I recently picked up the Moko 360 Degree Rotating case for my Nook HD. It is a nice leather like case that covers the Nook HD well. The only spots that are really exposed are the top and bottom of the device. This does provide nice access to those areas though.
On the outside of the front cover is a small attached holder for a stylus along with the name of the company. There is an elastic band that holds the front cover shut when not using the device. On the back is the swivel which allows for the front cover travel a full 360 degrees. There is also 2 small speaker cut outs in the plastic body. One of these is covered up by the back part of the case when the cover is closed. When the case is opened it exposes the speaker hole allowing for sound to travel freely. The Nook is held in a plastic body that clips over the sides. The two sides have openings that expose the power button and the volume rocker. The back of the plastic body is wrapped in the same leather like material as the rest of the case.
Upon opening the front cover your Nook HD will turn on as the case has a magnet in it that controls power on and power off. This is a nice feature that will also move you past the lock screen when opening the case. If your lock screen is set to a pin number it will not move past this but it will power on. The front flap becomes a bit of a hindrance if you open it in portrait mode. This is due to the design as the back of the front cover is the area that creates the stand. You can push it all the way back to help get it out of the way though.
With the Nook HD setup as the case is designed it will be in landscape mode to use the stand. There are three spots to put the bottom of the device in which allow it to sit at three different angles. If you want to change to portrait mode you just rotate the Nook HD. This is very nice when you want to use the device for reading instead of watching a movie. The problem with this is that the bottom of the device does not sit in the divots as well as it does in landscape mode. So if you are using the Nook in your lap the Nook will suddenly slip and fall backward. Which makes reading a bit harder.
The over all design of the case is very nice. The material feels great in the hand and does help prevent slipping. It also seems to be very well constructed. There were no areas that looked like they would com apart. The stitching is nice looking and tight. The velvet like material is very soft and seems like it will protect the screen of the Nook very well.
My complaints about this case are the overall size that is added to the device. This is just the nature of this type of case since it needs the rotating hinge to enable the 360 rotation. I also don't really like the added piece on the front cover that holds a stylus. It looks kind of bad and seems like it was a last minute addition instead of looking for a better place for it. As mentioned earlier the divots need some work to help hold the Nook better in portrait mode.
Over all I would give this case a 3.5 out of 5 stars.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AAVEUCS/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Current price is $9.99 as of 3-2-2013.
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This isn't pretty but it's cheap and it works. I bought a hard plastic "plate stand" at a craft shop for $3, glued strips of the rubber that keeps rugs from sliding onto the bottom and trimmed them with a razor blade and then stretched a rubber band across the stand at a place where it would give rubberized "traction" to the Nook either horizontally or vertically (without the rubber band the Nook would easily slide sideways if the stand was tilted). That's it. The plastic-coated metal back support adjusts infinitely, the Nook stays at exactly the angle you place it and the rubber strips and rubber band keep the stand in place and the Nook very solid on it. I've used this on four plane flights so far and it's never moved an inch even when the plane turns or banks. It's small, it folds up and its weightless. Ugly but handy.
Nice simple and functional, i like it.
Well done! You have the wheels turning in my head for a similar solution.
I know, right? Doesn't this seem like a no-brainer for a commercial product?
I've had this case for about a week:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008GFVF3M/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00
I'd post photos, but the pictures at Amazon pretty much show you everything that there is to see about the case. Now here's my take on it.
First of all, it's not a thin case. Not even close. When it's closed, it's just under an inch thick. Which is fine for me because that's not what I was after. The Nexus 7 slides into a full leather inner case. The back of that case is covered with Velcro "loops", the soft part of the Velcro. That attaches to a large strip of "hook" Velcro that is sewn into a book-style outer case. As you can see from the Amazon pictures, depending upon the orientation of the inner case, you can place the tablet at one of three angles for viewing.
