Booq Cobra Squeeze

STANDING ROOM ONLY.

YOU KNOW A bag’s getting a bit on in its years when the dedicated phone pocket can’t fit your current plus-sized smartphone — as was the case with the 3-year-old Booq Cobra Squeeze, which couldn’t accommodate our Galaxy Note 8. Admittedly, the Note was able to ‘squeeze’ in (sorry) when we took its case off, but we prefer to keep our thousand dollar devices fully clothed as much as possible.

There are plenty of other pockets where you can keep your mobile devices and other easy-access items on the Cobra Squeeze, including a zippered vertical pocket on the front — although this one lacks the plush lining found in the dedicated phone pocket.

We don’t know if Booq was being a bit tongue-in-cheek when it called this bag the Cobra ‘Squeeze’, but things actually are a bit of a tight fit. Despite its size, it can only hold 12.9L worth of stuff. The laptop sleeve is designed to fit a 15.4-inch laptop, but the top of our 15-inch MacBook was butting heads with the top of the backpack — so much so that an SD card sticking out of the MacBook was in danger of getting snapped off.