Using a phone without a case

I’ve always hated phone cases and swapping the one I’m using almost weekly is annoying, I’m never able to get on with any.

Most people I know have a case on their phone. I’m definitely in the minority here walking around without one. I’ve eschewed cases for the majority of my time owning smartphones.

The feel of the device, the actual metal and finish, is amazing. It feels like I’m using the thing as intended by the designers.

Also, I’m quite careful with my phones and tend to have AppleCare on them. Mostly.

I remember once, back in the iPhone 4s days (or therabouts), I proudly carried my brand new device around without a case. My wife and I were traveling across country with a friend and stopped at a fast food restaurant in West Virginia. As I stepped out of the car a large cidada landed on the index finger of my right hand, the hand holding my brand new iPhone. The iPhone I’d recently bragged to my friend about not needing a case.

The next two seconds are forever etched in my mind. I flicked my hand away, trying to get the large green bug to take off. It did, thankfully. But then to my horror I saw my phone descending toward the pavement. I reached down, grasping for it, and missed. Then I held out my foot to catch it. Success, my foot made contact. Then the phone bounced off. I tried again to stop it. Smack. My brand new phone, forever marred by its contact with the bug, now had scratches and divots in the metal. Amazingly the screen was fine.

Despite that obviously traumatic experience, that’s the worst that has happened to any phones I’ve owned. I go caseless as a badge of honor that I’ve mostly gotten away with it ever since.

Also, with phones getting ever larger, anything I can do to shrink its size in hand and pocket is welcome.

Via LJPUK.