When I first used the case, the hinge on the left side was stiff - really, really stiff. In fact, sometimes it would pop open and turn the Nexus 7 on. But after a week of use, the hinge has softened, just as I'd hoped, and the cover stays closed, held that way by two magnets. The magnets also turn the tablet on and off. Folded all the way back, the magnets don't affect the tablet at all, probably because of all those layers of leather and cloth sandwiched between the magnets and the tablet.
The quality of materials seems to be good. There weren't any loose stitches. I ordered the black case with a tan interior. Every surface is a two-layer, sewn together construction of an outer leather material against an inner, soft cloth, with the outer cover having some sort of board, like the covers of a book, for extra stiffness (as does the back of the inner cover). The white stitching is a more apparent in real life than in the pictures, which some my find a bit jarring. As far as styling goes, well, it's pretty conservative. It hasn't turned any heads near me, so if that's your thing, you might want to look elsewhere (or perhaps consider one in an exciting color other than black or white).
The three long slots that serve as stops to prop the tablet up also work quite nicely to give your fingers a little grip if you're holding the tablet like a book.
I primarily use my tablet for two things: listening to music at work and reading books at home, so this cover works very nicely for those situations. At work, the Nexus 7 sits, propped at an angle, on my desk and at home, I flip the cover all the way open and it gives me a good grip for reading. Obviously, though, the one thing that it does is obscure the sleek lines of the tablet, so if that's something that you want to show off, this isn't the cover for you. Also, it strikes me that it's not exactly a champ at heat dissipation, but that has not been a problem for me yet.
The price has gone up since I ordered mine, but now it's covered by Amazon Prime, so that may be a break for some of you. I'm quite pleased with it.
By the way, I installed the Nova Launcher, which supports home screen landscape mode. It goes well with this sort of case. OK, here's a picture.
Thanks for the review. I decided to hold off for a little after the n7 was released to see what kind of cases would come out. Thanks to your review and a lot of looking around on Amazon this is the case I'm going to go with.
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I bought the OEM case yesterday because I wanted something sleek and colourful (I have a couple of third-party cases) but the lack of any functionality besides protection was disappointing.
I made these two quick mods to the case to add the things i needed: smart functionality and a typing angle.
First I glued a small rare earth magnet to the front flap to add smart capability, then I used a plastic glue (acentone-based, the kind that comes with a primer pen. Regular super glue would probably be fine) to stick the body of a disposable pen to the back to hold the front flap at a curve.
I covered it in black electrical tape to make it a lil' prettier .
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Sits nice and stable on a table, is easy to fold back, and the angle keeps the magnet from turning the tablet back off when you open the case
Just thought i'd share.
I like it, good idea
It's simple and gets the job done
NOTE: I received this at a discount in exchange for reviewing it.
Also NOTE: This is an outstanding case and the first fully protective case where I have given it five out of five stars on Amazon as well as here.
Please see the photos. Wireless charging works well with this case on. The phone is fully protected, front back and the sides - with this case. The only con I can find about this case is - which is not even a con - is that the two piece fit together so well that when it arrived with no instructions on how to pull it apart to insert the phone, that it is puzzling at first how to do so! DO NOT do like I did which it to try to pry the pieces apart with a knife on the front to try to open it - fortunately I did not scrape the case but soon discovered that the rubber lip on the front around the edges can be pulled back, and that is how to get the front of the case away from the back.
The pieces fit together with very tight tolerances. You first put the phone into the front of the case (and use no screen protector because one is included as part of the front of the case) - and it snaps on nice and tightly. Then you push the flexible heavy rubber-life back onto the front. When you are holding the phone case with the front facing you, and feel along the back edges on the sides of the phone, when you run your fingers up and down those edges they may feel lumpy. If you just push those lumps in then you will feel them snap into place and flatten out - this case fits the phone very well.
One thing I like in particular about this case is the raised lip around the front edge of the phone is raised higher than you will find on most other protective cases, without seeming like it is too fat around the edges of the phone. Additionally, the lip is raised less down near the home button on the phone so that there is no issue with people with large fingers trying to get the fingerprint reader to work well - another good design consideration included with this unit.
