***The Giveaway isn’t necessarily iPhone related, so be sure to look at it before you decide you can’t enter! OtterBox makes cases for many brands of phones.***

I know you’ve all been DYING to know what happened with my iPhone debacle!

I’d love to be able to tell you that I stood firm, told Apple to shove it and switched back to a Blackberry.

But I didn’t.

I paid $199 for a new (refurbished?)  iPhone.  Technically, the business paid $199 for a new (refurbished?) iPhone.  That sounds much better, and my cell phone is a business necessity (because YES, texting my sister, mom and Heather is totally business related, DUH).

I got my new (refurbished?) $199  iPhone and got busy reinstalling ALL OF MY APPS.  Because when your iPhone syncs to iTunes, apparently it doesn’t HOLD your apps for you.  So I spent two hours trying to remember what I’d previously downloaded.  Luckily, it somehow remembers what you’ve previously paid for, so I didn’t have to pay for it all again.  Because that?!  Would NOT have gone over well.  At ALL.

I also ordered a new case for my new (refurbished?) $199 iPhone.  I somehow ran across something about OtterBox, so I went to check it out.  And, DUDE, it looked like it was EXACTLY what I needed.  It came in three parts, and the outer layer has little plugs that cover all the openings.  Therefore, THEORETICALLY, it would be difficult for any “moisture” to reach any senstive areas of my new (refurbished?) $199 iPhone.  So,  I ordered one.

And while I waited patiently for it to arrive, I made CERTAIN that my children didn’t get their grubby hands on my new (refurbished?) $199 iPhone.

And then my Otterbox Defender Series Case for iPhone 3G came.  It took me a little while (10 minutes, probably) to figure out exactly how to get the damn thing apart and then onto my phone.  The drawings weren’t very helpful, but I eventually put my years of schooling to good use  (See mom and dad!  College finally amounted to something!) and figured it out.

And I LOVE IT.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.

The case is STURDY.  Not that I go around dropping my phone constantly, but when if I do, I’m confident that my case has will adequately protect it.  And the clip on portion is handy for my purse, since I’m constantly digging through it to find my phone.  Now, I just snap it into the clip and I know just where it is when someone calls me.

And it’s soft.  Like, really soft, which you wouldn’t necessarily expect.  It does add a bit of bulk to the my new (refurbished?)$199 iPhone, but I acutally LIKE that aspect of it.  A little extra junk in the trunk gives me more to hold on to.  And, really, it’s only about 3/4 of an inch thick with the case, which I suppose is significanly thicker than the actual phone, but it’s really not thick in the grand scheme of things.

The only *so far* annoying thing about it is that there’s a strange oil slick type phenomenon that occurs between the screen protector on the case and the screen of my new (refurbished?) $199 iPhone.  I’ve seen a bunch of people on the interwebz suggest ways to get rid of it, but none of them have worked for me yet.  I will keep trying though, and I will prevail.

And honestly, I really only notice it when my new (refurbished?) $199 iPhone screen is completely black.  And who cares then, anyway?

The positives of the OtterBox Defender Case for iPhone 3G far outweigh the one negative, so I’m going to let it slide.

I got the black one, but they have them in a bunch of colors.

Giveaway!!!

The best part?!  I wrote to OtterBox and asked if they’d be willing to offer one of my readers a case, and they agreed!

So, here are the details:

Head over to OtterBox and look at all they have to offer.  They’ve got cases for iPod, iPhone, Samsung, Blackberry, Motorola and Palm, just to name a few. Pick what ONE item would be best for you, up to a $49.95 value, and come back here.  Leave a comment telling me what item you’re choosing, with color choice, if that’s an option.

You can gain one extra entry per day by tweeting about this contest.

You can use this as the tweet:

I just entered the giveaway @AMomTwoBoy’s place.  Win a case to protect your cell phone or PDA!  http://tinyurl.com/mffs66

Leave a comment here with a link to your tweet for it to count as a contest entry.

The rules:

Open to US Resident’s only.  Comments will close at 4pm on Monday, June 15th, 2009, at which point a winner will be chosen by random drawing (using random.org) from all eligible entries.  I will notify the winner by email and will need a shipping address (No PO Boxes) by Wednesday, June 17th.  If I don’t hear from the winner by June 17th, I will choose another winner.

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OtterBox has also offered a 10% discount code to my readers that will expire on June 22, 2009.  The code is AMomTwoBoysOtter and is case sensitive.  In the interest of truthyness (heh) I should tell you that I purchased* my OtterBox case for my new (refurbished?) $199 iPhone from Amazon for a good price.  However, looking at what they’re offering today, I don’t see any exceptional deals, so the 10% discount is looking like a good bet.  But do your research!  :0)

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*I paid for my OtterBox Defender Case for iPhone 3G with my very own personal money.  I like it so much, I contacted OtterBox on my own and asked them if they would be willing to offer a case to my readers.  I am in NO WAY being compensated by OtterBox or any PR company for this post.  Capeesh?!

theFlip MINO

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