Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the WaterField design
Airpods Max shield case this is a case that was designed to sort of answer the complaints
that many have with the airpods max not being a protective case that actually is included with it
so this case is kind of laughable by many some people do like it but this is in response to that
and waterfield design which has been making cases and bags for years decided to come up with this
now they've been nice enough to send this along and this is how it came packaged
this is not a sponsored video and it just came like this in a fedex box so no extra packaging
just like that in a fedex box and let's go ahead and take a look at it so take this out here
and this is the case itself and then on the back we have it looks like just a photo of their crew i
don't know if there's only three of them but it is a smaller company and then on the back it says you
appreciate quality we appreciate you and it's just thanking us for choosing water field design so
we'll set that aside and of course i'll link this in the description but this case again
was designed to replace the airpods max case or use it with it now this is made of leather but
there's four different color options so this is the chocolate leather with waxed canvas
there's also black leather with black ballistic blue leather and black ballistic
and crimson leather and black ballistic it comes in at 99 so it's not an inexpensive case
but it's made in san francisco and it's made of high quality leather and they've made some
great products in the past i still have some of them they hold up really well so on the outside
this is leather and then it looks like we've got the canvas here on the side and some waterproof
zippers and then on the back we have a mesh and it looks like yep it's elastic so it's stretchy
so you could put some extra things here and then we have a little strap on the top to hold on to it
so let's go ahead and open this and i guess we could store some extra things in here whether
that be i guess extra cables if you need to you could store your usbc to lightning cable
like this one maybe just put it in here store it there if you wanted to let's go ahead and
open it up now a nice detail on the outside it says water field made in san francisco so let's
go ahead and open this up we've got dual zippers here and these zippers feel like they're metal
but let's go ahead and open it up and inside we have a super soft lining so
this feels well according to them it's as soft as cashmere what it is i'm not sure it's probably a
synthetic material but it's super soft as you can see here almost velvety so inside we have
this protective cover and this is actually padded so there's some padding or cushioning in there and
then we have a couple different things going on here so the first thing is they designed
this so that you could keep the case from the airpods max on if you'd like so maybe you want
to keep it in that case and carry it like this you can do that so just seal it up like this
and it works just fine it was designed to do this you're good to go if you want to use that
case now however there's no reason to actually use this case because they've thought about this
and included the magnets that actually put the air pods max into low power mode so for those of
you that may not know there's actually magnets as you can see here with magnet paper but what
we have inside here is magnets on this inside edge of the airpods max case that actually tell the air
pods max to go into low power mode so you can kind of see it there there's a magnet there and what it
does is tells these to go into low power mode use less power you can see there's a blinking light
here and all we do is fold these up put these down like this and the light shuts off so you
know it's in low power mode so it puts it in low power mode like that and it protects the air pods
max now they've also come up with a little pocket inside to store the power plug so if you have an
18 or 20 watt adapter it will fit just fine stick it in here like this you've got a little piece of
velcro and it holds it in place you probably could fit another cable in here as well so
there's plenty of room there and it's nice and protective now if we close it like this you'll see
it looks nice now of course this is a little bit of a bulky case and the reason is
apple did not design the airpods max to actually be folded up so you're going to have to use a case
of this size to actually house them so either way you're not adding a ton of bulk but you are adding
a ton of protection to them now for those of you that are still considering airpods max i want to
give you a quick size comparison here is a 13-inch macbook pro this is the newer m1 macbook pro
but they're all the same size since about 2016. so this is the size of the the case compared
to the macbook pro you'll see it's definitely much thicker but it's the case on top of it if
we take the airpods max outside they're not that much smaller so if we take these out of the case
you'll see that the airpods max are still very large compared to the macbook pro so either way
you're getting some protection that you wouldn't otherwise get with the apple case you've got
protection storage for the different accessories you need to power them and storage for a few other
accessories maybe some cables maybe extra chargers and things as well so just want to give you that
quick size comparison as well since you may have not seen these in person and this case is like
i said it's fairly large but gives you an idea of its overall size so it's super nice and the smell
from this leather is is really nice as well it's a nice thick layer leather with nice stitching on
the outside edge so that's nice and then again your air pods max inside so i've really liked
their cases for many years i've supported them for many years because i think they have high quality
products and i like that it's made in the united states as well so it holds the airpods max just
fine no problems whatsoever and of course it keeps them protected so there's not much more to say
about this case other than then it works really well i'm glad they put those magnets in there
and it definitely will be a nice addition to using the airpods max because i'm not a big fan of this
included case from apple i don't really understand why they want this i know they want this route
maybe because it's portable i'm not sure but there's also one more thing with this case that
i think they thought out really well is because it has dual zippers you can actually charge it while
it's in the case so all you need to do is plug in your air pods max like this just plug it in here
and then we can zip this along the outside edge so just comes around
like this and now you can charge your airpods max while they're in the case so
it's a nicely well thought out case really nice case quality materials and definitely i recommend
it now there may be some others out there i haven't seen but so far this is the first one i
think that's been really responsive to customers apparently they've had over a thousand people
sort of say that they would want this and it looks like they've been sold out at least in
december and they're shipping batches from january so it should be available hopefully in the future
but it looks like it may even be sold out until february but this is a high quality case i highly
recommend it and definitely you should check it out now if you'd like to get your hands on a new
wallpaper i'll link it in the description i always like to include one of those in my videos so i'll
link this wallpaper like i normally would and of course i'll link to them in the description below
so you can check out this case and there are other bags too they have a lot of really nice products
so let me know what you think about this case what color airpods max did you end up picking
up if you did get them or what headphones are you using with your iphone or other phone let me know
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