Users always want more from their iPhone 5, so why wait for the next Apple release? iExpander is one of the most useful accessories for iPhone 5, awarding the device with boosted camera, storage and battery life. Like many tech pundits today, we’ve too been taken by the iExpander’s features and we wanted to see for ourselves if the accessory really lives up to the promise.
What we love most about the design concept of many iPhone 5 battery cases is the functionality. Multifunctional cases that manage to keep it tight and clean are more and more common nowadays, although for the most part the visual aspect could use improvement. iExpander is a multifunctional accessory that power-boosts iPhone 5 power, storage and camera performance. It really looks like the kind of iPhone accessory everybody should have.
What we love most about the design concept of many iPhone 5 battery cases is the functionality. Multifunctional cases that manage to keep it tight and clean are more and more common nowadays, although for the most part the visual aspect could use improvement. iExpander is a multifunctional accessory that power-boosts iPhone 5 power, storage and camera performance. It really looks like the kind of iPhone accessory everybody should have.
iExpander is going to make it a lot more fun and easy to actually transform iPhone 5 in your best friend. The accessory is equipped with a microSD card slot that expands the storage ability of your iPhone to another 64GB. There’s even an app that makes it all the more convenient to transferm files from your iPhone to the microSD card in the iExpander.
The 8MP iSight camera on iPhone 5 is good enough, but only in the right light, which is rarely the case. In low light, the camera performs just like any other mobile camera. Not well enough. The iExpander’s ability to improve the camera performance is “At the heart of the iExpander is an ultra-thin CAP-XX supercapacitor, driving a powerful LED flash, and delivering far more light energy than is possible with the battery alone” reads developers’ summary. “The result is crisp photographs and outstanding videos in low light”.
iExpander does all that and doubles your iPhone 5’s battery life. The case contains the same Li-polymer battery Apple put in the iPhone, so you will have another five hours for emergencies. You can see the battery power indicator right next to the iPhone’s, in the right corner of the screen, after the time. Since the device is designed to work directly with Apple’s Lightning port, there’s no need for an USB to Lightning cable.
There are two caveats however when it comes to this awesome iPhone 5 battery case, storage and camera enhancer: it is just a prototype and it’s not the thinnest case we’ve seen. In fact, it’s going to double your iPhone’s “waist”. The iExpander battery case for iPhone 5 adds another 6.3 mm to your iPhone. On the overall, it doesn’t look all that bad, but it’s iPhone 5’s slimness users would love to have with extra battery life.
The iPhone 5 iExpander is a prototype and is still in the project funding phase, but you can apply your pledge and preorder a model. Within the first two weeks on Kickstarter, the iExpander project raised $40,000. The goal is $125,000.
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