Classic(aluminium or leather) cases make the protected handheld significantly thicker while offering excellent protection. Silicone cases came up a few years ago and followed a different metaphor: be unobtrusive first, and then offer as much protection as you can. Proporta sent us a sample of their silicone case for the Treo 680(or 750) – but can it stack up?
Proporta’s products ship in big envelopes using standard mail – the envelopes can get pretty fat at times, but the gadgets always made it through undamaged so far:
The silicone case itself shipped in a small box:
That box contained even more protective material. The case was stuffed with a belt clip and a wrist strap – Proporta has a good tradition of enclosing loads of accessories:
Fitting the Treo 680 into the case is a bit difficult as it’s really ‘tight’. I found it easiest to slide the 680 in from the bottom:
The case itself fits the Treo very well and looks cool. Accessing the keyboard and hardware buttons via the cutouts works well. The silicone has a pretty ‘rough’ surface that improves grip – this is very helpful.
Proporta included cutouts for sync/charge connector, memory card slot, status LED and volume switch. The side buttons get ‘cutout molds’, too:
The only nuisance I found in everyday use was that resetting the Treo in the case is next to impossible. However, Proporta is not to blame here – someone at Palm’s decided to leave the reset hole out…
Overall, Proporta’s engineers did a great job with their silicone case. There’s absolutely nothing negative to say about it except the reset problem- if you want a silicone case, this is the way to go! The price of about 20$ is more than justified IMHO.
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Bah, this seems to be the 750 silicon case!
This Windows flag an the OK buttons are bad for PalmOS Treos
Hi Clieler,
I noticed that too – but hey, you don’t quite see it anyways in the end =).
Best regards
Tam Hanna