Just knit a rectangle, and sew two edges together to make a flat "sock" or "envelope". I was done in a couple of hours, but I guess I'm used to knitting in front of the TV.
Back when smartphones were not a thing yet, I had some new Nokia model that I kept in a little fabric 'bag' that I got with my Minidisc-player. I remember being laughed at by some friends. Years later everybody uses some kind of case for their smartphone, and I go by some personal policy to keep the bare smartphone in my pocket. I don't know why I tell this, maybe because I sometimes feel like a trendsetter.
My memory of Nokia is phones so strong, you didn’t a case, just maybe a screen protector. I dropped my N900 from a meter height many, many times and it never cracked. It’s still such a handsome piece of hardware in my drawer that I wish I could still take it out and use it.
I also used to have a bare phone policy, but I had to change it after everybody decided to start making the damn things out of fragile glass. Yeah plastic screens are uglier but they don't crack
Whoa there pardner, my first 'smartphone' victim was a Nokia NGage - hey, it ran Symbian and I got it for not that much - which I had in my front coat pocket while working in the forest. One relatively gentle collision with a branch sticking out from a tree and the plastic screen was cracked. As was the LCD underneath it. It was then I switched to the next big thing, a Qtek S200 (better known as HTC Prophet). It was cheap 'cause it was used in some experiment by the Swedish railways which seems to have failed. The thing was new, more or less, for 1/10th of the price. It had a plastic touch screen cover which I replaced twice 'cause it started to resemble frosted glass from use.
I have been planning on paying for AppleCare and not using a case for my main phone or an incredibly thin discrete/minimal case. Modern phones look so sleek without cases.
I agree for the later models, but the 4S and SE were perfect with the square corners. Also because they were smaller and usable with one hand while cycling.
Stuff like this was kind of necessary on those early generation iPods, they had mechanical spinning disks. I remember dropping mine and hearing the click from the busted disk :/
I didn't realize these were a collectors item, I had bought a couple packs as they worked great to keep the iPod from clattering around in the glove compartment or center console of the car. I gave some to friends who used them as phone cases in the early iPhone days.
I bought these for the kids, back in the iPod days. Fun and helpful to keep the things from getting too banged up. But actually the iPod era went by quickly.
The iPod was a stepping stone to the iPhone but even Steve didn’t know that at the beginning.
> Apple stopped selling the product sometime in September 2012.[5] The set soon became a collector's item, with aftermarket prices rising as high as US$90 by 2014.
There it is. The only reason anyone on HN will ever give a damn
used one with my magic mouse 1, never would have paid upwards of $40 for it. was quite handy tho, to avoid scratching the delicate white plastic, despite it barely fit. Issey Myake knit lanyard pocket -- what a joke! Buckle up folks, we're definitely in a bubble.
Apple releases the iPhone Pocket: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-po...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885813
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