Reviews written by suzyq2463

I purchased the iSkin Revo for iPhone after looking at as many cases as I could. I liked the special features of the case, and it looked really spiffy in the pictures on the iSkin site.

Unfortunately, it just didn't work for me. When it arrived, I removed everything from the packaging. The first thing I noticed was that the plastic visor was all sticky from the tape they used to keep it in the package. No problem, I washed it off using some GooGone. Then I noticed an uneven, slightly jagged crescent on the bottom of the visor. It looked like they had snapped it off its mold and damaged it.

I put the iSkin on, and while it fit fine, the top colored portion was visibly uneven. I tried pulling and rearranging the skin, but the top portion was always a little off kilter, making the overall look of the skin kind of sloppy.

The visor provides really great protection for the screen, but it's a royal pain to use. If you have it on, you can't access the touch features of the phone until you remove it. Since it's not attached to the skin, you either have to slap it on the back of the phone or stick it somewhere while you answer the phone or do whatever you need to do. This turns out to be really inconvenient. Plus the visor seems to get looser the more you use it.

The dock plug is another great piece of protection, but it, too, is inconvenient. It's a teeny piece of black rubber that is incredibly easy to misplace (believe me, I spent a half hour looking for it when I was repackaging the iSkin to send it back).

As for aesthetics, the case looks better, in my opinion, in the pictures than it does in real life. The colored portion (in my case Rah--light blue) looks kind of cheap on a $600 phone. The black rubber, while nicely textured and easy to hold, doesn't match the cool, crisp design of the iPhone. The plastic visor is as fingerprint prone as the iPhone itself, so you wind up with two things you need to wipe clean. Plus, being a female, I prefer something that looks less rugged.

I wanted to like this case, but, in the end, I decided it just wasn't for me. Maybe if iSkin tweaked some things, the case would be worth the $40 you pay for it.