12 worst iPhone case designs

The iPhone is a state-of-the-art, minimalist gadget where a lot of effort was put into the case design. These phones are as precious to people as Gollum’s ring and in order to avoid scratching them, many people have attached protective covers. This activity ranges from being like leaving the plastic cover on a new sofa to gilding a lilly.

Some people go further, however, and actively defecate on the lilly. There are an amazing variety of iPhone cases which completely ignore the fact that the iPhone is a futuristic design in an appropriately minimalist modernist enclosure. iPhone case are produced using incompatible styles associated with military ruggedness (Oakley unobtainium rubber) or pre-industrial luxury materials (diamond and gold) and made to specifications which are often much worse than the thing they are designed to enhance. Vote for your worst.

 
(Ranked by user votes) Vote on and review the contenders below.
Gold and diamond go together like tasteless and oligarch.<p /><p />It costs $20,000 and is priceless - as in hilariously funny. A revolting addition to your phone that will appeal to people who have made too much money from oil.<p /><p />A special feature of this case is that it is made from carbon fiber leather - WTF is carbon fiber leather other than the biggest oxymoron since a gold and diamond iPhone case.
Snakeskin and silver are another brilliantly criminal combination of design defecation.
The actual iLuv website seems to no longer exist (perhaps there is a god), so I am linking to this review instead.
Nobody apart from the artist formerly known as the artist who was formerly known as Prince, i.e. Prince, should be allowed to wear purple. It should be illegal for most people, like in ancient Rome.<p /><p />To add insult to injury, the protective case comes with a protective case for the protective case.
Yuuuck.
Are Oakley taking the piss, perhaps, when they say that their iPhone cas is made of &#039;Unobtainium&#039;?<p /><p />Oakley have taken the carefully machined case of the iPhone, and crassly bulked it up to look rugged. In reality it looks like a cheap speaker from a vendor on New York&#039;s Canal St, rather than a Navy Seal accoutrement.
LVs iPhone cases cost up to $1100, and are perfect - if you want your state-of-the-art cellphone to look like something from 18th century France.
Wearing a cellphone on a clip on your belt does not make you look like a cop with a walkie talkie or a gunslinger, it makes you look like a tourist in a bad Hawaiian short and nylon, pleated, pants. Why bother with an iPhone if you need a holster.
The crocodile skin look went out with elephant&#039;s foot umbrella stands and gorilla&#039;s hans ash trays. And if you want brown, perhaps you should wait till Microsoft brings out a Zune phone.
I would not. The modern day equivalent of a sedan car with wooden sides or a 70s answer phone, the iWood uses branding terms like the &#039;iWood Heritage&#039;, to make your iPhone look liek a prop from the Flintstones. This is like taking a scifi DVD and redesigning its cover to look like a period drama.