Hard shell case review

I got the case pictured below, and wanted to give everyone my "Impression" of it... 
Yep had to go there

I like this case about 90% of the time. It looks great, fits the phone perfectly, and it came with a screen protector, which was nice. For $10 and free shipping, I say I got a heck of a deal.

Drawbacks...

If you wear makeup, which I do, and you try to clean the face of the phone, there's about a 98% chance that you're going to wedge some of that crap between the phone and the case. If you want to really clean it, you have to take the front cover off. That's not hard to do, but a little hassle-ish. Also, if you want to get into the battery/SIM area, once again, you have to take the case off. Each time you do that, you run the risk of breaking one of the tabs that is securing it to the phone.

Texting... The top row is a little bit harder to actually use now, because this case is about 1 mm thick. Now, that may not seem like a big number, but when you're talking about cell phones, it really is. If you have short stubby hands/fingers, and "required" this phone over the xenon because of the keyboard size... you just ruined it with that 1mm. But really, after about a week of having on the phone, I actually got used to the 1mm intrusion, and now texting is just fine.

So, in conclusion... the case is still great. I got a hoo-ha of a deal. My phone still looks awesome, and now it has some pink plaid flavor.

I will probably want some different flavor in a month, and when the time comes, yep, I'll buy another hard shell in a new color/design.

Works just fine opening, though closing it is another story... It catches on the lip of the Samsung. The back of the front slider part, where the protective plastic is (unless you removed it)? Has a liitle bit of a lip, indentation, I don't know what to call it. When you slide the phone closed, it gets to that edge and stops about... 1mm from closing. Woo! Another 1mm! When you "snap" it closed, it works fine, but if you go slowly, it catches and you have to "align" them.

See, that's why I didn't want to buy the rubberized case. Every phone I have had the rubberized one on, the dust/dirt gets up between the case and the phone, and then the phone ends up all scratched up, meaning I HAVE to have some kind of cover on my phone from that point on. I've never had any problems with the hard cases doing that. Weird, huh?

Bet the reason you get dirt under the cases is becuse you are a phone pocketer *gasp*

How could you? LOL 

Do you put your task alert on vibrate?   

I ordered a hot pink rubberized hard cover, and i find that it doesn't effect the sliding function at all (which i was a little worried about, after hearing that one of the cases causes a little bit of stop unless you snapped it shut).
But i love it. I am a very clean person and so a couple weeks later after taking the cover off, there wasn't too much dust underneath. I was amazed. So it's doing it's job.
I also have a clear screen protector on it too though.

I guess i'm more of a person who usually doesn't like the added bulk to the phone, but for some reason this time around the Blue was bothering me and had to get rid of the blue color (usually my phones are black) and so yep, hot pink it is. lol.
But i love the texture of the rubberized hard case. It's soft, kind of has that silicon feel to it and it's still a hard case.
I have ordered a silicon one too, to see which i like better, but i don't think i'm going to beat this rubberized hard case. I ADORE it. I was actually quite amazed at the quality for only 5.00 & free shipping. lol.

"Snag" "Snags" "Snagging"

You mean the tabs hang/scrapes when you slide the keyboard open, or the way it clips onto the phone??


Please explain

Yep, remember the snag I was telling everyone about earlier? Well, mine never quit, but I only had my hard case on for two weeks. I took it off to try the "stickers" (vinyl skins) I posted another review about, and my phone now has a slight wobble to it, too. Not major, mind you, but not something I adore either. Luckily, I took mine off within two weeks, but there's always that chance that someone else is going to have the same issue and not realize til its too late.