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Mophie iPhone 5 Battery Case Arrives for $79
The Mophie iPhone 5 battery case is available today, as the Mophie Juice Pack Helium for $79.99.
Mophie is one of the best known names in iPhone battery cases, and one of the first iPhone 5 battery cases to make it to market. We expect several other iPhone 5 battery cases to arrive by the middle of the month, but this is one of the first iPhone 5 battery cases shoppers can buy.
The Mophie Juice Pack Helium is thinner and lighter than previous Mophie iPhone battery cases, and still includes a 1500 mAh battery which the company claims will deliver 80% more battery life than just the iPhone 5.
The Mophie Juice Pack Helium is the company’s new iPhone 5 battery case.
Shoppers can order the Mophie iPhone 5 battery case starting today, though the official launch isn’t until Wednesday. The Mophie Juice Pack Helium for the iPhone 5 comes in Dark Metallic (black) and Silver. The Dark Metallic model ships by February 14th, and the silver model in March.
The Mophie iPhone 5 battery case connects to the lightning port on the iPhone 5 to charge the phone, and users can then use a common MicroUSB charger to charge both the iPhone 5 and the battery case. Users can sync the iPhone 5 to a computer using a Micro USB Cable so there are few cases where they need to remove it. The back of the case includes a button to turn the battery on and off and LED lights to show the battery life left.
The Mophie iPhone 5 battery case.
The Mophie Juice Pack Helium includes cutouts for the volume buttons and directs audio forward through “forward-ported” channels that send audio at the user instead of to the side.
There is a moderately large headphone jack opening on the bottom of the case, but as we saw during our quick look at the Mophie iPhone 5 battery case, it may not fit all headphone cords. To remedy this, Mophie includes a headphone pass through cable with the case, to fit larger headphone jacks.
The Mophie iPhone 5 battery case is available direct from Mophie for $79.99 and will likely land on Amazon and at retailers like Best Buy in the coming weeks.
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- The Mophie iPhone 5 battery case.
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- The Mophie Juice Pack Helium is the company’s new iPhone 5 battery case.
Brian Pex
02/05/2013 at 10:56 am
Audio jack is huge for me. Use it in car and at work all day. The need for a pass thru cable is a deal killer. Should have made the 3.5mm extension into the case. Poor design and will likely hurt sales. I’d love this but I know it won’t work for me
Alice Pattinson
02/07/2013 at 6:00 pm
This iPhone cover is good especially now that it is thinner and lighter than the previous one and I looove the Dark Metalic one. Just one disadvantage, the headphone jack. I saw a cover with this design at MiniSuit for only $20. All in all, this is great article. Thanks for sharing Josh :)