You asked for it now here it is, part dual of the iPhone 4 battery case examination featuring fan-fave Exolife from Exogear. Like the Mophie Juice Pack Air and Mili PowerSpring 4 battery packs we already reviewed, the Exolife box promises to “probably double” the holdup of your iPhone 4 — something conjunction the Mophie nor Mili could utterly pull off. Exogear’s claim is even some-more bold since the one more boast about being a “world’s thinnest as well as lightest battery box” for a iPhone 4. Can it presumably contest and hit the Mophie Juice Pack Air out of its pretension place? Click by to find out.Exolife Exogear iPhone 4 battery case examination

Specs

There are dual standout specs for the Exolife: distance and cost. At just 129.5 x 62 x 14.9 mm, it simply bests a 128.8 x 63.8 x 17.2 mm Juice Pack Air and 124 x 65 x 18 mm Mili PowerSpring 4 in conditions of thickness and breadth whilst entrance in only the tad longer. Impressive, considering it packs a Sony-built battery of the same capacity (1530mAh smallest / 1600mAh standard as its competition. It’s additionally a lightest of the bunch at 2.08 ounces.

Of course, the reward price tag typically follows the consumer product which wins a thinnest as well as lightest difficulty. Exogear’s asking cost is $89.95. Fortunately, unlike a Mophie Juice Pack Air that is still only available at $79.95 MSRP from Mophie’s own onilne store, the Exolife can be purchased for less online (we found Amazon selling it for $72.40). You’ll have supplement an additional $14.95 to the sum if you want a additional transparent as well as gauche blue and immature bumpers instead of a transparent smokey grey chronicle handsomely included in the box.

Rounding things out is an on/off switch which turns on the additional extract usually when compulsory. A mini USB jack during a base allows for pass-thru charging as well as syncing with iTunes, presumption you can mislay the stubborn rubber cover.

Out of a box

Exogear simply stirs the most appropriate initial impression with its Exolife packaging. It looks similar to Apple gear from the outward as well as things have been parsimonious and tidy upon the inside once you moment open a plastic shell. A silken paper mock-up of the iPhone 4 conceals the user primer as well as sits snugly inside of the Exolife case to give a client a good thought of how his delicate little bundle of radios will look after squeeze. And like a foe, a Exolife ships about three-quarters charged (3 out of 4 LEDs lit on a backside blue battery scale for use right out of a box.

Side-by-side it’s tough to discuss it though the Exolife (center) definitely feels similar to the least massive case in day-to-day make use of. And a sharp ploycarbonate hardshell case means that it slides easily into the front pocket.

Design

Like a Mophie Juice Pack Air, a Exolife box is the two square affair. However, instead of integrating partial of the side panel into the battery member, Exolife uses the four-sided bumper (very identical to Apple’s own bumper) to securely encircle and fasten the iPhone 4 to a battery pack. First, you slip a iPhone 4 into the battery pack’s dock connector, afterwards you snap on a bumper in any dilemma of a rectangle. Don’t be concerned, if you miss the corner (which you did spasmodic a other 3 will prevent the nasty brief. No, you can’t use Exolife’s hard cosmetic fender as a replacement for Apple’s own rubberized Bumpers — it’s too long.

As the case a Exolife, like the Mili, won’t protect a front-side glass of your iPhone 4 should it drop to the floor. Unlike a some-more protecting Mophie, a side-bumpers only don’t rise tall enough to strengthen a arrangement. That’s the sacrifice you make when building a world’s thinnest iPhone 4 battery box. At least it redirects a bottom-side iPhone 4 speakers front-side only like a Mophie.

The Exolife does, however, yield very great access to all a iPhone 4’s controls. In fact, you can still entrance a controls one-handed as you would but the box. Sure, you have a maneuver your fingers a bit to avoid a plastic bumper it can simply be done. That alone could be a preference builder for any of you needing an outmost battery case on the regular basis.

Unfortunately, similar to the Mili and Mophie prior to it, a Exolife’s headphone-jack cutout competence block third-party headphones. In the splash it’s possible to mislay a fender whilst progressing charge, however, a box afterwards turn very unstable with a iPhone acting as a 4 as well as the half inch lever upon a Exolife’s dock connector — if you recollect your Archimedes then you won’t use it this way upon a unchanging basement.

Our last, admittedly minor gripe with Exolife pattern is a gimmicky battery scale. Instead of an instantly manifest indicator of battery power left inside a box, a press of the on/off switch causes a blue LEDs to stair step from left to right until all 4 LEDs are illuminated. Only then will it arrangement the appropriate bars to prove the battery pack’s stream charge level. This take 5 seconds (press and hold for 2 seconds as well as then 3 seconds to watch the dance). Shutting down a Exolife reverses the light sequence. It’s irritating as well as nonessential Exogear, so stop it.

Performance

We had to modify our testing the bit for the Exolife because it doesn’t duty as a delegate battery where a entirely charged iPhone will deplete a Exolife’s battery prior to switching to its internal energy source. When the Exolife detects which the iPhone 4’s inner battery is entirely charged it simply shuts off. Not which we’re blank this mode — even Mophie recommends using its battery case as an outmost horse (not secondary battery) for best performance.

So, using the same approach we took when reviewing the Mili and Mophie, you tested the Exolife with an iPhone 4 emptied completely as well as also 20 percent full (or 80 percent dull, if you prefer). For the dull iPhone 4 battery test, you charged from zero percent to 69 percent in 1 hour as well as 50 mins. A second test yielded the expect same result. So again, like a Mophie as well as Mili, a Exolife provides the ten percent assign for about every 16 mins a iPhone 4 is continuous.

We saw identical formula when starting with an iPhone 4 with the 20 percent charge. After one hour as well as 50 mins a Exolife was spent and a iPhone 4 read 87 percent full (charging 67 commission points). A repeat of this test brought it to 85 percent (charging 65 commission points) again after a single hour and 50 minutes.

These numbers are very similar to the performance we totalled for the Mophie and Mili battery cases, despite slightly less — the alternative dual cases regularly completed 69 percent points or improved of charge over a period of two hours. Keep in thoughts, a iPhone was configured for real-world usage during these tests (background push enabled, WiFi upon, etc) as it was for a Mili as well as Mophie tests — that could partly insist variations in opening.

So again, not “probably double” a life though flattering damn good from the battery box this slim and light.

Wrap up

Surprisingly, the Exolife’s battery performance was very similar to a Mophie Juice Pack Air even yet a Exolife is thinner and lighter than the incumbent. Unfortunately, the smaller distance formula in a scapegoat of any protection for the iPhone 4’s arrangement. That alone could lean some people’s purchasing decision. For us, a reduced bulk, higher one-handed entrance to the iPhone 4’s controls, and $72.40 cost tag upon Amazon (seven bucks as well as shift less than a Mophie) all combined up to have a Exogear Exolife the preference for a iPhone 4 battery case holdup.

Via Engadget