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Lightweight magnesium alloys are used to make the front-end carrier and cross-car beam, while the tailgate is made from advanced composite materials.

Buttons are fantastic just as they are on most TPU cases, and the cutouts are nothing noteworthy either, which is good. The lanyard holder that Ringke seems so attached to is present here as well, but let’s be real: you’re not going to use it. Branding is practically invisible (a slight ‘Ringke’ branding on the right side). The makings of a great case are all here.

In a Land Rover-first, the Terrain Response systems are accessed not through a dedicated controller but using the driver’s reconfigurable infotainment system rotary controller, or directly through the touchscreen itself. This intelligent system integration contributes to the clean, uncluttered design of the center console.

The room is about three thousand square feet, though its outsized reputation has led it to be described as “cavernous.” It ends in a glass wall, behind which stand three eight-foot-high computer-numerical-control (C.N.C.) milling machines that shape plastic and metal to produce models and prototype parts. When Ive designed the space, at the turn of the century, he wanted these machines to be as integrated into the studio as noise and dust pollution allowed. “They make physical objects, and that is what we’re doing,” he told me. Milling machines help turn a studio into a workshop; they reinforce Ive’s view that bad industrial design often starts in ignorance of what a material can and cannot do.

The Liquid Crystal is a well-made case for the most part. Buttons are among the best I’ve pressed; cutouts for the charging port, fingerprint sensor, and camera are accurate; and the TPU material feels nice in the hand. The Air Cushion technology traps a little bit of air in each corner to allow for less abrasive impacts. How do you know it’s called Air Cushion technology, you ask? Because Spigen felt the need to put it on the top of the case in large white lettering, which absolutely should not be there on a clear case. Sure, if you have a panda Pixel 2 XL, you might not be able to see it as well, but it’s definitely there. There’s some more ‘Designed in Irvine, California – Made in South Korea’ text on the right side. You’re getting a little too talkative, Spigen.

The job of sanding a helmet shell is not pleasant, so Nolan uses robots for this task. The shells are sanded before painting to prepare a good surface that will allow the paint to adhere properly.

If you’re looking for protection and relatively good looks on a budget, you may be considering Caseology’s Legion to install on your shiny new Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL. Like its very noble-sounding name suggests, it’s a strong, protective case. It’s also pretty good-looking, though it isn’t without a few minor flaws.

To cross-check, we also ran the PassMark 9.0 benchmark suite on both versions. There, the 8650U-based machine still clocked the, as of June 2018, highest score we’ve ever recorded at RuggedPCReview.com, although outscoring recent high-end Kaby Lake-based products by less of a margin.

I was walking around with Richard Howarth and Julian Hönig; they stared, slightly dazed, at people handling objects that only they had handled for years. When a product demonstrator gave me his pitch, they interrupted with design footnotes. “The materials in this thing are insane,” Howarth said. People, he noted, were saying that the watch’s face was made of “sapphire glass”: “It’s not glass, it’s sapphire crystal—completely different structure. And then the stainless steel is super-hardened. And the zirconia ceramic on the back is co-finished with sapphire as well.” He added, “This would cost so much money if a different company was making it—Rolex or something. It would be a hundred grand or something.”

This time around, I was sent several white backs, black glass covers, and orange ‘G’ logos. As someone who bought the black Pixel 2 XL only because the panda one had delayed shipping times, I was pleased that dbrand decided to send what is essentially a panda transformation kit along. I’m not going to lie – I did go through one skin because I thought I knew what I was going, but after watching dbrand’s video guide, I got the skins on. It’s still a little tough to install them since you have to line everything up perfectly, but the result is rewarding.

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