Additional Thoughts:
You either LIKE a belt-clip/loop case or you don't. Personally find that SOMETIMES a belt clip is handy, but mostly NOT - and the attachment that is so handy for clipping to a belt tends to add substantial girth when trying to carry a case within a coat or pants pocket.
You can find cases with clips that can be removed, sometimes to a flat surface, although more often a raised area remains (there has to be some mechanism for holding the clasp on after all).
Have also read of complaints about the "temporary" clips being less than secure. (The one on my RhinoSkin will unscrew itself eventually - but it is seldom in place: alas, there is a permanently raised receptacle for it on the back of the case....)
Am currently using a cheap / inexpensive case by Bytech: around $6, looks OK, sold for a Nokia N95, but in a package that claims "Fits most Small Size Phones."
This would work well for my wife's Shine - slightly too wide, but not by much - and she may well end up with it (would protect phone while rattling around in her purse).
Again, For The Price, was pleasantly surprised by the Bytech: but after a couple weeks usage have found that if I place the Fuze in a certain orientation there is a 'ridge' within the case that catches the screen protector, which is now permanently bent in the lower R corner, and has an additional crinkle about 40% of the way up. I could not figure out how that happened, but apparently my wife's fingers are more senstive & SHE found a couple of interior ridges.
Anyway, knew that the Bytech was not a "Permanent" solution, and at $6 it is hard to get Really Upset - but was hoping to put off an additional case searching for a longer period of time....
So: what to do????
Saw a
Possible Solution sometime last week in a YOUTUBE video: a leather case demonstrated by gaugau.jp.
Turns out the case is from
Capdase, and is just now becoming available on sites that are NOT written in Japanese (!): both Xell Telecom, and an Ebay vendor (from Hong Kong, per memory).
As yet, have no idea whether this is indeed a "Good" case: it certainly LOOKS intriguing, but could be poorly made or simply not workable in the 'real world.'
Like the Noreve, it leaves the top & bottom (and most of one side) open to the elements, instead of large 'fingers' it uses what amounts to 1/2 (the bottom half) of a snap-on case to hold the Fuze: the leather portion is attached to this snap-on unit and then wraps around the device. (This connection points seems likely to be the weak spot.) This case does not feature a belt clip.
Look for Capdase Leather Bifold for HTC Touch Pro - or at the "What's New" listings at xell.com; around $30 or so.
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Another interesting case is the Carrymobile, which actually appears to provide full wrap-around coverage, but at the expense of leaving the keyboard in a (relatively) deep well that seems likely to interfere with a greater number of keys than the Noreve case. The Carrymobile also has a funky Double Front Flap arrangement that covers the screen but leaves the lower front buttons always exposed. (Why?)
Around $25 - 30, or a bit more with S&H.
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Once again, just thinking out loud; but if anyone has any experience with a Capdase leather case (for Touch Pro / Fuze or otherwise), what was / is your impression?
And Ditto for any other alternative, especially any that we have overlooked.....
Merry Almost Christmas!
