Protective Silicone Case for BlackBerry 9800 - Black

Pros: - Easy to install. - It has two parts so that you can still slide the phone. - All the buttons and holes for plugs are included. - It's a real Blackberry product. - It has an anti-slip backcover. - It's cheap.

Cons: - It doesn't fit perfectly. - There are some raw projections. - No other cons I guess.

Other: I say order it immediately, if you have a Blackberry 9800 at least.

Pros: The protection comes in two parts, one for each side of the slider. I found mine somewhat more stiff than I'd expected, though I didn't mind that at all; it felt like it could withstand some rough handling. Once I got the hang of it, I was able to put both parts on fairly easily, and they didn't feel like they would come off easily of their own accord. The ridged backing was a surprise, and altogether, I thought it looked fairly professional.

Cons: The back piece is, unfortunately, poorly designed. Thanks to that, and what I can only assume was bad production tolerances that resulted in a piece slightly too small, it ended up exerting constant pressure on both ends of the Blackberry's lock/mute bar. This caused the Blackberry to stop accepting hardware button inputs (screen is fine), and if you leave it on long enough, even taking it off doesn't fix things; you'll need to reboot via battery pull.
Aside from that major problem is a more minor one: the harder material does not grip surfaces nearly as well as the default backing material.

Other: Thankfully, I only lost a few bucks on this. It's entirely possible it was just luck of the draw and I received a bad unit. Still, I saw no obvious defect in the product, so I've no idea whether a different one would actually resolve the issue. I really wanted this to work out, but as it stands this is completely unusable.