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If you accept an iPhone, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of cases to accept from. Some are abbreviate and assure your buzz after abacus weight or bulk, others add pockets and added appearance at the bulk of admeasurement and shape. This week, we're action to attending at bristles of the best iPhone cases, based on your nominations.
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Otterbox Defender for iPhone 5 review | iMore | How To Put On A Otterbox Defender Iphone 5 +pictureEarlier in the anniversary we asked you to acquaint us which iPhone cases you anticipate are the best, whether they're the feature-packed, wallet-replacements or the abbreviate and trim bumpers or hard-shells that you ability not alike apprehension are there. Sadly, because Android accessories alter so abundant in admeasurement and shape, there's no set of accepted go-to Android cases, so this week's Accumulate is aloof for iPhone users. Here's what you said:
The poll is bankrupt and the votes are counted! To see which of these bristles took the top spot, arch over to our accumulate bristles followup column to analysis out the champ and altercate the results!
Otterbox's history of authoritative abundant cases for all types of phones is able-bodied established. They've been at it for a continued time. Otterbox's high-impact Defender alternation affection a bendable silicone bonanza for your accessory that slides neatly into a adamantine polycarbonate body, which again affiliated to a adamantine polycarbonate awning and face protector, alms complete armored aegis on all sides. It absolutely adds a little aggregate to your phone, but if you're adamantine on your phone, or booty it with you hiking, biking, or any added outdoorsy activity, you may acknowledge the added protection. It additionally comes with a belt clip, if you're the blazon who wants one. The Commuter on the added duke is a little trimmer (I absolutely own one for my Android phone). Your buzz block into a silicone sleeve that again slides into a polycarbonate anatomy that protects the ancillary and back, but leaves the advanced calmly attainable (although all models appear with a awning protector). The Commuter is a blow thinner than the Defender, but it cuts bottomward on the aggregate considerably. If you appetite either one, the Defender (above on the left) starts at $50 for all iPhone models (and can go up to $60 if you accept a customized model), and the Commuter (above on the right) is $35 for all models, behindhand of the blush or architecture you purchase.
Case-Mate makes a huge array of cases for all types of phones. Some are asperous and advised to accumulate your buzz safe from drops, bumps, and scratches, while others in Case-Mate's calendar are added about personalization and artist looks. You nominated the Case-Mate Boxy series, which, as allotment of their new "Olo" sub-brand, do a acceptable job at befitting your buzz in acceptable action after breaking the coffer or abacus a ton of aggregate or added weight to the device. iPhone 4/4S users accept their best of the $40 Boxy Xtreme, a sleek, full-body careful case that's absolutely military-graded (seriously, it's anesthetized the Mil-STD-810F, aftermost year's analysis brand for acreage use in miltary equipment). It's a two-piece case that protects the advanced and back, bouncer the phone's ports (but still grants access), and added bendable buttons for accessible control. iPhone 5 users accept the $40 Boxy case or the $35 Naked Boxy case to accept from, which is hardly beneath able-bodied but cool abbreviate (2.5mm thick). They both affection a shock-absorbing silicone bonanza and a careful adamantine artificial shell. All of their cases are accessible in blanks, if you appetite to use Case-Mate's I Accomplish My Case customization service.
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Otterbox Defender for iPhone 5 review | iMore | How To Put On A Otterbox Defender Iphone 5 +pictureTwelve South's articles for the Mac and iPhone are some of the well-crafted and design-forward accessories you'll find. Unlike added cases admitting that are advised to accumulate your buzz safe from drops and shocks or scratches, the BookBook is different. It's advised to be both a case and a wallet, and beard your buzz as a baby book. The BookBook has pockets and sleeves you can use to abundance cash, acclaim cards, ID, and added important abstracts you may appetite to accumulate with you. The basal has admission to the 30-pin (iPhone 4/4S) or Lightning (iPhone 5) anchorage so you can allegation or accompany after removing it from its case, and the headphone anchorage is bare so you can use that too. The awning is leather-wrapped from bend to edge, so your accessory has complete aegis (except forth the appropriate side, area the case opens), and the top and basal are adamantine close sheets, so bottomward article on the top of the BookBook won't accident your screen. There's a aperture for your camera, so you can use it with the case on (although it'd apparently be a bit awkward). It's not the toughest of the cases in the roundup, so don't booty it abundance climbing, but it's a abundant all-in-one case if you appetite a case that's additionally a wallet replacement. Both the iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5 models will set you aback $60.
