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after you've made your decision on which smartphone Fabul or tablet to buy you're probably gonna want to do a couple things number one you'll want some kind of a case to protect your investment number two you'll realize that battery life is limited and you'll want some way to extend that I'm Joe Levi for PocketNow this is a hands-on look at the HTC power flip case for the HTC One Maxx this is the HTC One Maxx the Sprint Edition and back here behind this case is a non-removable 3300 milliamp hour battery now that's a large battery by any stretch of the imagination and even with this very very large screen it does a really good job at lasting for a very very long time however since you can't replace that battery you're gonna need some way to get a charge whether that's having a car charger or some other way and portable battery or whatnot to to recharge this whenever you need it you're gonna have to have that also this is a very unusual size so finding a case for it especially a case with the flip cover was not easy luckily HTC has you covered and that is this and no no pun intended this is the HTC power flip cover it's somewhat expensive coming in around $65 at least that's what it was priced at Amazon when we film this video it looks just like any other flip cover right except it doesn't notice down here if you will these three little pins and on the back this little raised button it doesn't actually do anything it's just there to kind of index the case which I kind of like but what does it do and why is it there well if you notice on the back of this HTC you have these three little gold pins now I've been a fan of these for a long time they're called pogo pins and what they do is they let you plug in without plugging in so if you've got a car dock or a desk dock you can just set your device in and if it's compatible it'll have three little gold posts that will touch those three little gold circles there and you'll be able to charge while you're in your car or it's on the dock put in a case sure enough let's go ahead and install this we're going to put it in at this side first installs just that easily and it looks good you've got your front firing speakers real holes up here on the back nice cutout for your fingerprint scanner your flash your camera and down here that HTC badge you've also got some cutouts for your microphones and whatnot down here for USB charging and your mic down on the bottom as well now the first thing that I have noticed is this cover is very heavy relatively speaking and I thought that was just you know a sign of quality but once you get deeper find out this case has a ribbon that runs through here and over to this side and this side includes a 1200 milliamp battery 1,150 milliamp nominal inside it so here's a case that adds no more bulk other than what a case normally would and this one doesn't add too much bulk at all you still have a very nice finger grips you still have access to your buttons without going through any kind of cutouts or auxilary buttons or whatnot you've got this really nice stand feature so you can set it on your desk set it up like that set it on your lap it works well it looks good it protects your screen that protects your corners and it's got a 1200 milliamp battery inside so it looks great it's a wonderful case I would highly recommend it it costs a little more than normal cases in normal case like this you're probably gonna be looking anywhere from 40 bucks to 50 bucks this one costs about 65 so it a little it is a little more expensive but to include an extended battery I think it's very very well worth it one other item of note you're probably all interested in battery life right well with 3300 milliamp hours inside an additional 1200 ml amp hours in the cover how long does this last you know what I'd love to tell you but I can't because we never ran it out of battery we've had this thing for about a week now and I have just barely charged it one time so that I'd make sure that I have enough charge for this video it lasted a very long time now one other thing to look at here if you'll notice our battery icon has a little green plus sign which indicates that we are getting supplemental power from the case through those pogo pins very very cool as you can see this idea is brilliant and it puts pogo pins to a perfect use probably a reason why every device in the entire world should have pogo pins if not for this particular reason for reasons like this that we just haven't seen yet if you like seeing this kind of stuff why not give the video a thumbs up and share it with your friends on any one of your favorite social media networks my favorite is Twitter where we're at pocket now and I'm at Joe Levi thank you very very much for watching for pocket now we'll catch you next time