Using a smartphone with a case feels strange to some people– it’s hard to find people who don’t cover up their smartphones with a protective case. In 2021, smartphones have very fragile bodies enclosed mainly in glass that doesn’t really inspire confidence in their durability. This kind of phone design is mainly used to enable features like wireless charging, making phones slippery and more prone to breakage. Even if you have a plastic or a metal phone, dropping it on its corner almost always results in the display cracking up.
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Holding your phone commando may not be the best of ideas as they come at a hefty price. It’s clear that you paid a pretty penny for it and want to keep it working and looking good, even if it means hiding the very design or colorway that attracted you to the phone in the first place.
But there’s also another school of thought. Why should the responsibility of making phones last without damage be on consumers rather than phone makers who make the devices? I have sometimes pondered carrying my phone without a case, but I find myself throwing on a case back on before I get out of my house.
With strong arguments both for and against the use of cases on phones, we thought of asking you, our Techjaja readers, what you would do if you had a choice. Would you ever use your smartphone without a case? Let’s get polling.
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