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what's up guys David here and you've heard of modular smartphones before or a phone that can change or be added on to over time but what you probably haven't heard of yet is a modular smartphone case so when Ryder Shield reached out wanting to team up and sponsor a video telling me that their new iPhone cases were also modular it got my attention because we've done drought tests on rhino shield cases before we did one where we dropped the oneplus three off of the third story of a building and the phone was able to survive that we'll also be doing a drop test in this video so stick around for that but the idea of having that high level of protection with the case that can basically make your iPhone modular is interesting so this is the Rhino shield mod case and at first glance it looks like a regular bumper it has a raised lip on both the front and the back along with their shocks red material that allows your phone to withstand drops of at least 11 feet and being a bumper the phone's design isn't hidden like some of the bigger and bulkier cases do so if you want to maintain that design if you want to be able to appreciate all the hard work that the team at Apple put into it then a bumper obviously is one way they want to go but up the first place where the mod case is different from other bumpers is you can completely customize the look of it the room on the back of the phone and the buttons on the side are removable so you can swap them out with different colors to make whatever unique color combo you want of course given that the back glass on the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 10 costs a lot of money to repair you might want an extra layer of protection on the back just in case it like falls on a rock or something and what's cool is the mod case can actually transform from being a bumper to a full-on protective case a backplate already comes in the box that you can just pop on and they also have a bunch of different ones that you can choose from you can do a simple setup like this with a clear back and a white bumper so you can kind of preserve the idea of having a bumper or if you don't care about hiding that Apple logo you can do a whites marbled backplate that we actually paired with white side buttons that gives you a nice and classy look and then there's my personal favorite the carbon fiber back plates with yellow buttons this to me looks absolutely amazing I'm a big fan of this I just put it a Lamborghini wallpaper on there just to kind of complete the supercar look but again you can make hundreds of different combos to match your own style but the modularity on this case goes beyond just changing it from being a bumper to a full case or making them look different there's also the option to upgrade some of your phone's capabilities like the camera so runner shield has four different lenses right now that you can choose from that you can just twist on when you have lens adapter installed there's a fisheye lens which honestly I'm not a big fan of because it's like I don't really take those kind of photos but I am a fan of the HD wide-angle lens that looks just like a lens you'd get for a DSLR it even comes with a lens hood and it gives you a crisp and clear 110 degree viewing angle with almost no Distortion they also have a super wide angle lens that has a crazy 165 degree viewing angle if you really want to get like everything into your shots and my personal favorite is this combo lens they have which can not only give you a 100 degree wide angle but you can also twist off the top layer of the lens and have it double as a macro lens letting you get super close up to things to get those macro shots that you normally just wouldn't be able to now I think the most interesting part about this case and like the whole modular system is Rhino shield says this is just the beginning they have other things in the works like back plates that can be used as a wallet with little slots they're also working on supposedly like a battery backplate and there's even these two little slots here towards the bottom that right now can be used to insert a lanyard but they're also kind of hinting that those slots will be used for something else in the future so I'm excited to see what happens I'm excited to see the modular system grow I think a lot of companies have tried to do modular smartphones and they kind of failed and I honestly do think that a modular smartphone case does make a little bit more sense because a most people are gonna put a case on their phones anyways and be you can put this case on the iPhone you already have you don't go out and buy a whole separate phone now unfortunately the mod case isn't yet available for Android phones that will be coming later but for now they still have their new crashguard case available for phones like the galaxy s 8 and the pixel 2 which are supposed to be even thinner and tougher than they were before thanks to a new material but Before we jump out of this video there's still one thing left to do we have to do a drop test right we have to test durability this thing because it's a case and I also wanted to test out these lenses like do a video test for you guys so I figured there's only one thing we can really do right do a drop test filmed entirely on iPhones using these lenses so let's go outside alright so we are outside what you're looking through right now is the lens of an iPhone 8 plus we got the HD lens attached like the big boy over here for the side camera we have an iPhone 7 with that awesome carbon fiber back plates but the lens we have attached here is the wide angle so like that 165 degree angle it does give you a little bit of distortion but I think it's the best lens to put in this situation where we want to make sure that it captures the drop which speaking of here is the iPhone 10 so I'll go ahead and put in my pocket and drop it as if I did it on accident it hurts it hurts does it work though yep we're good so next drop is a little bit higher up this is probably the second most common drop you got your chest heights say you're texting and like your accident I sneeze it's still I don't know I've done thousands of drops s and yet it's still you know hurts a little inside so phone is still good it's that time it's that time where we do the extreme test I mean this is not so extreme but we're gonna do something a little extreme right we're gonna lift it up I'm about 6 foot tall 3 2 1 okay it looks like it's good so yes we are still good let's see the the gesture works I remember before when our their job tries to network all right we're good I mean there you have it that's the Rhino shield mod case it's gonna protect your phone obviously from these everyday drops we already did a drop test with a crash guard from like over 22 feet so I wasn't too surprised still scared me a little but if you guys want to learn more about the mod case check out the link down below in the description they're also giving you guys 10% off you guys are interested but I'll put all the details down below so outside of that that's pretty much it for me in this video I think I've done enough I'll see you guys and the very next