Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is apple's new leather sleeve now this one is for
the iphone 12 mini but it's available for the 12 12 pro and 12 pro max and this was the only size
available at least locally without having to wait days for it to come in now this does come in four
different colors and again this was the only one available so this is the saddle brown color but
you also have baltic blue pink citrus and product red so again this was the only one available
locally and the other ones were basically having to ship and would take weeks to get here
now this one like i said is for the iphone 12 mini but it can come in all different sizes
and is 129 dollars so i debated even getting this it seems awful expensive but let's go
ahead and open it up it's a pretty thick package here you can see it says 129 dollars
open this up here and see what we've got so inside here is the leather sleeve itself and we'll take
a look at that in just a moment and then inside the box it says designed by apple in california
and it has a little sleeve here that comes with it so this is kind of interesting and i'm not sure if
this has been compared before but this i think is thicker for a case than for the iphone 12 box
itself so this is a box for the iphone 12 pro and it's just something i noticed nothing particularly
exciting but it's definitely thicker than the iphone 12 pro box so it's kind of weird for a case
but let's go ahead and take a look at it so inside the case itself if we pull this piece out it just
says apple one parkway cupertino california and then on the back it says the case is made
with high quality supple leather to protect your phone leather is natural and on and on
and this is actually what apple says is european leather that is specially tanned and finished so
what you'll notice is if you go to their website and you look up the leather case for example
that i have here on the iphone 12 mini this does not say that it's european leather it just says
that it's leather however if you look up the wallet it does say that it's european leather so
the feel is very similar to the leather wallet for example as far as the overall feel of it
and then also if you've seen one of the iphone 10 sort of flip or folio cases it's got the
same sort of feel or texture as this again if you look up the folio case for the iphone 10
it is basically or 10s max it's the same european leather so it's very similar in texture to that
so it feels very high quality inside it looks like you've got sort of a protective layer there and
we also have a sleeve inside of the wallet that is made to hold a credit card so if you have an
apple card for example this is my apple cart it's really stained from a different wallet i was using
but you can slide it in there and it will be protected from any magnets and it is a magsafe
case so before we put it on the iphone i have some magnet paper here and you can see we have
magsafe in it so it will attach to the phone and you can use magsafe accessories so we'll take a
look at that in a moment and the first thing is is i used to use a sleeve for my iphone for the first
iphone so when i had the original iphone i'd use this with a sleeve this isn't my original iphone
but it is a working original iphone and basically this particular iphone is one i used to protect in
a sleeve before people made a lot of cases for it and i do find it's a good way to protect it
and then still be able to feel what the phone is like to use so let me go ahead and take off the
regular leather case here and this is the black iphone 12 mini you'll see we unlock it here and
we should be able to slide it into place and let's see what it feels like as soon as we slide it in
you'll see the time displays and then it changes to the brown color to match the case
you have an opening for your microphone or your speaker rather and then your microphones
are open on the bottom so i suppose you could take a phone call with this but i'm not sure
so you can see it displays the time and it is not an always on display so it just shut off if you
tap the phone it doesn't turn on i guess if you pick it up it will turn on and show you the time
and then it matches the case i do like that touch it's really apple like now one of the interesting
things is despite this being an oled display when i pick it up here you'll see the rest of the
display is on i'm not sure why they did that with an oled display you can light up specific pixels
so they didn't have to do that but they did and then also we have this little leather strap that
goes with it so let me undo this and i thought this would be making it easier to pull the phone
out of the leather sleeve but i guess you can put it in here like this and clip it into place
it's high quality metal metal with leather and you can clip on both pieces here
and i guess i need to put the other piece on first let's do this again
so that was a little rookie mistake i suppose but fold this in on itself put this little strap here
like that and then clip down the top and it will hold it in place so now you've got a secure strap
for the leather sleeve although i don't know that everyone will want that now you can pull
the phone out from the side here like this so even if you have a different wallpaper it will still
shift to whatever the color of the case is so if you have a red case or a blue case it will
shift to that color so that's kind of interesting now you could use the wallet accessory with it i
suppose so if we clip it into place here you'll see it sticks to the back although it doesn't
have that piece in the bottom that will keep it from rotating so you see down here you can see
a little bit of a magnet or something there but it's not strong enough to keep the leather case
from keeping the wallet case rotating like you get with the back of an iphone 12 mini for example
like we have here you have three lines and it holds everything in place like that so it doesn't
twist so that's something to note so if we put the green iphone 12 mini in place it should again
flip to that wallpaper as well or the matching screen so we'll flip it over here slide the green
one into place as soon as it locks in the color changes and now matches so it's kind of nice that
it does that i wish you could customize this make it always on you can tap the screen to turn it on
just like you could on an iphone here or you can pick it up to turn it on now on the back you have
a cut out for the lenses for the camera so it's keeping that protected and nice and safe but the
seam in the way they decided to do this is kind of interesting so if we look around the outside edge
it's very nicely stitched they did a great job and you'll see the strap holds on nice and strong
and i'm not sure who would use this regularly maybe around your wrist like that and i have
huge hands so it fits comfortably this sleeve is available for the larger size iphone 12 pro max so
i guess if you want to keep it in a sleeve and a bag or a wallet that would be really nice
and i have to say that after using these different phones for a while holding on to them without
anything on them as far as the case makes the experience much better that's my opinion so if you
do have one of these cases of course it makes it look that much nicer so if we put it in here again
it clicks into place it changes the display and then you can charge it in the case as well so
if we charge it we've got a little charging icon and it tells us there that it's charging now you
don't have to use apple's magsafe charger you can use any qi compatible wireless charger just place
the case on it make sure it's aligned properly and it will start charging now it's much easier with
magsafe since itself aligns can charge up to 12 or 15 watts depending on which phone you're using
and just makes it a little bit easier but you can use any qi compatible wireless charger if you
have one already to continue charging it through the case so it will work with those accessories
so now i'm calling myself and you can see that it says aaron zolo facetime audio
so when you call yourself whoever's calling will appear in the little window there and if i hang
up i hung up it doesn't tell me that i've missed a call but again when you call yourself it will
pop up in the window and say someone is calling so once you're receiving a call i don't see a way to
actually answer it if you're receiving a call and you're using this case you actually have to slide
the phone out to answer it and i'm surprised there's not a way to actually answer it while
it's in the sleeve i don't see a way to do that where you could just tap it or slide the display
answer the call put this up to your ear and then talk i think you should be able to do that but
for some reason you can't so again if i call myself back it's calling i can't do anything
when i'm receiving a call so again if i slide this out i can answer the call if i put this back in
the sleeve like this it seems to hang up the call so it's kind of interesting that they've decided
to do that now let me know what you think about this in the comments below i really like apple's
leather cases i think they're quality but if you don't like leather you don't have another option
either so it's kind of interesting there the stitching is really well made like i said and
it's kind of an interesting product from apple i don't particularly like the overall design myself
i don't like the strap on the bottom i'd probably remove this and just use the sleeve itself
but i think it's a great way to protect the phone and then of course you can carry a card in here
and it sort of shields it from the phone as well it's in the front where the magnets are not
so you have that option also so i think it's nice i don't know that it's worth 129 dollars
let me know what you think about that in the comments below if you're going to get
your hands on one of these cases let me know what color you're picking up as well
or if you're using a case at all i'd love to hear from you also if you'd like to get your hands on
the wallpaper i have in this video of course i'll link that in the description like i normally do
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