Awhile back I mentioned that I was looking for a good iPhone 3G Case to protect my iPhone:
Since then I have bought a few of them just to see what suited me best.
A couple weeks back I was in the Apple Store looking at cases again and a salesperson recommended the Speck PixelSkin. Even though he didn't have an iPhone 3G because he had to wait for his current contract to expire, he said that you cannot go wrong with rubber as a way to protect your iPhone. He mentioned how he thought the green case looked like a grenade and the yellow case looked like corn on the cob, etc. :)
This, of course, is when I play devil's advocate and say but won't the rubber make the phone unable to dissipate heat, etc., and he said that the only “complaint” he had received with them is that they can be difficult to get into and out of a pocket, depending on the pocket. People in tight pants may want to steer away from this one :)
Fair enough. I bought the green Speck PixelSkin iPhone 3G Rubber Case for the heck of it.
Fast forward to the other night when I am getting out of the car with my daughter in the garage and I lost my grip on the phone and it falls to the hard cement garage floor. Yep - my heart skipped a beat and all the blood rushed to my face where I was about to scold myself for being a complete idiot. Unfortunately, my daughter was there, so the expletives were confined to my thoughts. Well, maybe a few drifted out :)
To my amazement, not a scratch. The iPhone fell at least 4 feet to a cement floor. No scratch. No nick. No crack. No damage!
I don't know if it was complete luck, or if the phone happened to fall at just the right angle, or the rubber iPhone case was just that good, but the heck with all the other cases. The $25 Speck PixelSkin just saved me $300!
Now how the heck I lost my grip on a textured rubber case is beyond me!
Check it out on Amazon.
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