An Honest Review of Incipio Feather Case for iPod touch 2G

Though I like Apple prod­ucts, I refused to sign up with AT&T for an iPhone. I bought an iPod Touch instead. A gor­geous device! Look­ing at it, it was quite evi­dent the chrome will  get scratched quite easily.

I wanted a decent, rea­son­ably priced pro­tec­tion for my iPod Touch.  Here’s what I wanted:

• I bought the Touch for mostly pro­gram­ming, so I wasn’t plan­ning on tak­ing it out­side.  I wasn’t look­ing for pro­tec­tion from drop­ping the Touch.  Just some­thing to pre­vent scratching
• I should be able to remove the case eas­ily if needed
• Should pro­tect the screen and the body
• All the but­tons on the iPod Touch must be accessible
• Should be able to dock with­out hav­ing to remove the case
• Shouldn’t hide the ele­gance of the device

There were tons of cases for the iPod Touch! The after­mar­ket is huge!  There were a lot of paid reviews and astro­turf­ing involved (my opin­ion).  I don’t think I spent as much time decid­ing on the iPod Touch as I did on decid­ing a case for it!

After spend­ing days read­ing up on iPod Touch cases, I decided on get­ting the Inci­pio Feather case.  This is a review of this case.  I’ve been using it for about 2 months now.

Why Inci­pio Feather?

Inci­pio Feather addresses most of what I wanted from a case.

• Pro­vides decent pro­tec­tion against scratches
• The case is extremely thin and beau­ti­ful. You can eas­ily remove it if needed (I haven’t installed the screen protector).
• Inci­pio Feather comes with 2 screen pro­tec­tors and the case. Most of the other brands I checked only pro­vided the case and I would’ve had to spend extra to get the screen protector
• The case has slits on the side and the top for the vol­ume and power but­tons. The bot­tom is uncovered
• The case is very thin. Will you be able to use it with a dock­ing unit? I really don’t know.  If the dock­ing unit had some space you prob­a­bly might be able to dock it with­out remov­ing the case.  If the iPod Touch has a really snug fit, you might have to remove the case.  The Feather doesn’t cover the bot­tom, so you can charge it with­out hav­ing to remove the case
• The Feather cov­ers the back and the three sides.  It leaves the chrome on the front and bot­tom exposed. It is a mat­ter of taste, but I love the accent it adds to the Touch!  I have a Red case and a slight bit of chrome makes the iPod Touch look very elegant

What’s in the Packaging

The pack­ag­ing itself is very Apple like.  Very well done!  You get

• 2 screen protectors
• A clean­ing cloth with Inci­pio logo
• A screen pro­tec­tor air bub­ble remover
• The case

The case itself has a slight rub­bery feel, so if you place it on a table it will not slide off that easily.

Instal­la­tion

Installing the case takes hardly any time.  Very easy to install the case.  After try­ing out the screen pro­tec­tor, I decided against installing it.  The Touch’s screen is made of some spe­cial glass that pre­vents scratch­ing that eas­ily. And after two months of using the Touch, I haven’t seen a sin­gle scratch appear on the screen.  I did try one of the screen pro­tec­tors though.  But after see­ing air bub­bles, I decided against it.

Drop pro­tec­tion

No I haven’t tried drop­ping the Touch!  The pack­ag­ing claims ‘Shock Absorb­ing Pro­tec­tion’.  I don’t know, look­ing at it, I don’t think it will.  Again, that wasn’t why I wanted this case in the first place.  But if that is your cri­te­rion, I wouldn’t rec­om­mend this case.

Other cases considered

One pop­u­lar case is the Invis­i­ble Shield by Zagg.  This is basi­cally a trans­par­ent full wrap around case for the Touch. I did con­sider this, but decided against it.  The instal­la­tion is sup­posed to be a night­mare, atleast from most of the reviews I’ve read.  The edges where the wrap ter­mi­nates looks really ugly.  The Invis­i­ble Shield comes with some kind of liq­uid to keep the case in place.  Will it leave a residue if I decide to remove it?

I really liked the Pix­el­Skin from Speck. It has got­ten some very good reviews on Ama­zon.  The only rea­son I passed this was due to the fact it didn’t come with a screen pro­tec­tor. (At the time I was try­ing to decide, that was a major factor)

Con­clu­sion

I think the Inci­pio Feather is a keeper. So far I’m quite sat­is­fied.  If you have any ques­tions about this par­tic­u­lar case, do use the com­ments sec­tion. I’ll try my best to answer.