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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 24, 2015 - 05:36am PT
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Thoughts? Reccomendations? What is best for an active climber who does the odd wet canyon?
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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May 24, 2015 - 07:57am PT
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Two votes for Lifeproof case over here - Aya and Tom both have them and Tom says he loves his.
I have a Magpul case for mine. it's not waterproof but only runs $10 and it's made by a company here in Boulder. I'm pretty good about knot dropping my phone but I have a couple times.
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Aya K
Trad climber
Boulder, CO!
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May 24, 2015 - 08:05am PT
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I have had otterbox in the past... Lifeproof Fre is much lower profile and easier to get on and off. Probably slightly less shockproof, but so far so good.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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May 24, 2015 - 08:10am PT
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go to walmart for Cell phone stuff
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enjoimx
Trad climber
Yosemite
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May 24, 2015 - 08:11am PT
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Lifeprrof case disintegrated on me. So far the otterbox is holding up much better and doesn't obscure the camera like the lifeproof.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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May 24, 2015 - 08:15am PT
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go to walmart for Cell phone stuff
and caving!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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May 24, 2015 - 08:18am PT
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mister E it's best deal in town..
even have 36pack of coors $19.97!!!!
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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May 24, 2015 - 08:44am PT
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I had one on my droid for 3 years...dropped it & cracked the case corner, but the phone continued to work fine.
Just got an iPhone 6 last week, and got another otterbox for it...got the 'Symmetry' this time, as it's a little less bulky. We'll see how it goes....
(I also purchased the AppleCare policy, which has damage replacement coverage. Better coverage than the phone service's.)
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 24, 2015 - 09:01am PT
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I've been using a Lifeproof on a 5S for about two years.
Lifeproof makes the lightest, thinnest case that meets the MILSPEC shock and waterproof requirements. The Otterbox is several times heavier and maybe 50% thicker.
The case itself is excellent, but the accessories all suffer from the same design flaw in the attachment of the cradle to the underlying, clip, bike mount etc.
Nothing that can't be fixed with a little Seamgrip. For what they charge that shouldn't be required.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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May 24, 2015 - 09:49pm PT
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1st world problem (tracfone envy).
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dirtbag
climber
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May 25, 2015 - 06:09am PT
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Lifeprrof case disintegrated on me.
I had that same problem with a case for my 4. Lasted for about a year before it started to fray. I wasn't hard on that case either. For $75 I expected much more durability. And, it wasn't truly waterproof.
This was two years ago. Maybe they've gotten better? Unfortunately, and surprisingly, they don't seem to have much competition.
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crankster
Trad climber
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May 25, 2015 - 07:07am PT
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Check out the Catalyst cases.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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May 25, 2015 - 07:39am PT
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I had a Otterbox Defender for my G3 iPhone.
It exceeded my expectations. Perfect case. The phone looked like brand new three years later when it quit working. I wasn't careful with it either.
So I got another one to go with the new 4s phone. It's not as good as the earlier version. Its problem is there are several "vents" open for sound quality or something. These vents let in dirt. Fast. It's embarrassing to pull out the phone to show someone a picture or something, and there's a layer of dust between the screen and screen protector, even though I just cleaned the damn thing that morning.
Now I'm looking for a case that's water-tight with the backbone of an Otterbox.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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May 25, 2015 - 07:43am PT
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My Lifeproof box has worked fine for 2 years for me on my 5s!
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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May 25, 2015 - 07:44am PT
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I'm in this market too. Recently switched to the iPhone 6 for the fantastic camera.
I got the leather wallet which is nice for town usage.
Looking for a good minimalistic case that is grippy not slippy so I can do selfies on the third pitch of Whodunnit? without dropping it.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - May 25, 2015 - 11:46am PT
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This is why I ask questions here! I had never heard of the catalyst case and now that is the one I'm clearly leaning toward.
I fumbled around my new, slippery, six out of pockets, hundreds of feet off the deck yesterday, and I don't want to do that any more!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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May 25, 2015 - 01:15pm PT
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I don't know if it's still as popular, but a couple of years ago flash drives with detachable (mini Fastex buckle)were popular trade show give a ways. no one in the office wanted the lanyards and I collected a bunch of them. Put them on knives, keys and phone and gave away several to climbing partners that had been subjected to the hole in the pocket disappearing car key disaster.
I was really glad I had one attached to the handlebars when the bike mount assploded from the G forces associated with hitting some railroad tracks at about 20 mph.
Just for the hell of it I measured my wife's Otterbox i5 181 grams and 0.63 thick. No lanyard attachment point.
The Lifebox i5S is 147 grams and 0.45 thick with a lanyard attachment point.
The Catalyst looks like it's comparable to the Lifeproof.
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dave729
Trad climber
Western America
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May 27, 2015 - 08:29pm PT
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iPhones can't catch a break.
Todays's disaster is a text message that crashes the message app,
causing the phone to reboot(respring?) making it unusable for messages.
The owner does not have to do anything. It'll crash in your pocket
and you won't even know.
Couple fixes. Best is have a working phone send a MMS picture to bump the
'bad' text out of first place in the rendering engine of the f'ed up iphone.
Send this text at your peril (line breaks are important):
effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/37eyq3/ios_bug_causes_messages_to_crash_iphone_to_reboot/?ref=search_posts
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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May 27, 2015 - 11:06pm PT
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Lifeproof. Completely waterproof - I've taken calls in the shower, dunked it in a pitcher of a beer, etc. Eventually the rubber will fail around the edges on the front, and you can just replace that front panel. Only real gripe is the headphone adapter jack and the narrow slot for the bottom port, but these are no big deal to work around. LifeProof all the way. Just don't accidentally buy a counterfeit.
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