I doubt a carbon fiber case provides any more drop protection than other cases, including those silicone sleeves of call out – if anything, shouldn’t those soft cases have better shock absorption? With scratch protection you get no argument from me. And carbon fiber is lighter weight than most other materials, so the case could be outfitted with more shock absorbing material without outweighing other cases – if the case manufacturer decided to do that.

I used to use edge bumpers from Utomic – they used a material that supposedly dispersed shock better than anything else – and since they just went on the corners of the phone, you could still see and feel the texture of the original phone. They were pretty pricey years ago. But now that I’m writing to you, I went back to the utomic web site and see that they a lot cheaper than before, so I guess I have you to thank for getting me back in touch with the utomics – thanks! 🙂