Hi this is Trevor with LeatherWallets.org in this video we're looking at the Flipside Four wallet. This wallet I bought off Amazon. It is made in the USA so if that is important to you, this is a good product. Let's go ahead and take a look at it. This is how it comes. We'll get this white box with the product and then an operators/user's manual. Not a lot of wallets come with user's manual. This back panel here you see you have a rubber band. This can be used for things like business cards, extra cash anything that you want to store back here. You can go ahead and slide under that flat rubber band. If you don't want to use this. This band is removable. So you can take that off and not use it.
And here's the wallet itself. Plastic casing, and it's flip open. Press this button down and you see it opens. We have spots for cards here and here. Three cards will fit in each of those pockets/slots and then as we flip this over we've got a single slot here and then this flap which can be used for cash, extra cards, things like that. The warranty on this. It's a two year warranty that covers the locking mechanism and the hinge. It does lock pretty securely when you close it. Provides positive feedback - a good click they're for you to know when it's opened. Let's go ahead and test the capacity.
So as I said each of these and it's pretty tight. These aren't going to slide out. It's a pretty firm grip. Throw three in this pocket and then flip this guy over. You've got these tabs here to flip it over and you can put an ID there so you can easily show your ID. Let's throw some bills in here so, put five bills. And we're just going to slide it open like that and fold it over. Close it up. Go ahead and sift through your money that way. Your I.D. It's pretty slick. And we can put a bunch of bills here. So we've got five. Let's check. Double it to 10 for that fits fine. No issues closing it. Jump this up another five more. 15 bills. It is getting a little bit tight now. Fitting 15 in there. Its got a little flex 15 is going to be probably your max. You wouldn't be able to fold it double. I would worry about breaking that flap off if you do. 15 bills 7 cards. Don't forget, if you need extra space you can add this piece here. It just clips onto the back just like so. You have got that rubber band so you throw extra stuff right there.
I like this wallet. It's crush-proof. It has some water resistance. Laying flat, it's going to be hard for water to get in there. We will test that. We're going to take this outside and get it wet to see how resistant to water it is. It's made in USA. It is a hard plastic so it's not going to be that comfortable to sit on. Verse something that has some give like leather but overall it's nice, the operations on it there's no wiggle. Everything looks fine. It's pretty light. Let's go ahead and check the weight on this guy. 72 grams. So about the same weight as one of the Hanks Belts money clip wallet that we tested.
Looks good so it's got RFID protection. Let's go ahead and test that. Remember that with RFID there are two frequencies. When wallet companies state RFID blocking they're typically talking about 13.56mHz. Here's a credit card that is 13.56mHz. Most credit cards are, I'd say all credit cards and smart cards are 13.56. It should be RFID blocking in any pocket. So we'll just throw it in that pocket there. Get out our guy here. I don't get any scan. Awesome. Let's test it in this pocket. Nothing there. And then finally we're going to test this single slot. Card can't fit in there. Yeah that's good. This pocket is supposed to be RFID blocking also. But because I have my card wrapped in this tape it makes it a little bit thicker than a normal card. It does scan. So this pocket is not RFID protected. If I remember right from the instructions let's double check that here.
You can see there, "single card slot can hold just one card and is perfect for license ID single card slot rest against a shielded plate. So it also prevents RFID scanning." In my tests it does not. A card stuck in there, it's pretty much in there, I don't have it under this flap over here. But, for the most part it's there. This is a fully closed. No scanning that time. Does it make a difference if its turned over? It's not scanning this time. Inconsistent results. Back on this side all the way in that pocket there, nothing. Inconsistent results on that one. This is the 13.56mHz. Let's go ahead and test this against the 125 kilohertz card here. This is a proxyimity card. So we've got our testing box here. Turn that on and you see it works. This has a much longer reading range than 13.56. I've stuck that in this back pocket here. Go ahead and see if it reads. Nothing there. That's good. Set it in the other pocket. Nothing there. Then lets just lay it in this back section here which does read . In these two pocket you can see it successfully blocks the transmission, but not in either of these two pockets. This is the first wallets I've tested that can actually block 125 kilohertz. So if you're looking for that if you're building using these proximity cards and you want a wallet that will block anyone from reading those. This flip side wallet made in the USA, Flipside four wallet. We'll do that.
We've tested the capacity cards, cash. We've tested RFID. We looked at the build. Next we're going to test the water resistance. How we're going to do that? We're going to take some of these stickers here. These are the types of stickers that you normally find in electronics that turn color once they've come in contact with water. We're going to take a bunch of those stickers put them on cards, put the cards in the wallets. Take it outside and spray it with water. Try to simulate a light misting up to a shower and then if it does all that we will go for submersing it. This wallet does not have an IP rating. So there's no guarantees put from the company on how much water resistance this will provide. But because of what it is, it should provide at least some water resistance depending on how it is sitting. We're going to test that out next.
We are outside, in my backyard we have all the wallets set up. We're going to do the water test. Each of them have a card like this in it that has these little dots that turn colors, you can see they turn red when water hits it. On the backside else have some tissue paper taped to it, so we can use that as an indicator as well. So let's get started. All right. Test one light spritz.
Well we're back from our simulated rain shower. We're with the Flipside. Let's see how it did. We can still see some water pooled up there. Let's open this guy up. We've got this bottom, I put two cards in this wallet. Ah, you can see nothing tripped there. How about this one. The tissue paper looks fine. No issues with that. A little moisture right there on the end. If the camera can focus. Here we go. Tissue paper looks fine. All right let's pull out this card. Again, none of those indicators tripped and tissue paper - it's not currently wet. It does have some bubbles like it got a little moisture in it. Let's check out. I don't see any other moisture inside. I'm saying it passed, which is pretty cool for the Flipside 4 wallet. This wallet is not listed as being water resistant, but during our rain test it proved that it did keep the contents dry.
The Flipside wallet did so well in the raindrop test. I figure, let's try a dunk test. So we've got a card here with no indications that it's been wet and the tissue paper looks good. So we're just going to throw it in this pocket here. Close it up. Basically this is you walking down next to the stream and you fall in. So we're just going to drop it in or push it in, pull it back out and then check out the card. All right you ready? Oh crap. Oh my wallet. Uh-oh, that doesn't look good.
All right. Let's check it out. So remember the Flipside wallet does not state any water resistance on it, so it's highly unlikely that it's going to pass this test. But let's flip this guy open. It did not pass. You can see we got water on the inside. We've got two of the indicators that blew off and our tissue paper is totally soaked. It did well up until the dunk test.
Again this is made in the USA. So if that's important to you this is a great wallet. It has RFID blocking, we blocked both 13.56 megahertz as well as one 125 kilohertz. Two year warranty on the locking mechanism as well as the hinge. And that's it. I don't know what else to say. This is a pretty cool option, not something I want to sit on, but if you keep your money in your front pocket, and are looking for something that may give you a little bit more protection. Check out the Flipside wallet. Make sure you check the website LeatherWallets.org as well as the other videos that we have on YouTube. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, make sure you let me know. Thanks so much. Goodbye.
