[Galaxy S III Accessories] SSHGuru:
Sweepstakes

I just found this thread - I'll try to answer as many questions as possible.

But we do have a sweepstakes going for a screen protector of your choice here - https://www.facebook.com/DbaCases/app_112053162216760

Scott

CEO

DBA Cases

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Thanks for the review. If you can put it in a format that isn't a message posting I'll post it under reviews on the website - it's well done. You can email it to me at scott@dbacases.com if you want.

Everyone wants the know how protective it is compared to the Otterbox and that's a very hard question. Otterbox makes a good case, but they use a cheap polycarbonate that usually falls apart over time (not my words, but I know a ton of people who have them and they always break).

The quality of materials used is extremely important. We had to special order the polycarbonate mix because no one uses what we wanted. Most polycarbonate (I'll use PC from here on) is either not real PC or cheap PC. I wanted something that could take a fall without shattering. If you try to bend another company's PC it will break. Ours will bend not break. That means like the bumper of a car it will absorb more impact.

No one in their right mind is going to take our case and bend it - but I can.

I could have bent it more, and in fact I've bent the corners without breaking it either. Our Thin Grip is made the same way.

The TPU was actually the hardest part because no one has put TPU under PC before. They all use silicone. It took a few months to get the exacting dimensions so when you put the PC in it looks like one case. We put a ridge around the edge of the TPU so the PC SNAPS in. That means on a fall it should stay on.

Most of your protective cases are silicone and PC. I really didn't understand why they didn't use TPU (other than the cost) until we tried it. Since TPU is so much harder than silicone the PC has to fit perfectly or it won't go on. Silicone will give enough so the PC stays on (most of the time). On the TPU we ended up making the parts you can see shiny and the parts you cannot matte. We had to do that to get it to work. Actually the release of all of our cases was delayed because of the Ultra. The TPU was the hardest part.

So when you ask what kind of drop can it take the first thing you need to ask yourself is what kind of drop can a quality TPU case alone take? Generally the answer is a pretty good drop. But TPU alone is not the most protective and most of the time ugly. Once you add PC which is the most protection you can put on a case I consider it a maximum protection case. However I have not tested it by dropping all kinds of different cases. I've dropped it many times using my dummy SIII's and the PC has never come off and the case doesn't get damaged.

No one likes a massive case covering their $750 phone so we made it slim enough that the actual buttons can be pressed. It weighs one ounce.

Then we made it so you can buy 35 combinations of colors. You can go to my site or Amazon and purchase a PC part or a TPU part for half the cost. That means you can change the look of the phone cheaply and many times.

The PC doesn't scratch easily. When I try my fingernails on it, it either doesnt scratch or I see a scratch I can wipe clear with my thumb. We have three layers of coating on it.

Everyone demands white - so we give white. I haven't had complaints that it gets dirty but I do have one person who stained it in a new brown leather bag. There is nothing I can do about that kind of thing but I've been trying to help them get the stain out. (factory said use white oil).

I hope that answers most of the questions. Our goal was to make affordable high end cases. I prefer light minimal cases so that's what we made (the Thin Grip is amazing).

Scott Weiner

CEO

DBA Cases, Inc.

Oh by the way look for us in the issue of Entrepreneur Magazine Startups coming out this weekend.:D

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PC over TPU - 2 parts.

The reason you can't find anyone who can make that color is because we can't make that color. I tried. Calling it Pebble Blue is really stretching what blue really is. I'd call it gray with a little blue in it. Ultimately if we could have made it the same color it would have looked bad. Because the back of your phone is a different color blue than the front.

Now that they are coming out with a bunch of new colors I'm glad I have all of the variations.

But I do have three dummy white phones and one dummy blue phone. The blue is an official Verizon dummy S III. Here are some pictures.

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With the Just Like Glass screen protector which increases the break resistance of the glass by 35% you're getting closer to complete coverage.

The one we made just covers the display because it's almost impossible to do the full display on curved glass with no peel.

But the guys on another thread convinced me to try full coverage so I have five samples coming next week that I'll ship out to people to test. If they are good we'll offer both.

No need to send me a PM saying you'll test it - I've already had 30 :p

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We need more reviews on Amazon and DBA Cases. So please if you like our product please review it! Especially on Amazon where they don't even show your cases without alot of good reviews!

Here is everything on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/main?ie=UTF8&isAmazonFulfilled=1&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&isCBA=&asin=&seller=A2SDKPQEBTWOZW

Here is a link to our new site (still under a little construction for the look but everything else works). Reviews were broken until someone told me - now they should work.

http://www.dbacases.com/

Thanks!