To merely say that we’re unenthusiastic about Cygnett’s lineup of iPhone 4 cases would be accurate but insufficient to explain our continued distaste for generic OEM products, so here goes: Cygnett’s Lavish ($30) and Glam ($30) cases offer cheap-looking perforated lambskin and patent leather bodies with the inconvenient flip-style designs we’ve avoided for years, here with poor volume button protectors and plain holes for all of iPhone 4’s other features.
The company’s Crystal ($25) is an utterly bland transparent plastic shell with minimal molding effort on the top and bottom, a tightly cut camera and flash hole, and film as the only protection for the iPhone 4’s face.
Then there’s Snaps Duo ($19), a set of two crappy-looking, poorly tailored rubber frames that are even more minimalist and loose than Apple’s Bumpers, aided only by the inclusion of both front and back protective film.
