Review: The no-worry case
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
I am a big fan of Otterboxes and have had them for most of our devices, even in the old days of plain iPods. I had an Otterbox on my Kindle Fire but gave it to one of my grandchildren after Christmas, the child sometimes referred to as Butterfingers. As soon as I put it on his Fire, I handed it to him, and he dropped it. The Otterbox saved it, but I still don’t think he should drop it. This one replaces that one on my Kindle Fire, except that the color on this is fantastic! I love the bright magenta.I have never had to replace a single item that was protected by an Otterbox. I put them on Samsung phones, iPhones, iPods, Kindle Fires, and Kindles. The only time I have had broken screens is from the teenager who takes the Otterbox off said devices because he says they are too heavy and too bulky. The lesson is learned and all that because I’m not a big fan of replacing devices that had perfectly good and unused protection.This is an improved Otterbox. It is still difficult to get open, because it is stiff and unbending. I have broken more than one fingernail on an Otterbox but it was for a good reason. Once you snap the case over your Kindle Fire, you will feel how protective it is, even before you put the rubbery part on it. Then there is the stand/ cover. Even that is an improvement over the last design. The last design was sometimes difficult to put in one direction or the other – the angle that the Kindle Fire will sit at. But this one is much improved -- it snaps one way or the other -- and does not fall before the Kindle gets put in it. I love that improvement.My Kindle Fires don’t spend that much time being dropped but they do (did) go to the gym with me and my kindle has Free time on it, so all of my young grandchildren play with it. And there is definitely manhandling and dropping of my Fire.I don’t worry at all when the Otterbox is on.