[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Accessories] xbkingx:
Following up on my last post, got the Poetic Nubuck and YFWOOD real wood cases.

Poetic Nuback (2 card pocket, Note 8)

- Very nice material quality. Top portion has a plush, fabric, alcantara feel. Bottom portion is a soft faux leather, but not that slippery cheap stuff. Internal surface is hard plastic with no cushioning pattern or soft materials.

- Room for 2-3 cards, maybe even a few bills.

- Uses a flat piece of cord/fabric string to remove cards: Inserting card pushes the string down into the pocket, pull the tab on the string to remove the cards. The down side to this is that there's no easy way to tuck the string in if you don't want to add any cards. The pocket is too tight to feed the string in and balling it up adds an annoying lump. This is usually handled with a piece of elastic attached from the inside bottom of the pocket to the string middle, but that is missing here.

- Can wireless charge with the pocket empty (not even going to try with cards in it, since that can't be good for the strips).

- Surprisingly thin, which is nice for a wallet case, but doesn't offer the best protection.

- Very minimal lip/raise-ivity. Placing the phone face down, it will rest on the case lip, but the smallest amount of pressure will cause contact with the tabletop. Will be useless for any drops.

- Buttons are slightly stiffer, and the volume button has been split in 2, instead of a single rocker design.

- Side edges add enough width to the phone to reduce accidental edge touches, but that also means, again, minimal protection.

- Camera area well protected and symmetrical.

- Overall: This case looks and feels nice and would be decent for night out. However, it offers very little protection - more than a skin or ultraslim case, but much less than any other case I've had (including the cheap $5 soft TPU throwaways). The cardholder is nice to have, but annoying to use. All that said, it's still a nice everyday driver case for people that don't usually use cases (don't drop their phones), want basic scratch protection, and something that's stylish without being gaudy.

- Who this is for: You don't like cases, but feel compelled to protect such an expensive device. You're not a klutz, so want something cheap, but unique and premium feeling.

YFWOOD real wood case (Note 8)

- I was looking forward to this case the most, and found it the most disappointing.

- There is a thin piece of dyed balsa wood or compressed wood splinters, that's recessed into a stiff plastic pattern. Or maybe there's a thin sheet wedged between two plastic surfaces. Can't tell. The point is that you won't actually feel wood, and if you did, you'd probably get splinters, judging by how rough it is.

- Feels like a low quality, hard and slippery plastic case.

- Minimal protection, slightly more lip than the Poetic (above), but looser fit, so a direct hit would probably cause the phone to pop out anyways.

- Symmetrical camera protection, good camera protection.

- Super stiff buttons, different texture around buttons, but the Bixby and volume buttons have a continuous texture (no change in texture between them), so you're never sure if you're about to hit the Bixby or volume down button.

-Overall: Just don't buy this case. I thought this would be the 'interesting case' for my phone and it turned out embarrassingly 'meh'. Slippery, no protection (except scratches), cheap feeling, and makes the phone more difficult to use.

- Who this is for: You were going to get a $7 case, but found $5 off coupon and thought you'd get all fancy.