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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- The perfect way to protect your smartphone from water and dust
- The touchscreen, camera, and Face ID are still operational when the phone is in the pouch
- The pouch adds a fair bit of bulk to a smartphone.
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The modern smartphone is quite water-resistant. Take my iPhone 17 Pro Max, which has an ingress protection (IP) rating of IP68. That 6 means it is totally dustproof (but there is a “but” that I’ll get to later), and the 8…
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