Otherwise, the Juice Pack Air design is standard for an iPhone case, with a passthrough Lightning port, raised front edges, bumpers for the volume and lock buttons, and a satisfying matte finish. While I liked how thin it felt for a battery case, I didn't like the trade off of having the large chin on the case. The battery bump on the Juice Pack Air is smaller than Apple's, but the reason for that is because the Mophie case has more length to it - and thus more surface area to spread out - due to the large chin on the front of the case. This creates a visible seam on the back of the case, just above the enlarged battery portion and below the camera cutout. The new Juice Pack Air continues Mophie's click-together design, where you slip your iPhone into the bottom portion of the case and snap the top half of the case to the top of your iPhone. I had no trouble with the case fitting my iPhone X or facing performance issues, so iPhone X owners interested in Mophie's new accessory don't need to worry about this side of things. I never faced any such issues with the Juice Pack Air, although its Qi hotspot was a bit more difficult to find on my Belkin charging mat, especially at night.Īlthough Mophie's Juice Pack Air for iPhone XS is not officially certified to fit the iPhone X, it functions as expected. Likewise, the Smart Battery Case can sometimes cease charging overnight when it's on a Qi mat, so that you'll wake up to only a half-charged case. This problem sees the accessory connect and re-connect to the iPhone randomly when it's being jostled in a pocket or a bag. On the plus side for the Juice Pack Air, it never faced repeated connection issues that are well known with the Smart Battery Case. on my normal usage days, and I'd go to bed with my iPhone at around 70-80 percent battery, compared to 30-50 percent battery with the Juice Pack Air. The Smart Battery Case usually died around 6 p.m. Still, in terms of all-day battery Apple's case routinely beat Mophie's in my testing. Although I found that Mophie's accessory died a bit too early in the day, my iPhone's battery was always able to make it to bedtime so I still never had to worry about finding a charging source at night, which is the entire point of battery cases. during a day of normal use, and one day when I was streaming music from my iPhone to my HomePod for a few hours in the morning, the case died at 1 p.m. On average, the Juice Pack Air lasted until 4 p.m. The Juice Pack Air has a 1,720 mAh battery, while the Smart Battery Case has two 1,369 mAh batteries that allow it to run at a higher voltage to yield a total of 10.1 Wh of energy. In regard to daily battery life, I found the Smart Battery Case and Juice Pack Air similar in terms of performance, with an edge given to Apple's case. The cases offer many of the same features as Apple's 2019 Smart Battery Case line, but there are a few key differences that I found in terms of their physical design and day-to-day usefulness. Earlier this summer, Mophie announced and launched a new line of Juice Pack Air cases for the iPhone XS and XS Max, which promise to add extra hours of battery life to your iPhone while providing drop protection.
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