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hey guys it's Jill with pocketnow.com now that some of the hype about Google's newest smartphone the Nexus 4 has started to wear off a little bit we want to go back and take a look at well one of the only accessories that's available for it it's the Nexus 4 bumper it comes in a really big box will unbox it will show you what it looks like it's not if you want to get it for your Nexus 4 right now inside this deceptively lightweight box is our Nexus 4 bumper let's go ahead and cut into it we'll use the Kershaw official unboxing blade it's a shout out to Michael Fisher and his blade it's also some filler so that you don't have to sit in silence well I'm unboxing this guy go ahead and open the box inside we've got packing material we've got shipping information and we've got this plastic case opening that up is relatively easy I say as I make it look at it quick holds slide that out of the way and now we have just a sheet of paper really cardboard with the bumper on top kind of suspended on this little bump out that's about it on the back it says bumper case customize your Nexus 4 with a lightweight bumper case and it says that in lots of languages made in Korea interestingly enough so you might be able to rock your phone Gangnam style now looking around up at the top we've got a hole for our headphone jack we've got a microphone hole we've got kind of the same look that we had on the the Nexus 4 which is up on the top we've got kind of a black color we've got a semi metallic plastic looks like plastic anyway around the middle and then black down on the bottom as well moving around to the side we have an actual physical button for your power and that just passes right through if you can see that on the inside over here we've got our volume up and down also as a physical button so this is going to look like a an actual part of the phone not just an accessory going around it looking at the bottom now we've got a nice big opening for the micro USB in another microphone hole down there and really that's it in fact you can see kind of comes apart a little bit until then it's not gonna be problem since we're gonna have a phone in there holding it out but just to show you it is actually a couple separate pieces in there feeling it it's a little bit textured a little bit gritty which is a kind of a good thing this is supposed to help you hold on to your phone a little bit better since it's got this lip on the back we're gonna put the phone in from the front and I like starting out with the button side it's a little bit pliable and there we go it's on it's that's it it installs very very easily the buttons are quite responsive volume up volume down they work really well in fact you wouldn't know that this was a bumper unless we showed you that it was a bumper you might just think it's part of the phone it's that integrated and that stylistic which is nice so looking at it the the bumper does elevate the back of the phone off the surface of whatever you're setting it down on so that's going to protect it from getting any Nick's or scratches down here on the back that's very nice especially because scratches eventually leave to cracks and you've got a couple of cracked points right down here where they're holes in the glass already for the camera and speaker on the front however it also does that which I I realize you've got to do that so it has something to grip on to but it's kind of a pain because one of the nice things about this phone is its see if I can get it back out again is this nice curved front I don't want to call it a bevel because it's more rounded it's rounded on the sides and then just nice and flat on the top which is really really nice for when you're swiping cuz you've got a nice gentle graceful approach into the swipe right-to-left and I love that about this phone putting the bumper on it however interrupts that you lose that entirely and now you're dealing with just like any other phone that has a hard edge to it now you've got that hair as well overall it doesn't look like it adds any noticeable weight to the device it doesn't look like it adds any noticeable width or height to it it looks like it's essentially part of the device like it was designed for it and they just kind of left it off when they shipped it to you the $20 accessory I don't know if that's worth it or not but if we're considering it might protect the front or back glass from getting cracked or scratched and that cost a lot more than 20 bucks to fix so overall I liked it quite a bit we're gonna run with this for a few days and I think everything that's gonna come up peachy from what everybody's saying it's a nice device it's an it's a nice accessory for your device we like it we think it's worth it for you to buy if you've got any kind of concerns about cracking or scratching if you've already got this device on your nexus 4 we want to know head over to pocketnow.com leave us some comments down in the comment section on the article do that over at pocket now rather than here on youtube if you're watching it on youtube just because we like to keep all the comments together in one place so we can all learn from one another's experiences let us know if you like it or if you don't like it and why that's kind of the big part of that question is why do you like it why do you not like it for PocketNow showing off the Nexus 4 bumper I'm Joe Levi thanks for watching