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Let me rant about Apple a little here.  I’ll preface with saying that I love many of their products but I’m irritated sometimes by their ultra/over secrecy…  I ordered my iPod touch 4th Generation the hour that it was announced.  I was waiting for it to be released and it was a planned purchase opposed to an uncontrollable lust for any shiny object Steve holds up in his hand.  As punishment for my early adoption, I had to wait months for a decent case to come out.  Like hell would Apple actually share even their measurements to any third party accessory manufactures and god forbid they actually release their own protective case to tarnish their beautiful objects…

Now that I’m done ranting, let me talk about the Speck PixelSkin.  First I will say that I don’t really trust it nearly as much as my Tech21 iBand that my son inherited with my old iPod Touch 2g.  I have full confidence to THROW the iPod at the ground in that case and have it survive unscathed.  I don’t have quiet the same confidence in the PixelSkin but I think it would withstand an accidental drop just fine.  There are plenty of other things I like about the Pixel vs. the iBand though.  Most notably, the power button is much easier to press in the Pixel.  The volume buttons perhaps are not aligned as well as I would like but I wouldn’t even ding this case half a star for that.  Overall, the case fits very snugly and has a fairly high ridge that should do a reasonable job protecting the screen from the table top and other devices in my pocket.  The case does SLIGHTLY encroach on the home button.  That is really the worst thing I can say about it.  Other than that, it looks great, feels great in my hand and appeals to my love of 8-bit things for some reason

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