You can, of course, get a branded phone sock, designed by the people that made your phone, specifically for that unit. A branded phone sock will have lots of clever little holes in it that mean you can access every last bell and whistle. A branded phone sock will have a perfectly fitted screen saver (a little plastic shield set into the phone sock, which prevents your screen from scratches and cracks). A branded phone sock will also cost you an arm and half a leg.
There are plenty of companies around these days that do nothing but manufacture the phone sock: the phone sock for Sony; the phone sock for Nokia; the phone sock for LG; even the phone sock for (dare we say it) Apple. You can get yourself a phone sock that is good for several different types of similar phone or a phone sock designed for a specific use (like running).
Running is a good one, actually – the running-use phone sock tends to be hardwearing, highly-visible (if you drop your phone, in its phone sock, while running, you want it to be a) protected and b) immediately noticeable) and well waterproofed, which makes it ideal for most everyday use as well. Often, you’ll find a running phone sock has the facility to be strapped to your arm, so you can be sure it doesn’t joggle out of a pocket and end up under the wheels of a bus.
The phone sock, like your phone’s shell (you know those changeable funky ones you get), can be used to individualise as well as protect: if you want to make a statement, get yourself a phone sock in bright pink or yellow, and if you want to go all emo and intense get a black phone sock with death’s heads on it or something. The happy phone sock is covered in flowers and no doubt this season’s techie phone sock will feature some radical access features and the same material they built the space shuttle out of. Heck, now that NASA have apparently scrapped the space programme because it was costing too much money, maybe they’ll be able to recoup their costs by marketing a phone sock that really is built out of old shuttles. Now that would be worth buying.
