Name: I tested the 14 most OVERKILL Smartphone Gadgets
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This is a smartphone, and these are the craziest, most powerful smartphone gadgets, and we're going to combine all of their powers to build the most upgraded phone you have ever seen.

Starting with the $5 phone umbrella, for when you want to keep your phone dry, but not your own body.

So it sticks to the back of your phone via suction cup, and then let's say it starts tipping it down.

The phone is, in fact, bone dry. 6 out of 10.

It does actually do its job, however dumb that job may be.

The Amaran Go is definitely a step up, though.

This thing has literally just come out, it's $29, and it actually looks amazing.

So, it's got a magnet at the back, which you snap onto the back of your phone, and that is locked in.

And then even if you're not on an iPhone, it comes with this sticky ring, so that you can attach it onto any phone, or actually anything.

That is a massive improvement to a phone's torch.

Because it's not just about sheer brightness, it's the fact that the light is spread across a bigger area, and that it's got this softening diffusion layer over it.

Which all means, if I was lighting myself with my normal phone torch, I'd look like this.

I'd have a ton of harsh lines across my face, which would add up to make me look pretty unhandsome.

But then this, this is literally a world apart.

It's so much softer, it doesn't make me look like a Disney villain, but then this is the magic trick.

The light flips up, to both use that light while you're taking selfies, but also to use the LED mirror on the back to, well, first spot the cat fluff in your hair.

This actually makes such a difference that I want to use this for every single Instagram story I take from now on.

You've got brightness control over here, you've got color temperature control over here.

The only thing that feels like it might be a touch lacking is the battery.

I mean, at the rate this thing is depleting, I think we're talking less than an hour of juice.

Still though, feels like a 9 out of 10 gadget to me.

I'm kidding, it's actually a cleaning station.

But it's pretty fascinating how it works.

So first, you take a swab of my phone before any cleaning.

I do remember reading though that your phone does hold up to 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.

So now we place that sample on the agar jelly.

And if there's significant bacteria on my phone, this is gonna look pretty gross pretty quickly.

And it actually even works when the phone has a case on it.

And then on the inside are 30 of the most powerful form of ultraviolet LEDs firing within an aluminum chamber to get full sanitizing coverage.

So swab number two, I'll do the same thing.

And so now that agar is fully impregnated.

So we'll come back to these samples at the end to see if this is a scam or a savior.

So now at $80, we've got the MagSafe suction cup.

So this is from a company called Evolved.

And when we bought it from their site, it definitely does say that the retail price is $80.

But looking at what we actually received, it's not immediately clear to me how.

Use the suction pad at the back to stick one on your bathroom mirror.

You could stick one right opposite the toilet.

But then there's a magnet here, which means that without adding anything to your iPhone, you could just snap it in place and it will hold that.

The suction is a lot more powerful than it originally seems because this is actually a pressure trigger.

When you press this mount against a wall, the trigger detects it.

And then the mount sucks out the air through this hole here to create something that pretty closely resembles a vacuum seal.

So yes, to do that, this thing also has to have a very tiny battery inside of it.

This is almost definitely the most secure method I've seen to mount a phone onto a wall.

With the extra perk of if you decided you wanted to charge your phone while it's on one of these, USB-C into here and then bam.

You know, as soon as you see like 30 back-to-back five-star reviews from people who don't seem to have a second name, yeah, this is a dropshipping site.

Which means the actual product must be from AliExpress MagSafe Suction.

For $7, actually, to be fair, I'd go as far as to say 9 out of 10.

We're already at a stage where we need this phone cage just to support all of these gadgets.

But now is where these gadgets start to get really serious because this is the ShiftCam SnapGrip Creator Kit.

So this is around $150 and it's designed to be everything you could want for your phone's camera.

And then below that in this, tell me this doesn't look at least a tiny bit sus, pouch, we've got the SnapGrip, which is the central product.

I mean, it's far from slimline, but if the goal is to make your phone feel like a DSLR camera, then that it does.

But if that's where it ended, then I would say fun idea, novelty gadget.

Where I think this gets interesting is that this SnapGrip actually uses this extra space that it's taking up for a battery.

So this is a 3200mAh cell that actually uses this MagSafe connection to not just secure itself, but also to charge your phone up.

I'd say you should expect this grip to be able to charge an iPhone 16 Pro from 0 to 50%.

Not great as far as power banks go, but a damn good bonus if you are already the kind of person who is going to get one of these anyway.

When you look at this thing, you would expect that this is locked in place and it kind of is.

I can shake this pretty confidently, but I can actually rotate it because it's a MagSafe device.

It's just quite heavy when you pair the phone and the grip.

The only downside of doing things this way is it means the grip can't be hardwired into your phone.

So this shutter button is a Bluetooth button.

There's this ever so slight delay every time you capture, which if you're into your cameras enough that you'd want to buy something like this, then you're also into your cameras enough that it will probably bother you.

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