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title: 'Treo 650 cases: Silicone vs Crystal case'
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- review
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- accessories
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<p>Today, I bought a new treo case, ie, SPE Crystal case. It made from acrylic unlike my old one, silicone. Surely, it looks more beautiful, attractive than my old one. Though it has a disadvantage either. It's slightly point that someone never think about it. I think I have to show both cases' detail. After that, go on to compare pros & cons each case. <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/compare1.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/compare2.jpg"> <p>Silicone case, <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone.jpg"> <p> I chose a color that tends to be dark to avoid changing color of silicone. For instance, white color of silicone will changes to yellow because of dirty and time. Anyway, its thickness is around 1-2 mm. When treo wore it, it makes treo safer from scratch, softer due to silicone characteristic, and surely bigger than the original. I don't think it's too big to use though. This case is designed to cover all controlling button but it's still work properly and great, I think. It provides soft feeling while using than pushing it directly. The worse of this kind of design is when your friends or someone who never used treo before want to use your treo, they will confuse what the heck button is. However, it seem not to be our problem, right? <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone_cover.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone_side.jpg"> <p> A part where it covers side and vol +, - button is another part that impressed me in the same way that it does on controlling buttons. At first, you will feel like it's pretty hard to push the button you want but when you used to push it, you will like it because it's really soft. <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone_led.jpg"> <p> One thing that I think is not a good designed is LED hole!, I don't know why they have to drill hole here because LED, light, can be seen though silicone. It's really beyond designer's expectation perhaps. I think there are several disadvantages of this kind of case, <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/bottom_edge.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/bottom_edge1.jpg"> <p> for example, because of its thickness that as same as height of keyboard button, edge of silicon below qwerty keyboard is too near to button, so it feel uncomfortable to push all this button, next it's hard to reach reset hole due to taking this case out very very hard., silicone case also keeps much more dust. esp, when you usually keep your treo in your jean pocket. <br>disassembly procedure:- <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone_disassem1.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone_disassem2.jpg"> <img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/silicone_disassem3.jpg"> <p>Pros<br>- feel soft and tight while holding <br>- silicone cover button including controlling button and side button <br>Cons<br>- silicone edge at the bottom of keyboard make you push some button uncomfortably <br>- hard to take treo in/out <br>- keep a lot of dust <br>- heat spreading out hardly -- treo gets warm easily. <p><img src="http://one.mycapsules.com/palm/review/008/crystal.jpg"> <p>SPE Crystal Case, <br> This is the most attractive case I've ever seen, actually it's not the first one but it's the first that I spend my money with. I think I really spend a lot of money on treo accesories. I don't know why either, my former palm, T2. I bought it w/o spending any penny on accessories for one first year. After that, I bought only old brand case, it's only around $2 for that and another $4 for 3 spare styli that I never used . ;P Perhaps, I consider treo as a phone, that's why it has been like this. Because I think I spend more on phone accessories, esp, case. Come back to our topic, this case, crystal case, is the newest one w/a pretty good design. It made for treo 650. That's why its shape look really cool.
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