What is going on everyone? It is Mike. And welcome back to
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Apple is releasing products underneath the radar. They are
doing this with not even product announcement
for this one. T his is the battery case for the iPhone 11
Pro Max and it's available now at Apple stores. You could
actually go pick this up in stores today if you wanted to e
ven though Apple said it wouldn't be
available until Monday.
This version retails for one hundred twenty nine dollars
($129 USD) and really this is going to go ahead and give you
about 50 percent more battery life than what you are getting
today on your iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone
11 Pro Max. Now for me, the battery life has been
pretty good and I've been getting nine hours ish of
screen on time sometimes it really depends on what my day
looks like.
But if you are you know if you're experiencing good
battery life and you don't necessarily need the
bump in juice, there is a another reason why you might
consider buying this. Apple has a dedicated camera button
on the right hand side of the case. You know when you're
looking at the phone
So what you do is hold it down. It's gonna go and
open the camera, push it once you want to go in and
take one photo, you push hold it at you and take a video.
And so right now this is the while we're taking a video the
camera but oh it's kind of cool if I hold it down. It opens
the camera.
And then if I hold it on so more, it actually closes
the camera pretty neat. L ike all of these Apple
smart battery cases, this is highly integrated into iOS.
it gives you the battery life inside of the today
view widget. You swipe over to the right once. Here's the
today view widget and you go to the bottom and it tells you
that you have roughly 59 percent and it is charging the
phone while we're talking. It's not one of the battery
cases like that you need to turn on or turn off like the
Mophie cases that you might have been familiar with.
This is always charging your phone.
And soon as it's depleted, then your phone will switch
over to the internal battery on the iPhone. Now on the last
smart battery case that I owned I was able to put that I like
around six thirty in the morning and get all the way
until 5 o'clock with the smart battery case on until
that died. So I got a lot of usage on that. I will have to
find that video in case you haven't seen it. I'll link it
up above.
But I do planning know using this you know the holidays
coming up and traveling which travels usually the best kind
of indicator of how the battery is going to perform.
Comes in black, comes in white, and there is a stone
pink version. This is going to be USB-C power delivery
(USB-C PD) . Here you have the speakers for the music to go
and pass through.
Really there's not a whole lot different I think the only
theme I might or it might feel different is that the lip that
goes around the iPhone or the screen feels a little bit
thicker than it did last year. If you're unfamiliar what
you're going to go and do here on the inside there's going to
be an LED when this is charging this is going to light up.
Put the put the iPhone here.
You can peel back the top of the case, slide it down here
Go on then you see there where it's actually got the indicator
on the display.
When you first put it in there. So gives you a visual
indication of what the battery is. So I think for most
people unless you are really going to be hard on your
battery that this is not going to be a buy for one hundred
thirty ($130) bucks.
It's got the soft touch rubber does feel nice. Maybe if you
take a lot of photos that could be the only other reason why I
think that this would be obviously valuable because you
got that integration with a dedicated camera button.
Other ways that you can go ahead and take a photo you
could swipe the left open up the camera. That's going
to work. There you can go ahead and hold down the
shutter button. Here are the dedicated camera button.
You could ask Siri to go and do it. That would feel
stupid though.
Take a photo Yeah. You feel dumb that way.
So I think that in the grand scheme of things,
hundred thirty dollars ($130) you know mostly we're not going
to buy this Apple knows already that the battery life on these
three devices is better than it was last year and better to be
good enough for most people.
For the people that are you know just exhausting the
battery by midday, 3 or 4 o'clock and they need to
keep going. This is going to be a no brainer because the
integration with the operating system. And if you're
taking photos you're getting the added benefit of a
dedicated camera button which is really I think it's easy to
use one handed. You know it's obviously easy to use in this
way but most people as a you know selfie culture.
Right. We're all going to take a picture we're going to go
ahead and look at the camera. We're got hold of one of our
hands it might not be our dominant hand in order to get
that kind of angle on it.
You have the shutter button which you can use your ring
finger for maybe even your pinky finger for I don't know
for me when taking a selfie using the volume rocker doesn't
really work that well for me. Like I said I kind of tilt it
down and give it unflattering angle.
Not a cute selfie, gotta delete it.
Let me know what you think about this. Are you going to
pick one up and if you are are you getting it because you go
through the battery quite quickly or are you getting it
for the dedicated camera button?
I'm going to be posting my experiences on Twitter make
sure you are following me there it's at Caputo I am Mike and I
will talk to in the next one