Product Description

A top quality player such as the Creative Zen X-Fi deserves a top quality case. The sleek and smooth Tuff Luv Premium Leather Case fits the bill. Designed and cut to fit the X-Fi player securely and snugly the Tuff Luv case not only showcases the X-Fi player but provides it with a good level of protection as well. Manufactured from high quality leather and including a metal Caribiner clip and a conveinient slot for storing an SD Card this case is not only good looking but practical to boot! Elegant case made in high quality soft napa leather Compatible MP3 player Zen X-Fi (8GB/16GB/32GB) Practical thanks to its snap button closure Stylish interior lining Removable caribiner Belt clip

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9564 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Tuff-Luv
• Model: C3_50
• Released on: 2008-09-15

Features

• Elegant case made in high quality soft napa leather
• Compatible MP3 player Zen (8GB/16GB/32GB)
• Practical thanks to its snap button closure
• Stylish interior lining
• Removable caribiner Belt clip

Manufacturer's Description
The Tuff Luv Leather Case is beautifully hand crafted to meet the exact specifications of your device.If you can splash out for this, like all our other leather cases for your device, you can see Tuff-Luv do not dissapoint! Practical and stylish. A long tradition in making classic cases for all devices. Trust us to look after your mp3 player. Soft yet strong and hard wearing soft napa leather.

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Customer Reviews

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This was replacement case for me as the original was without access to the on/off switch, the seller very kindly emailed me to offer me this case with access which is very well made of tuff leather ideal to protect your x-fi if your are prone to dropping things. All openings are well lined up for headephones/charging/sd card.

Flawed design
First up, a confession. If I hadn't been careless, my X-Fi 32GB wouldn't have been broken. I'm not abdicating all responsibility for the problem...

The case is very good at protecting against minor knocks and scuffs from everyday use, but has a fundamentally flawed design which not only fails to cope with localised pressure, but actively exacerbates the detrimental effects of such.

The flaw is the SD card holder, on the inside of the cover. It sits snug against the screen and, under normal circumstances, shouldn't cause any problems. Apply significant pressure to the cover, though, and the card holder will press against the screen, with potentially disastrous effects. Physics in action, you see. It's the same reason why high-heels shouldn't be worn on boats.

My X-Fi got trapped under the boot lid of my car (told you I wasn't paying attention). Upon rescuing it, I found that the screen had a crack completely across it, at exactly the point where the edge of the SD card holder was. In addition, the display is now completely shot, and only lights up. I suppose I could use it as an expensive rechargeable torch now. At least the guts of the thing worked enough for me to rescue the files off of it afterwards via USB.

If the SD card holder wasn't present, the screen wouldn't have cracked the way it did. The unit might still have been wrecked, mind you, but the screen would have survived.

So, if you have one of these cases, make sure you don't put undue pressure on the side where the screen is. This applies even more strongly if you've been foolish enough to put an SD card into the holder.

Now I'm off to buy another audio player...

Functional but not pretty
The case certainly fits the Zen Xi-Fi very neatly and protects it well against knocks and the black leather is good quality. However I have 3 minor niggles and one major one: the case will not stand up on its own as illustrated; the white stiching looks very clumsy and "folksy" - finer, black stitching would be so much neater and sleeker; the on/off switch is very difficult to operate unless you have small fingers and long nails - this is mainly because of the position of the switch on the Zen which is so close to the edge that the makers of the case really don't have much room to position their opening. Finally, after only 2 weeks, the carabiner broke.