mophie - juice pack helium Charging Case for Apple® iPhone® 5 and 5s - Gunmetal Black

The helium case looks good and feels smooth. Unfortunately the case look does not last. Paint has chipped or peeled off. Casing material is soft and will dent easily from regular contact. I'm not especially hard on my electronics. This is just from pockets, laptop bag and being in the car. Pretty disappointed in the look now. The battery extender does work well. Be aware of the heating up during your replacement charge. Best to let the phone battery get to the point of red for best recharge. Last thing, I wish they made the charging compatible with the apple cable. The case isn't easy to remove if you misplaced the cable it came with and sometimes will not be recognized on my mac when i want to sync using the mophie cable. Also catches dust behind the phone.You will need a screen cover.

Great color for a woman with an external battery charger. IPhone 5s. Mophie love it.

I bought this case instead of buying an additional chargers for my house($30), a car charger($30), and a charger for my office($30). I am on my phone for work all day long and i was constantly having to plug my iphone in whenever i could to make sure my battery didn't die. After considering how much it would cost me to buy 3 additional chargers i decided to buy the case instead. I originally bought the Mophie Helium and it broke(i pulled the case apart to clean the dirt and lint off and the plastic cover that holds the electronics on the inside in came apart. I returned it to best buy and bought the Mophie Air instead. I will say that the Air is a better deal for the product you are getting. It is constructed better and the charge capacity is significantly better, my iphone will be at 10% and it will charge it back to full without an issue! The helium would charge it back to full if i turned it on at 30%-35%. For the additional $20 it will cost to get the Air rather than the Helium, it is definitely worth it but the Helium is a great product also. I would say BUY IT!

I bought this for my iPhone5 a couple of years ago. I am on my third Mophie case with the same phone. The reason being, the first case I had was dropped off the top of a bunk bed onto hard linoleum floor. The next day, the battery case came apart from the inner battery wiring, when I took the bottom piece (that houses the battery) off to plug in the iPhone cord in order to synch with iTunes. I like that the recharging port is for USB rather than the iPhone cord. I blame myself for dropping it from that height. I have dropped it plenty of other times and nothing happened other than scratches. The second Mophie case I had for about 6 months, when it melted and almost burned my fingers off when I picked it up. I contacted Mophie and sent it to them, and they sent me a new one free of charge. This one I have had for about a year now, and it has had no problems at all. It is durable, still charges, and has no real deficiencies. Though, it does get hot when you turn on the charge button, and the hole for the AUX port is too small for most headphone plugs (it comes with an adapter). Overall, I could not live without it. Later in the day, when I'm busy driving around or doing stuff, I don't have time to stop and plug my phone in to charge. The Mophie case does it for me, up to the advertised 80% every time!

As with other Mophie products it delivers exactly what is expected, it is comfortable, not too bulky, and easy to insert the phone and to take it out. My only two complaints are that the case does not come with a softer finish that would allow it to stay put in the car's dash while driving and trying to navigate using the phone. The second one is the need to use a micro USB cable instead of the regular Apple connector which means that I need to carry a different cable to the ones I already have in the car, the office, at home etc. Otherwise I think it is a solid product.

The Mophie case battery life is outstanding. I can make it through all day meetings at work, doing email off my iphone for 9 hours straight, and I don't even come close to draining my phone with the Mophie. If I forget to plug it in at night - or choose to keep it upstairs for the night - it's still charged in the morning. The only complaint I have is that it is not a "safety" case too - I really wanted a hybrid of the xtra charge and a safety case, and Mophie didn't offer that so I had to choose, and I chose the battery life. Would have been great to have had a hybrid option, though, considering I dropped my iphone 4 and it broke. The case is on the expensive side, but I suppose it's worth it to not have to worry about losing power when I need it.

This charger is probably one of the best electronic accessories I've ever purchased. For travelers, it's priceless. Not only is it a charger, it's a case for your phone as well. I have an iPhone 5 that I use it with. You no longer have to worry about trying to use or find an airport charger, electrical outlet, etc. Once you see your batter life is getting low, just flip the switch on the back and the power from the charger has it back to 100% in no time. You can also just leave it on and your power pretty much stays in the 90% - 100% range. The other thing I really like about it is you can charge it and your phone at the same time. You won't be disappointed. It really is a great charger and phone case!

I bought this case because it is the first battery case for the iPhone 5 that is available (from a reputable maker at least). The case is beautiful, as far as battery cases go, and actually doesn't weight that much. The iPhone 5 in this case weighs roughly the same as the iPhone 5 in the Otterbox defender (183g versus 179g), but looks a lot slimmer than the Otterbox. I've been using this case for about 5 days now, and so I am pleased with the overall performance. It does increase the juice by about 80%. It's also nice that the adapter was changed over to the micro-USB. This makes charging much easier. I really like the Lightning port, but my house gadgets are mostly micro-USB based, so this makes it much more convenient. What I DON'T like about the case: - there is no pass-through syncing. If you are using the case, you have to sync with iTunes wirelessly. This is a terrible idea. Other cases that are coming up (Lenmar and uNu) can pass through sync, meaning you can connect through the micro-USB/USB cable to sync with iTunes. - the case battery is only 1500 mAh. I'm sure Mophie does this for the slim factor. However, they are coming about with the 1700 mAh Air battery case in a couple of weeks. I doubt the 1700mAh will be all that much thicker. So, it just seems like a scheme for people desperate for a battery case to rush out to get the Helium, only to have to consider getting yet another case a few weeks later.