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Nazo
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Ok, so I'm a bit paranoid. Working in retail, I've seen multiple phones with cracked screens literally in a day. What's more, I used to have an iPaq h1945, which is as close as a PDA of that time came to this sort of profile (eg thin and all) and I always kept it in a thin case in my pocket that used cardboard on the insides and even though I took good care of it, I got on my break on a day when I hadn't been lifting anything or working on anything tough and when I took it out of my pocket and the case, the screen was thoroughly busted (as in the liquid in the screen had leaked around a bit even.) Up until now I've been using an Otterbox complete with belt clip. I removed the actual clip part (but glued the other piece in so it wouldn't come loose) thus giving me a hard surface on one side. This works really well in my pocket, but when I actually USE the phone, I have something that's about four times as thick as my phone (which is, after all, one of the thinner phones on the market, but with the Otterbox it's at least as thick as my old LG Chocolate 3 clamshell phone was when closed...)
This is very unwieldy and uncomfortable to say the very least... So, I'm ditching the Otterbox. I've just had it. I can't play games as it is (it's not just the controls, it has THREE layers of insulation on the back, so all of the heat generated by the device must escape through the glass in the front, and glass is a pretty serious thermal insulator, so this tells you just how bad it is... I'm really worried of my phone overheating just running even simple games.) I have a really nice flip lid (instead of a thick back part it replaces the back cover, so the only extra thickness added is the front cover which is probably about 1.5 millimeters from what I could tell -- two at the most) coming in to protect the front of the screen from scratches (as well as screen protectors to do both that and, more importantly, to deal with fingerprints better) and in the meantime I'm going to try to not keep it in my pocket as much at least, but from time to time it will be necessary.
What I'd like to find is some sort of hard plastic case I could put the phone into when I keep it in my pocket. Well, I don't care if it's as thick as an Otterbox, but much beyond that might be a problem (it has to stay in my pocket for long periods of time when I do use it like that after all and I need to carry other small things in there with it.) If it's too thick I'll just throw in a microfiber towel cut to fit or something to make up the thickness and keep it from bouncing around (it doesn't get hot just idling in my pocket really.) Unfortunately, I'm not having a lot of luck finding something that's actually hard. The problem is, because most of these cases (even some of those with plastic) are kind of flexible under the right circumstances it allows strain on the device. By comparison, what I really liked about the belt clip part of the Otterbox was that it was a very solid and unyielding plastic. So what I'd like to find is something that uses a hard plastic that isn't flexible that I could slide my phone into or, at the worst, some kind of case I could close up on it. Preferably something easy enough to get the phone into and out of quickly enough if I have a call, but even if I have to call them back it would be better than not being able to call them back because my very expensive phone is broken... I thought about maybe a portable harddrive case as those seem to be fairly tough, but all I tried were too short and a bit excessively thick anyway.
Anyone have any thoughts on some sort of case that might not be too thick or too tall/wide at least? A little leeway is fine (after all I had that super-thick Otterbox + cover in my pocket which was actually about 3/4 of an inch) but it has to be reasonable which still eliminates a lot of the things I could come up with. It's ok if I have to do a little modification by cutting something or adding velcro to hold it though (for example, I kind of thought of modifying one of those harddrive cases to use velcro to hold together instead of a zipper before I found out that the phone definitely wouldn't fit) and I have no problem breaking out the rotary tool on a whim even (the only dust on it is metal, glass, and wood dust from use!) but ideally I'd like to keep it pretty simple.
This is very unwieldy and uncomfortable to say the very least... So, I'm ditching the Otterbox. I've just had it. I can't play games as it is (it's not just the controls, it has THREE layers of insulation on the back, so all of the heat generated by the device must escape through the glass in the front, and glass is a pretty serious thermal insulator, so this tells you just how bad it is... I'm really worried of my phone overheating just running even simple games.) I have a really nice flip lid (instead of a thick back part it replaces the back cover, so the only extra thickness added is the front cover which is probably about 1.5 millimeters from what I could tell -- two at the most) coming in to protect the front of the screen from scratches (as well as screen protectors to do both that and, more importantly, to deal with fingerprints better) and in the meantime I'm going to try to not keep it in my pocket as much at least, but from time to time it will be necessary.
What I'd like to find is some sort of hard plastic case I could put the phone into when I keep it in my pocket. Well, I don't care if it's as thick as an Otterbox, but much beyond that might be a problem (it has to stay in my pocket for long periods of time when I do use it like that after all and I need to carry other small things in there with it.) If it's too thick I'll just throw in a microfiber towel cut to fit or something to make up the thickness and keep it from bouncing around (it doesn't get hot just idling in my pocket really.) Unfortunately, I'm not having a lot of luck finding something that's actually hard. The problem is, because most of these cases (even some of those with plastic) are kind of flexible under the right circumstances it allows strain on the device. By comparison, what I really liked about the belt clip part of the Otterbox was that it was a very solid and unyielding plastic. So what I'd like to find is something that uses a hard plastic that isn't flexible that I could slide my phone into or, at the worst, some kind of case I could close up on it. Preferably something easy enough to get the phone into and out of quickly enough if I have a call, but even if I have to call them back it would be better than not being able to call them back because my very expensive phone is broken... I thought about maybe a portable harddrive case as those seem to be fairly tough, but all I tried were too short and a bit excessively thick anyway.
Anyone have any thoughts on some sort of case that might not be too thick or too tall/wide at least? A little leeway is fine (after all I had that super-thick Otterbox + cover in my pocket which was actually about 3/4 of an inch) but it has to be reasonable which still eliminates a lot of the things I could come up with. It's ok if I have to do a little modification by cutting something or adding velcro to hold it though (for example, I kind of thought of modifying one of those harddrive cases to use velcro to hold together instead of a zipper before I found out that the phone definitely wouldn't fit) and I have no problem breaking out the rotary tool on a whim even (the only dust on it is metal, glass, and wood dust from use!) but ideally I'd like to keep it pretty simple.
