The Q Card Case is made out of a leather-like material that is nicely finished with stitching and features a credit card and "walking around" money pocket on the back (this is, and I'm not kidding, a "patent pending" design ... really? Patents have come to this? Sigh.)

While the case has a raised edge to protect the screen, this design is more "office" than "child wrangling". One thing I do like is that the material covering the various buttons is flexible enough to offer only the slightest resistance, a detail that many other cases definitely don't achieve. I have to say I like this design a lot. It's lightweight, definitely one of the more elegant designs and, priced at $39.95, a good choice if you don't need too much protection. The Q Card Case gets a Gearhead rating of 5 out 5.

If you're looking to give your iPhone the ruggedness normally associated with, say, a brick, then perhaps the is what you need.

The product is explained thusly: "Tested to meet or exceed US Department of Defense Standard 810F and UK Department of Defense Standard 00-35, Griffin's Survivor Extreme-Duty Case is designed from the inside out to protect your iPhone from extreme conditions ... dirt, sand, rain, shock, vibration and a host of other environmental factors" and they aren't kidding!

The thick, impact absorbing frame is made of vibration-absorbing silicone (tested for 18 hours at 20 to 2000 Hz) over a hard polycarbonate frame (survives a drop onto flat concrete surfaces from 6 feet) that features a built-in screen protector (tested up to 7.9 inches per hour of rain for 1 hour).