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- Users operating their phones in the most extreme environmental conditions may find themselves required to use crazy-safe cases like this.
- Explosion-proof cases don’t just protect your phone but keep the phone itself from setting off an explosion.
- That protection doesn’t come cheap, with cases selling for much more than the phone itself.
The pics you see above were shared by user sjeik_yerbouti on Reddit, who reports that his brother is required to have this level of protection when operating his phone on an offshore rig. The preposterously robust design appears to be Atexxo’s EX Zone 1 explosion-proof case for the iPhone 13. More than just encasing the handset in more aluminum than probably many phones themselves are made with, installing the EX Zone 1 involves adding additional circuitry designed to prevent dangerous electrical conditions. Once it’s fully in place, though, even stuff like wireless charging should work like normal.
What’s protection like this going to cost you? We don’t know about this particular case, but we found another with the same flammable-environment safety ratings going for nearly $2,900 — and you still have to send in your phone for them to install it. Maybe that Otterbox is good enough, after all?
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