The back of the phone's hard plastic surfaces are matte so it is not at all a 'fingerprint magnet'. The indentation for the camera lens has walls that are reflective and slanted so the lens would never be obstructed by the case and there would never be any kind of shadowing affect. On the back of the phone case there are also small fake 'screw heads' that stick up and are in fact made of the heavy rubber material - and they do a good job of actually acting like nice rubber 'feet' on the back of the phone so that it will not slip when put onto a slanted surface. Although the corners and edges of the phone are made of this material, the case is still not too bulky - and not too slip resistant - to stop you from being able to slip it easily into your pocket.
The bottom edge has plugs which only cover the ports which the case designer feels would be used less often - the headphone jack and the charging port. The speaker grille is of course left uncovered and the S-Pen is actually easily accessible - the case is designed so that corner of the phone is still protected from falls, while the S-Pen is still easily reachable, which shows how well the phone case is designed. The only other case I have reviewed which had better plugs is one with plugs slightly larger than the hole with extra ridges on the side of the plug, so that it would still stay in the hole even after being pulled out hundreds of times - that is not the case here, but these plugs still fit pretty tightly and the only way to test if these would stand up to long term daily abuse is to test that for many months of wear and tear. However, I do not think that would be a problem with this phone.
To help with the grip a little better, which may be unnecessary due to the material used in this case anyway, the sides have raised ridges sticking out all the way up and down both sides of the phone. The buttons work very will and do not work so well that they would be pushed in by mistake. Additionally the buttons are easy to find by feel without looking - but in fact they still do not stick out so they would never catch on anything either!
As far as a protective rubber case for the Note 5, this one would be my top choice! Outstanding job Artech 21!
Looks like a great case, similar to the otterbox defender. Two questions? Does Tech 21 have a lifetime warranty for this case (like otterbox) and does the slot where the home button is allow too much dust in?
I am not sure about the warranty. With regards to the slot where the home button was, I only took that photo to show it was ever so slightly misaligned but forgot to mention it. I don't think any dust would get in there...
Note: I received a discount on this case in return for reviewing it.
This case is better than others which claim to offer a huge amount of protection because it is not as bulky as most of the others. One reason could be also because it does not in fact include a cover with a built-in screen protector for the front, although there are lips which do stick up around the front to protect it when the phone is placed face down on a table.
Wireless charging works well with this case as well which can be an issue with other protective cases.
The back of the phone is a shiny plastic material which can be a fingerprint magnet to a very small extent, but that is not nearly as noticeable as an issue as the phone has on the back when it has no cover. The back is also curved on the sides like the bare phone itself, so it is very comfortable to hold.
In order to make up for some possible slipperiness on the very back, you can see by the photos included that that is more than made up for by the rubber "grippy" sides. I would have preferred the side on the phone with the volume buttons to have the same rubber material all the way up the side as the side of the phone with the power button, but that is just my preference with which everyone may not agree.
On the front, the top lip and the bottom lip around the screen are hard rubber, while the sides edges are in fact the same plastic as the center of the back of the phone. They do not fit right up to the edge of the glass the same way - so on the front you can see a little of the metal edge on the top and bottom front edges of the phone with this case. However, it is just this one 'slight flaw' that makes the next paragraph possible:
It may sound counterintuitive, but what I like most about this case is that is not only a very protective case for the phone, but it is also very easy to slip on and off the phone at the same time - the rubber and plastic pieces do not have to be pulled apart from each other to put the phone in or to take it out. Just grap a couple corners and with a little effort it will pop off - not so easy that it would ever slip off on it's own - it is very snug. It may seem like a silly thing, but I have a custom proclip holder in the car (for the bare phone) - and I like to slip my phone into that when I get into the car. As that requires removing the case and slipping it back on, when I am using the other protective cases for my phone I am forced to just not use the proclip holder those times when I am driving - except not with this case!
All in all I really like this case and I'll be using it a lot!
wondermanyoulove said:
it is 4.99 dollars in Ebay
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Probably one of the other reviewers. I still have mine.