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macDaddee · Jun 26, 2007, 02:16 AM

Does anybody know if the stores that carry the iPhone (I'm guessing cingular/att mostly) will also carry cases for the iPhone? How about screen protectors. I have an iPod and I am fearful that the iphone will be a fingerprint magnet as well so I'm looking for some protection for this min-portable computer =)

I saw a site that carries iPhone cases, looks pretty good: iQase Anybody know anything about them, ordered from them, or know of any other good ipHone accessory sites?

loveanh · Jun 26, 2007, 08:37 AM

The guy is local for me and I plan to pick one up either on Thursday or Friday night.

loveanh · Jun 26, 2007, 10:46 PM

Just picked it up tonight. I selected the brown leather "swift" case. It has a belt clip on the back. Very nice, costs $35.

suhail · Jun 27, 2007, 02:58 PM

wow!
bad photos, but I'm sure the case looks much better in real-life.

I got the SiDE it looks awesome.

hey loveanh your son is adorable!

loveanh · Jun 27, 2007, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by suhail

wow!
bad photos, but I'm sure the case looks much better in real-life.

I got the SiDE it looks awesome.

hey loveanh your son is adorable!

suhail-

sorry about the pics bro...the case in real life is indeed a lot better....it's really nice

anyone interested check out suhail's site

iQase

highly recommended!!! very nice guy

stevesnj · Jun 27, 2007, 04:08 PM

I actually bought one, a black SiDE, just got it today and its of good quality i must say. I just don't like the 'Qase' logo in bright white on the front. I will remove it promptly!

DKeithA · Jun 27, 2007, 07:09 PM

I feel absolutely no need to buy or use a case for my iPhone. Cases ruin the iPod experience for me, and I'm sure the same applies to iPhone. I've never dropped my iPod - cases just get in the way.

stevesnj · Jun 27, 2007, 07:15 PM

Well since no one offers accidental loss/damage insurance yet, $35 seems like a cheap protection plan to me. I hope you never drop the iPhone but thats a 5 or 6 hundred dollar gamble i don't want to take.

icruise · Jun 28, 2007, 09:12 AM

I've never really used an iPod case either. I'm just very careful with my devices, and I've never had any problems. Still, the idea of dropping the iPhone is a little worrying.

loveanh -- Could you resize your pictures so they don't make this thread overly wide?

By the way, people might want to think about waiting a little bit before buying accessories. As I suspected, most if not all iPhone accessory makers have not actually had any access to a real iPhone, which could mean that their products have flaws they don't know about.

::maroma:: · Jun 28, 2007, 10:38 AM

BTW - what happened to the forums doing that auto resizing thing? That was a great feature.

icruise · Jun 28, 2007, 11:05 AM

It seems to have stopped working for some reason and we don't know why. As you may have noticed, there have been a few technical issues with the forums recently.

loveanh · Jun 28, 2007, 02:14 PM

sorry about the pics guys

::maroma:: · Jun 28, 2007, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by icruise

It seems to have stopped working for some reason and we don't know why. As you may have noticed, there have been a few technical issues with the forums recently.

Ahh, well I'm glad it wasn't removed purposefully.

xi_hyperon · Jun 28, 2007, 03:50 PM

Hmm... not overly thrilled with the case offerings yet. If I do end up w/ an iPhone, I'm not sure I'll even get a case anyway.

[off topic] why was the original poster banned? As far as I can see, that was his one and only post.

::maroma:: · Jun 28, 2007, 04:09 PM

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of cases, especially for Apple products. Had a case for my iPod, used it for about 2 weeks and gave it away. Its too damn beautiful to cover up like that. I've never dropped my iPod <knock on wood>, so I'm confident my iPhone will be safe in my hands. Its the people I let play with it I'm worried about.

Silky Voice of The Gorn · Jun 28, 2007, 04:22 PM

iSkin Revo FTW.
Got iPod?. Get iSkin.

icruise · Jun 28, 2007, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by xi_hyperon

[off topic] why was the original poster banned? As far as I can see, that was his one and only post.

I didn't ban him, but new posters that pretend to ask questions about a product as a way of advertising are pretty common, so he may have been a spammer. Generally, we delete the thread in question when that happens, though, and that wasn't done in this case, so I'm not sure what the situation was. In any case, I think I'm going to go ahead and close this thread and start a general iPhone accessories thread.