Case-Mate iPhone 3G And 3GS Fuel

Sum n substance:

Thumbs up: comfortable holster make, fine finishing, comfortable placing of the on/off button.

Thumbs down: Kind of clunky, takes long to charge.

THE WHIZ-KID SPEAKS: Imagine… you have an urgent meeting to attend but are stuck in the traffic and you iPhone conks off because of low battery. Well I guess most of us are quite familiar with this kind of a helpless scenario. And now for all those people who ve been harrowed with such experiences and for the few who want to avoid such situations totally the Case-Mate brings in some much needed relief. You can charge your iPhone while on the move using this snug charger.

This one has a soft pleasant plasticky feel too it which doesn’t make it feel cheap or tacky in anyway. It’s basically combines the conventional holster along with a chargeable battery. This one measures 4.4 x 2.0 x 0.5 and slides in with much ease into the pocket. Also it could be easily hooked onto the belt with the help of a 180 degree rotating swivel ratchet. It weighs around 3.2 ounces making it a bit clunky and along with the iPhone it weighs around 7.9 ounces. That’s pretty much bulky, but then that’s just some price you have to pay for anywhere charging.

Also the iPhone could be charged using USB and to support this there is a USB port on the right of the holster. There are also three LED’s on the face of the charger which help you monitor how the charging is progressing. It hardly took me around 2 hours too fully recharge my phone. If the LED is red then it means that the device is still charging, if its orange it means that the charge of the battery is below the 50 percent mark and the green light indicates that the phone has been fully charged.

Well this one quite doesn’t live upto the expectations when it comes to reviving a dead iPhone. It almost took like 15 mins to revive my iPhone whereas the Case- Mate’s other competitors like the RichardSolo 1800 could do this job in like a minute and a half. But here again the RichardSolo takes around 4 hours 45 minutes to totally charge itself and the Case-Mate hardly took like 2  hours 30 minutes to be precise to charge itself.

Nitty- Gritty: This one is quite slow when it comes to reviving dead iPhones and I genuinely wish the manufacturers could do something about it. However, the solid build of the Case-Mate and snug designing makes it quite comfortable to carry around. If all you want is to just keep your cell  charged when your travellling then this one could be your pick.

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