if you're looking for case that dropable provides decent level water
resistance
and keeps dust out generally go with the Pelican CE1180
if you're looking for waterproof case that is dropable as well
um go somewhere else don't get the OtterBox armor
Real Reviews. Real Usage.
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 Pelican vault CE 1180
it's a very long name for the Pelican vault CE1180 you think they can make
the Pelican vault CE1180 name little less
complex in you know little easier to say like the OtterBox armor
now at Mobile Reviews - eh.ca
we base our reviews on real usage in real usage to us means we use it at least
four
you know one to three weeks to make sure that we really get to know the case
and then we'll go do stupid things to the case like the pelican case we
skipped like a rock
a across a gravel parking lot and the OtterBox Armor we drove over it with the
car we tried to do drop tests and the water tests and this is actually our
second
OtterBox armor case and well
drug test failed in a non drop test environment we just dropped in the case
broke
and then the waterproof test suite dipped in some water and water when in
so we can actually put your phone into it so
this is our second case we bought it from a big box store so we know it's not
one of those fake ones and everybody loves this case will you will you doing
your test is wrong this is the greatest case on earth
well guess what geniuses we review lots of cases
and most of them are better then the OtterBox armor
so with that little outburst out of the way are
our Eh? rating scale we gave this one 3.7Eh?'s out of 5
in this one measly 2.9 Eh's out of 5
it doesn't do very well this is actually our lowest rated cases
are you surprised in terms a design
at the weight and bulk well as you can tell the pelican case is much thinner than
this
the OtterBox armour in terms of installation this thing has latches
and these latches have very well
a thin edges for you to get your finger into into and sometimes your
finger if you've just recently cut your fingernails you make
get into thats weird spot where you start peeling your fingernail
from your finger really hurts and so these latches
aren't the greatest thing but they are better than
using a little screwdriver to install screws on your Pelican CE 1180
screws I hate score whose in terms of the build quality which is the last
score
in the design category the Pelican CE1180 so
top like way out on top well so because the outer shell the Pelican CE1180
case is backed by that warranty that all
Pelican cases come with and so it our interpretation of the cases if this case
breaks
Pelican will replace a free it's a lifetime warranty
for this product now in terms of the OtterBox armor this thing sucks
in scratches like nobody's business mind you we did drive a car over and so some
other that could be attributed to the car but all the scrapes and bumps that we
put it through kind of scuffed up to the front of the case as along the
edges and so based on that we believe that the build quality isn't as good an
to fit up the back panel is actually not that great
right there's all these gaps between and they're not
the same distance across the entire case and so that actually gets annoying
because if your finger gets caught in it well you're gonna split your fingernail
and that kinda sucks in terms of protection the Pelican vault CE1180
scores very well
relative to the OtterBox armor even though this case is dropable
waterproofing crushable it failed two out of three
tests and so that's why the scores so low, this case
we skip to like a rock in a parking lot go to annotations for videos for that
this one of the coolest thing we did with us well as we drove over it with a
car with an actual phone in it
so phone survived so this case is crushable
up to I think 25 or three thousand pounds which is pretty cool
Otterbox Armor is suppose to be waterproof well we have water going into the
cavity of the case we were doing the water tests we didn't actually
try it we tried it a few times I feel that every single time
the Pelican vault CE1180 is NOT waterproof but it does
offer a higher level water resistant than a lot of the other cases
mostly that's because the screen protector can has this foam liner on the
outside to the screen protector in that can absorb some of the moisture so
it can't take a full submersion like other waterproof cases care but it could
definitely stay in the rain for
a couple hours from our guests in from our usage it on the screen protection
both these cases have plastic screen protectors and
here they do the job now in terms of functionality both these cases are
pretty much
equal that's not saying much considering they are only scored about 3.7 Eh?'s
for that category in terms of getting to all the buttons in one
night and all that ports and whatnot
Pelican CE1180 beats out the OtterBox Armor
opening up the latches to get here lightning port connectors is pretty easy
again same with the headphone jack plastic nubs
easy get at where as on the Otterbox you have these gigantic
brightly-colored latches and so it's tough
awful to pry them open one up but for the headphone jack
I did notice that when I plug my headphones in this latch actually pushes
on the headphone jack so I'm not quite sure how well that
or if that's any useful or not even use with that and good for your headphone
jack in your pair of headphones
now these buttons the mute ringer switches is a little tougher to toggle whereas in on
the pelican CE1180 case it's just nice
well it's actually it's actually pretty cool it's this not that you just turned
to
activate the new ringer switch so again access to all the
buttons on the ports the pelican CE1180 case now the best part of the OtterBox cases
actually the screen protector you don't it's very responsive you don't do a lot of
double taps
now the one thing about the Pelican screen protector is that it diffuses
the retina screen of the iPhone
so you're incredibly sharp looking iPhone is gonna look very Pixley
underneath the
screen protector at the Pelican Vault CE 1180 so again
the Pelican case scores 3.7 Eh's were are the
Otterbox armor scores 2.9 and so
people so a lot of people like this case we don't have a lot of success with
and we bought it from
two different big box stores so we're pretty confident that its an actual
OtterBox products
so if you're looking for other cases you're looking for more options cases
that are similar to the votes
the lunatik taktik extreme and the Otterbox Defender
we've got the relevant videos on this side
video if you're looking for a alternative to the OtterBox armor we do
have reviews for the lifeproof nude
the Incipio Atlis and the Griffin survivor + catalyst so all these
cases on this side are droppable and waterproof
these ones are not waterproof but they're very droppable so
if you have any questions on any these cases do ask in the comments section
below
or ask us question on Google+ Twitter and Facebook if the questions cool enough
will actually make a video for it, so the last one was
are these lifeproof case still waterproof after five installs and uninstalls we
did that video
they are I'm a reviewer at Mobile Review - eh.ca
all these cases we've used and we have reviewed
them so we actually take the time to figure out what works well in the case
action the phone works well in that case but what is special about that case and
what is not special about that case and so
we give you that information so that you don't have to break your device or you
can make the best decision possible in terms of protecting your case
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