Apple iPhone XS Max Smart Battery Case White Review By Peter von Panda

What's happened to be animation, Peter bumps the end I hear the new iPhones get perfect battery life, but what happens when it's not good enough? Well, what I didn't realize until recently is that uh Apple released an iPhone excess max smart battery case now, if you are familiar with the other, older iPhones I know that they had these types of cases before their kind of like a humpback case, or not. Maybe the slick, slickest or sleekest thing I've ever seen in my life, but you know they are manufactured and designed by Apple, so I kind of like the fact that they were obviously integrated and probably well tested in pretty high quality, but I never tried one on my own and when I upgraded to the new iPhone I thought the battery life was really, really good. In fact, even though full day's worth of use out of it is not uncommon, that being said, I'm really treed by this extra battery, because there are some days when I could feel like I could really hunt. You know tax it quite a bit now. The first thing I will tell you, is I pulled out the case. You can see, there's like foam and glue down here.

This is not a separate part, but that's how it stays in there. So really nice kind of overall engineer packaging in some ways and then here's the battery case. It has a little of weight to it. You can see here, we've got all the paper. Goodies inside looks like your kind of fold, the top-down slide your phone in and then flip it back over I'm assuming, and I'm, hoping that it's just as that simple, and you can see I got it white.

They also have in a black, but since I have a white, iPhone, I kind of wanted to match that, and this one I'm talking about this little humpback. It's almost like a three box car design here. This looks very much like any kind of furnish silicone case. We have really nice, molded and buttons here and in gray and then cut out for the volume rocker cut out here, with a large beveled edge for the camera again I molded in button Oh looks like it's gray there and then cutouts here for the speakers and then another Lightning port here, because not only will I be able to put this on, and I'm just going to kind of Bend this back and do it as they suggest, because you kind of want to slide it right into this lightning. Connector there I'm gonna straight away, so I'm going to slide that in okay got it just flip the top down, and now you can see here, we do get a little screen protection, because this is where this edge is raised above the glass just a little it's by a millimeter raised, which is nice, that's actually pretty decent screen protection feels nice.

This is kind of our soft matte rubberized finish here, so it's really smooth in the hand. I kind of worry a little about this, showing dirt and grime over time, especially in the white, but the black might do that too. I do like that. The Apple logo is right. There you can see how tight of a fit it is around the camera.

Housing I mean it just really hugs that housing and then, as you might we'll see there even that's about a millimeter thicker than the housing. So you'll get some protection there, no problem getting to the switches here: volume buttons everything works, yep, then you can see here, speaker and microphone. Holes are all lined up, but the battery, because it's piggybacked here the Lightning connectors here where it's here on the phone now. This is really kind of interesting here, because this also will allow you in apparently it's integrated, pretty nicely I'm gonna just hit the phone here, and it's not charging, so I kind of don't think that there's any charge on this bad boy yet, but what we have is the capability to really charge us in any way you like, so I've got a lightning cable here, I'm just going to plug it in okay. So I saw the phone just power on you know.

Because I've got two plugged in here, and so you can see there, it is actually charging. So the case must have been discharged now, I, don't see any lights on the case to indicate the battery status to me, so it's kind of just like regular charging of the iPhone you're charging the battery, that's kind of passing through to the iPhone itself, and obviously I think it'll work kind of in tandem, not necessarily in parallel, because I don't think this battery will charge up until this battery starts stops. Drawing on it. It's really just kind of passing it through I'm. Only I don't see that I can't figure that the current here is enough to kind of charge them both in parallel.

So now the issue here is that because the iPhone access in the iPhone 10 and the XS max all had wireless charging, they already thought of that, and they put wireless charging receiver in the back of here. So, let's go and check that out and I also want to bring up the fact that what happens when your wireless charging and charging on a cable, so I'll show you that too, so I have a wireless charger set up here. I've got the phone here: I'm just going to connect center with the hump centered, no, not getting anything there. So if I actually Center it, even though the hump starts here in the center of it's right here, you actually do want to Center the phone for the most part. You can see it's charging there now I'm going to pull it off here, because it's only showing up for a second.

But if I put it down here, you can see I actually get two notifications about how charged the batteries on the phone and on the case right there and if I take it off. So when you put it down or pick it up, that's how it works. Now. I'm gonna just go into my today view here too, because this is where you can find the status as well. So you can see my phone is pretty much Church, but the smart battery case is not charged basically at all now.

The other thing I want to tell you here is I've got the phone down. You know my room here is really well lit. I should probably go low, like but kind of in the instructions. On the case, it says that when it's charging there's an amber light that glows and I don't see that anywhere- and it may just be too bright in here, but even as I kind of looked in lower light levels, I don't see it. I might be hidden behind the case or kind of really subtle somewhere, but I don't see that anywhere.

So just going to keep better mind, but I certainly think plugging it in is gonna, be the fastest way to charge this up, but it is kind of nice to have you know. Basically, you almost double the battery capacity. You know, especially if you're going to be on the road for extend period of time. Start early in the morning not be done till late at night can I'm having that peace of mind, especially if you're going to be taking a lot of calls or watch a video or play music. Those types of things, so pretty cool, I dig it.

You can pick this up. You got to pick it up from Apple itself, but I really liked the fact that it's well integrated, obviously into the OS as well. So I will put a link to the description. Peter brown panda out.

Source : Peter von Panda