Two Pounds of Steel and Aluminum

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Since the need for protection must be large: Rich weighs 2.1 kg, the iPhone case, which was intended to protect the Japanese manufacturer Marudai iPhones to outside influences. The external influences in this case has to be very brutally, before the iPhone goes to the collar. Because this case does not protect against scratches or accidental falls. It will make the phone bulletproof, bear direct fire with 12.7-millimeter ammunition.

Who do buy something and what it should be good, but not even the manufacturer itself there are “no practical benefit,” the company explains on its Japanese website. This statement must be taken literally, if only because the heavy protective cover in one direction only really reliable protection offer, to the rear. The back, in which a can be inserted iPhone 4 or 4S, consists of a one-inch thick steel plate to penetrate the likely require some energy. Against this tank the bull looks downright ridiculous. The screen is protected around the Apple phone only by a relatively thin anodized aluminum casing, the screen remains unarmored.

Similar weaknesses can be found all around for the phone: All connections are sinking into deep though but still vulnerable openings. No wonder then that the manufacturer will give the intended function of bullet-proof protective cover any warranty. But if you’re actually even get into the predicament that bullets fly on the one hand, the armor should be the last concern of the iPhone, which afflicts its owner.

The everyday users of the iPhone armor with all other problems will have to fight. If you try to photograph, for example through the camera aperture with a mobile phone shows the images on a small circular image midst of deep darkness. An auxiliary lens that is inserted into the opening, should resolve this Vignettierungsproblem. In addition, you should handle them carefully and to be careful not to let it accidentally fall on a glass table. Not to mention the effect on trousers, jackets and other pockets throughout.

If you slow down from all these restrictions can not be, just have to dig deep enough into the pocket, in order thus to secure an Apple gadget. With 52 500 yen, the equivalent of 496 €, the price is set to where you have to add more shipping costs and import taxes. Not exactly a bargain, but they know it at Madurai – and puts the first purchasers in as a bonus, a dummy round in the 12.7-millimeter format.