{"id":1335,"date":"2018-01-29T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2018-01-29T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:35:54","slug":"best-smartphone-case-ces-2018-drop-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2018\/01\/29\/best-smartphone-case-ces-2018-drop-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Best smartphone case — CES 2018 drop test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get a new smartphone and you’re probably going to get a case. I got one because my bare phone was slippery. I had no particular brand loyalty. So, if you’re not loyal to a previous brand, there are lots of choices. If drop protection is vital, then this Cnet video article “We broke $9,000 worth of phones to find the toughest iPhone X case<\/a>” may be of interest.<\/p>\n

We challenged 12 case makers to a live drop test at CES and dropped their cases from 20 feet. These were the last ones standing.<\/p>\n

We invited the top case makers in the market to participate in a live drop test at CES<\/a> to find out which one could survive the highest drop.<\/p>\n

And 12 of them took us up on the offer: Caseology<\/a>, Rokform<\/a>, Thanotech<\/a>, BodyGuardz<\/a>, Tech21<\/a>, Pelican<\/a>, PureGear<\/a>, Zizo<\/a>, Spigen<\/a>, RhinoShield<\/a>, Supcase<\/a> and OWC<\/a> showed up at the CNET live stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center at CES 2018. Each brought their own brand-new iPhone Xs (still in the box) and their toughest case so we could drop them onto concrete slabs. Things escalated pretty quickly after that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Get a new smartphone and you’re probably going to get a case. I got one because my bare phone was slippery. I had no particular brand loyalty. So, if you’re not loyal to a previous brand, there are lots of choices. If drop protection is vital, then this Cnet video article “We broke $9,000 worth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,123,5,2],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-phone","category-site","category-video","tag-phone-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}