Buying A Portective Case For Your Gadgets

By Sean Aune | Jun 23, 2008

ipod touch case Once you’ve gone out and bought an iPod Touch or a BlackBerry, what are you going to do to keep your expensive new toy from being damaged?

While some gadgets, such as the afore mentioned BlackBerry, come with a manufacturer issued carrying case, they are usually cheap and useless. In situations such as the iPod Touch, they come with nothing, so it is up to you to find anything to protect it from the get go. No matter what the gadget is, you should defintely take it’s physical protection into mind when purchasing it.

So, what do you look for in a case? For me there are two big factors: accessability to the gadget’s functions and the ability to carry it on my belt. In the case of my iPod Touch, I went with a clear hard platic case from Griffin. Though it didn’t have the belt clip I usually like, I liked how it thickened up the device, giving me more to grip, and it also gave me full access to the screen and all of the buttons.

In the case of my BlackBerry 8830, I went with a case that covered the keyboard, thinking it would do a good job of keeping them clean, which it does, but it also makes it fairly difficult to type. I am sadly going to have to buy another case because I chose poorly, so my lesson is learned to ponder all aspects of the case before I purchase. The new one I am looking into has no key obstruction at all, and has the belt clip I like, so hopefully it will work.

In picking yours, set your own criteria, and then if you are still unsure, search via Google for the name of the case and see what people are saying about it on message boards. If the case is bad, there are sure to be some comments left out there as to why it doesn’t work well.