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Old 11-08-2008, 08:31 AM
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Re: Any good sites for docks and accessories yet?

FYI, here's what case NOT to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/BLACK-LEATHER-CA...713.m153.l1262

I got one because I prefer a vertical-opening style that I can rotate 90 deg. I find it easier to slide a phone out forward than to pull one up out of a horizontal case. I always feel like I'm on the verge of fumbling it in a horizontal case. Maybe I'm just clumsy.

Anyway, the case is about 1/4" too short for the TP. As a result, the magnet on the flap doesn't line up with the magnet on the case. They're close enough that the flap will stay closed, but you have to pull it to get it to reach rather than it sort of snapping itself closed, and it doesn't lay flat against the case. Would be easy to bump against something and have the flap get snagged. I emailed the seller to get a replacement, thinking she had sent the wrong one, but she said it's just a generic case. And after being told it doesn't fit, she continues to sell it as a TP/Fuze case.

I can't even use it temporarily until I find a different one, because every time I pull it out, two things happen:

(1) stylus gets ripped out

(2) some nasty crap gets smeared all over the screen that you can't get off by rubbing on your shirt. I have to take glasses cleaner and serious buffing to get it all off. I don't know if it's seam glue or what, but it makes the case unusable.

If anyone knows of a similar style case that doesn't suck, I would appreciate the info. So far I haven't seen anything else. I had a lambskin one in this style for my a900, which was really nice, but that seller isn't making them for the TP.
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