cycles with the battery at full charge now i did test and see how many cycles i could get i got 44
ish so it's really close to what they said i'm not going to actually charge my phone off of this but
i wanted to see how many cycles i could get off of a full battery now when that battery is fully
depleted it does take four and a half hours to charge with the included cable and i do appreciate
that they they label it as the phone soap go cable i thought i would have to label it so here you
got you have your power connector right there and your usb now we'll take advantage of this to close
the phone soap go and spin around to talk about the back so the back here you have your output
for charging a cell phone that is being sanitized you have a usb c input output however it really
just seems like it is an output it does not seem like it's an input i could not get it to actually
input power and then here you have your power input my small complaint about the power input
is that the board that it sits on itself when plugging in the cable it does not sit
super snug so it kind of wiggles around a little bit there it's a small consideration the other
consideration is output of the usb and the usb c because if you're going to use this to charge
you want to know how well these actually work so if you're using the usb you're going to get 4.7
volts out or 1.40 amps if you're using usbc you're going to get slightly better i will flash some
information up on the screen here so you can make an informed decision on yourself again i did not
primarily get this so that i can charge devices i wanted to get it to sanitize my devices so what
we're going to do now is we're going to flip it to the front here because there's nothing really
to look at on the front or the sides the side where the cable sticks out if we tap it so that
it turns on i can't really see with the camera but if you're in a dark room that little rubber
flap there you can kind of see turns blue for me i wanted to make sure that this actually did work
when it was shut so here you can see i actually took an endoscope and i ran it into the device
and turned it on so you can see the lights are on you can kind of see what it looks like in there
while your phone is getting a suntan which is the best way that i can describe this so when my wife
and i come home from work we throw our phones in here it takes a 10-minute cycle to fully clean
your device that you put in here and then you can take it out if you happen to open the foam soap
go while it is in a cycle do not worry because uvc light is very dangerous to eyes and human skin if
you tap it to start and open it it actually turns off right away so here you can see a demonstration
of that with the endoscope in there so you won't have to worry about small hands opening this up
and hurting themselves which is very important coming across to the bottom here you will notice
that there are a lot of cutouts these cutouts are actually so that you can hear notifications
if your phone is in here cooking or sun tanning so here's an audio demonstration of random music that
i had playing on my phone put it in the device and you'll be able to hear how well it sounds
now the bottom is also where i have another small grape there are little rubber footies to help keep
it in place i do wish that these were a little more substantial because if it is on a surface
and you're trying to open this one-handed because there is a magnet here and on the top it it can't
really be done one-handed i would really like it if i could just open that one-handed instead of
you know having to juggle my phone and then put in that again i realize that it is a small small
concern with something like this but just data point for you to consider normally i would do more
extensive testing where i would do actual culture tests on my phone and present the information for
you here but considering it is 2020 and i am not taking that kind of chance up in the right hand
corner there you will see a playlist of other videos that i found going as far back as five
years that we're doing culture tests on phone using phone soap to demonstrate that it actually
did kill bacteria and germs which is again the main reason that you are getting this you are
getting this to clean your phone i know the the name phone soap just sounds like a really weird
connotation to be a uvc killing light box i'm not gonna go into the science behind the uvc killing
if you want to find the science behind that you can go to their website think of this more of a
technical demonstration so that if you decide that uvc killing lightbox is what you're looking for
and phone soap is what you were considering these are the technical side of things that you can look
at with this type of box and then over in the corner like i said the scientific demonstration
of if it will actually kill bacteria and lo and behold it does so that's why i ended up
picking up one there are some things that i wish phone soap did a little differently like i wish
that these lights here were a countdown timer while my phone was in here getting its sun bath
uh this way you know i could look over and be like oh it's got this much time to because
sometimes i just throw it in there and i forget so especially at the end when it was at 44 ish
uh cycle it i didn't realize that it was ending sooner than it should have and if those dots up
there were like a count on time it would have helped me know that it didn't get a full cycle
so the big question how much does a phone soap go cost well it's it's a hundred dollars they seem to
keep most of their uv sanitation boxes about the same price however phone soap go also comes with a
kind of soft shell carrying case so if you wanted to take this along with you you can pop it in here
and you'll be good to go i do wish that since it is a proprietary charging cable that does not come
with a wall wart so you will have to provide your own i do wish that the carrying case did have a
little place that you could put that aside from those little gripes again in the current world
that we're living in you really should consider something like this as i stated before i got
this one not because i'm traveling right now but because i wanted to have the ability to put this
where i wanted hopefully you found the technical demonstration and display of phone soap go helpful
in some way shape or form in helping you make an informed purchasing decision with that being
said i have been wanderer001 if you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave
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