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3.0 out of 5 starsGreat protection, bad for gesture navigation
Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2022
If you're looking for maximum drop protection, I have no doubt this case will do the job. It's grippy, and offers high raised sides for screen protection, too. Unfortunately these features also makes it difficult to use for me. The texture ventures ever so slightly into sand paper territory. The cutout around the USB C port at the bottom is way sharper than it needs to be. The real problem is the lip protection around the screen - It's got a bit of a curve where the top and bottom third are higher than the middle. At first I thought this was some clever engineering, but once I started using the case I quickly changed my mind. Even at the lowest point in the center, the case is a bit too high and interferes with me doing the back gesture. If I hold the top half of the phone with one hand then it gets even worse. The top and bottom lips also get in the way of me doing pull down or bottom up gestures. I've never had that happen despite using cases that don't sit flush with the screen the whole time. Perhaps the other reviewers just use navigation buttons still?