Smartphone case
So, er, it occurs to me that this might be another sort of "flist knows all yays" needs. So:
I have a smartphone (iPhone, I think it's either 2 or 3) and am looking for a case for it since my current case is sort of broken and the phone is being held in with hair ties lolz. Now, iPhone cases are everywhere, obviously, but:
For mobility and safety reasons I need to have my phone basically tethered to me. Which means the case needs to have some sort of clip or ring or something, not just a smooth surface.
My current (broken) case was the only one I could find with a belt clip, and I have a large metal ring in the belt clip and a lanyard + carabiner setup threaded through a loop on my belt and attached to said ring. When I am not using the phone, it dangles at my side. When I need to use it, I pull it up by the lanyard until it is where I can reach it.
But there were two problems. One, I was a little uncertain at first that the phone might decide to unclip itself from the metal ring while it was dangling. The case was designed to sit neatly on a belt, except that I wasn't using it on a belt. And two, the case was designed to have the phone facing inward and then removed for use. I never want to have the phone loose, so I had it facing outward, which means that the camera was unusable. (I could get around that by taking the phone out of the case, but then there was a risk of dropping it and also the thing I wanted to photograph was usually gone by that point.)
So generally it was not an ideal situation, but literally every case I can find is either a) is just a protective skin with no mechanism for attaching to anything, or b) is a clunky ugly belt holster of the face-inwards-and-take-out-for-use sort. All I want is, like, something with a solid loop attached to the top or back (or wherever) that I can clip a lanyard to.
Halp?
Cross-posted between DW (here) and LJ. Comments welcome in either place; DW has
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I have a smartphone (iPhone, I think it's either 2 or 3) and am looking for a case for it since my current case is sort of broken and the phone is being held in with hair ties lolz. Now, iPhone cases are everywhere, obviously, but:
For mobility and safety reasons I need to have my phone basically tethered to me. Which means the case needs to have some sort of clip or ring or something, not just a smooth surface.
My current (broken) case was the only one I could find with a belt clip, and I have a large metal ring in the belt clip and a lanyard + carabiner setup threaded through a loop on my belt and attached to said ring. When I am not using the phone, it dangles at my side. When I need to use it, I pull it up by the lanyard until it is where I can reach it.
But there were two problems. One, I was a little uncertain at first that the phone might decide to unclip itself from the metal ring while it was dangling. The case was designed to sit neatly on a belt, except that I wasn't using it on a belt. And two, the case was designed to have the phone facing inward and then removed for use. I never want to have the phone loose, so I had it facing outward, which means that the camera was unusable. (I could get around that by taking the phone out of the case, but then there was a risk of dropping it and also the thing I wanted to photograph was usually gone by that point.)
So generally it was not an ideal situation, but literally every case I can find is either a) is just a protective skin with no mechanism for attaching to anything, or b) is a clunky ugly belt holster of the face-inwards-and-take-out-for-use sort. All I want is, like, something with a solid loop attached to the top or back (or wherever) that I can clip a lanyard to.
Halp?
Cross-posted between DW (here) and LJ. Comments welcome in either place; DW has
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