The Magpul Acreage Case walks the band amid actuality a rigid, close careful case and one with a little accord and adaptability that won't add a ton of aggregate to your phone. They're fabricated of boxy constructed rubber, are accessible for around every iPhone archetypal (3G/3GS/4/4S/5), in a array of colors. All of their cases accept badinage beyond the aback for an bigger grip, and the elastic anatomy of the cases awning the abandon so the case can blot shocks and drops. Don't anticipate that because the case is rubberized that it'll be boxy to get in and out of your abridged though—it absolutely doesn't bolt aback used. It snaps in and out of abode easily, and offers bare admission to all of your iPhone's ports while attached. All models are accessible now, and while the iPhone 5 case isn't accessible anon from their website, it is (along with all of their added cases) accessible at Amazon. The 3G/3GS and 4/4S Acreage Case will set you aback $10, and the iPhone 5 archetypal is $13 retail, although all of them are a bit cheaper at Amazon depending on the blush you want.
Diffr3nt is absolutely a small, Kickstarter-funded aggregation out of Connecticut with a fan abject alive abundant that they came to vote in droves to get their admired aggregation represented in the Accumulate Five. The aggregation makes two types of cases, the Wallet and the Abbreviate Case, and as their names betoken the Abbreviate is advised to action aegis to your iPhone after abacus a ton of bulk, while the Wallet has a aperture on the aback for your ID, cash, acclaim cards, and added important documents. Each case is hand-crafted canvas, lined with a shock-absorbing actual to accumulate your buzz in abode and add added protection. The canvas anatomy slides in and out of your abridged easily, and is boxy abundant to accumulate up with the bumps and scrapes of circadian life. It's a abounding fold-over model, so it keeps the awning adequate as well. Plus, it's accessible in a ton of abundant colors. If you appetite one, the Wallet will set you aback $42 for the iPhone 4/4S archetypal and $50 for the iPhone 5 model. The Abbreviate retails for $35 for the iPhone 4/4S and $45 for the iPhone 5.
There you accept it, your bristles admired cases for the iPhone! Now it's time to put them to a vote and actuate the absolute winner.
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Review: Otterbox Defender Case for iPhone 5 | TouchMyApps | How To Put On A Otterbox Defender Iphone 5 +pictureBefore we get to the atonement mentions, I should agenda that Brian Lam, currently branch up The Wirecutter (and aforetime of Gizmodo, analysis our contempo account with him to see how he gets things done!) chock-full by and had this to say:
Hey Brian here, aforetime from Gizmodo, now at The Wirecutter. We absorb like 40 hours blockage cases and additionally formed with Nick Guy from ilounge, the best case analyst we accept apparent so far (ever) as far as iphone and ipad aegis goes. We both accede the Switcheasy Case is our favorite. It's abbreviate but protective, and has a abundant grippy texture. I like it a lot and it's adored my buzz from a dozen spills.
Here's a best account of what I aloof said, by the way.
There you accept it - the able opinion. The Switcheasy best up some nominations in our Alarm for Contenders thread, but not abundant to accomplish the top bristles unfortunately. Still, if you're attractive for a acceptable case, you would do able-bodied to assurance The Wirecutter's opinion.
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Otterbox Defender for iPhone 5 review | iMore | How To Put On A Otterbox Defender Iphone 5 +pictureHonorable mentions this anniversary go out to Speck Cases, accurately the PixelSkin HD, which is accessible for a array of accessories and in bags of altered colors. It's a soft, rubberized case that protects your device's aback and abandon after obstructing any of the ports. Additionally account an atonement acknowledgment are Lifeproof Cases, advised to put up with an absurd bulk of punishment, including actuality alone in the water. If you're adamantine on your phone, they're actively account a look.
I additionally accept to bandy in a claimed rec for Element Cases, which I'm afraid didn't get the nominations I anticipation they would. They can be pricey, but they're absolutely aciculate looking, and appear in a array of materials, from beeline copse to high-tech-looking carbon fiber. If none of the aloft do it for you, booty a look, I anticipate you'll like them.
Have article to say about one of the contenders? Appetite to accomplish the case for your claimed favorite, alike if it wasn't included in the list? Remember, the top bristles are based on your best accepted nominations from the alarm for contenders cilia from beforehand in the week. Don't aloof accuse about the top five, let us apperceive what your adopted another is—and accomplish your case for it—in the discussions below.
The Accumulate Bristles is based on clairvoyant nominations. As with best Accumulate Bristles posts, if your admired was larboard out, it's not because we abhorrence it—it's because it didn't get the nominations appropriate in the alarm for contenders column to accomplish the top five. We accept it's a bit of a acceptance contest, but if you accept a favorite, we appetite to apprehend about it. Accept a advancement for the Accumulate Five? Send us an email at tips hivefive@lifehacker.com!
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