Pelican Takes Aim at Protecting Your Personal Electronic Devices

Total Score:  (Hardback)8.5 - GREAT : (Micro)7.92 - GOOD

Introduction: How many of you have dropped your cell phones in the water while fishing? How many of you have done this more than once? Do you have the need to take your notebook computer with you on the boat or into conditions where you are likely to encounter rain? Water is to personal electronics as kryptonite is to one of our favorite superheroes, but where lead is an effective means to shield Superman from the harmful effects his home planet meteor rock, where is the protective shielding for our cell phones and notebook computers? Pelican has the answer with their i1015 Micro-Case and HardBack 1090 notebook case.

A TT Editor's work is never done - especially out on the water.

Impressions: Anyone who has seen the TackleTour crew in action during ICAST, on a travel assignment, or at any of the consumer fishing tackle shows knows we don't travel far without our Pelican 1510 series roll away cases to protect our camera equipment. In fact, I have two of these cases to hold the majority of my camera gear and am thinking about a third or one of the larger cases.

Thanks to Pelican, we can now keep our personal electronic devices safe.

Pelican has been in business for nearly forty years making cases to help professionals in a variety of markets protect their gear. Their cases are used by everyone from firefighters to policemen, to people in the military and aerospace, and of course to those in the photo and film industries and more. They have a strong reputation for building solid, virtually indestructible, cases to protect all kinds of valuable equipment from the elements and providing safe ways to store this equipment during transport.

Yes, that means our cell phones too.

Earlier this year, we learned of a couple more broader market products built to protect two items near and dear to many a consumer, their iPhones and notebooks. Could a company so used to servicing demanding professions build products suitable for the everyday consumer? Let's find out.

Our recent trip on the water with Vince Borges provided the perfect opportunity to test the new cases from Pelican.

HardBack 1090: First up is Pelican's new notebook computer case. They offer this case in several different sizes. The specific model we tested is the 1090 HardBack case. This model is built to house notebook computers up to fifteen inches in size. This is the physical size restriction of the case measuring 15 x 11.32 x 1.92 inches on the inside.