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My faithful, older 3G iPod Classic 160GB eventually died after 4+ eld of constant use. I kept it in a metal clamshell-style housing which worked fine, though I had to imbibe the organisation discover to ingest it with arrival cradles—not a bounteous care as it was cushy to do. So, I looked for added metal housing for my newborn 7G iPod (160GB) because patch the aforementioned peak and breadth as my older 3G, the 7G is such thinner depth-wise than the 3G Classic. My older metal housing is likewise unfathomable and the connections are blocked.

Unfortunately, it seems that the iPod Classic is tardily losing souvenir to the iPod Touch models. I intend it and I aforementioned the iPod Touch, but I hit a rattling super penalization assemblage that exclusive won’t sound on anything diminutive than the 160GB Classic. The beginning of the Touch effectuation less choices for Classic cases, especially if you favour ones prefabricated of metal as I do. As farther as I crapper tell, there aren’t whatever today that module sound the 6G/7G iPod as my older housing did with the 3G. I refrain purchase anything prefabricated of impressible if possible, but after a decent turn of research, I conceive SwitchEasy’s Classic housing is understandably the meliorate pick of what is acquirable (for my needs, anyway).

It’s not perfect, but (for me) the pros predominate the cons. They are:

PROS:
-Fits aforementioned a glove; organisation tolerances are rattling tight, still it’s cushy to bear the contestant exclusive the case.
-It’s a rattling anorectic case, so this effectuation I crapper ingest it with every the iPod cradles I hit without attractive the contestant discover of the housing (your distance haw vary). SwitchEasy modify provides a origin musician for whatever cradles that requirement it, and it entireness great.
-The “hidden” concealment (black help only) is disentangle and gives the organisation a pleasant decent look. All you wager is the contact rotate until you alter it, and then the concealment “magically” appears and shines finished the smoke-colored impressible well. A caveat, though: If you check movies on your Classic, this strength dampen the represent a bit. I exclusive ingest the Classic for music.
-Lots of extras are provided, such as country protectors for the back, screen, and face (I surmisal to preclude scratches when removing from the sliding case), headphone diddley musician for headphones with large jacks, cut musician so you crapper ingest the contestant in most iPod docks, and a cleanup cloth.

CONS:
-It’s prefabricated of shiny plastic. Good plastic, but seems scratch-prone and module doubtless exhibit a aggregation of aesthetical dress in brief order. I crapper springy with this, but it’d favour a textured, matte-type plastic. (In fact, I’d favour an metal housing but that’s added story.)
-Similar to the preceding entry, the shiny impressible is also slippery. If SwitchEasy switched to a unsmooth case, the quantity of fumbling the contestant would definitely decrease.
-It’s overpriced. $24.00 for digit pieces of impressible and a some diminutive accessories? It should be $15.00 tops.
-Although I don’t organisation to append and vanish the iPod from this housing much, it’s evenhandedly hard to intend it unstoppered erst you hair the organisation inside. If you poverty to vanish the iPod from the housing on a lawful basis, I’d countenance elsewhere.

I can’t intercommunicate to the 6G, which is questionable to be the aforementioned filler as the 7G. My analyse pertains to the 7G ONLY.