So I got this case kind of late last night, so I chose to play with it for a while before reviewing it. You’re probably wondering how you “play” with an iPod Case, well I had my methods, but they claim its “waterproof, dustproof, dirtproof, sandproof, and drop-proof” and I can personally assure to that all of those are true, that’s how you play with an iPod case.When I got it, I looked it over, figured out how to put my iPod in, and then closed it up, from there, every time I would have normally placed my iPod somewhere; I threw it there, which was so much fun. Then I took it in the bath with me and threw some (a lot) water on it, none got inside, but I didn’t feel like submerging it because I though that might be pushing it, and they may have sent me the case to try out, but I had to supply my own iPod which I don’t feel like ruining.

They have a rubber, sealed button that works with the “home” button, or the little round button at the bottom of the screen, it works flawlessly. The touchscreen is covered by a rugged transparent material that has survived my beating, and I can still use the touchscreen through this material, in fact, I’d go so far as to say my typing has improved, likely due to the lack of slipping fingers onto other keys.

There is another hole covered by the same material, I believe it is for the light sensor so that you can still make use of that. They also re-route your headphone jack to the outside of the case, that’s in order to ensure its sealed in there with now way for water, dust, dirt, or sand to directly affect your iPod, its still on the bottom of the case though, so they didn’t re-route it to the top.

Now to the added features the case offers, first, it comes with a lanyard, I am not a lanyard kind of guy, so I probably will remove it, but they way you install the lanyard, I can assure you the rope will likely break before the connectors do. Then there is a removable belt clip, but its not just a belt clip, it also pulls double duty as a cord wrap for your headphones, pure genius I tell you.

The case definitely isn’t pocketable, so I’ll definitely be making use of the belt clip. But it’s not huge either, like you could put it in a cargo pocket if you had one, or a coat pocket, but not quite a shirt or pants pocket. To be more exact it’s a little thicker than a Zune (counting the belt clip) and about 2 inches longer, and about an inch wider than the iPod Touch, to be exactly exact its 6.2×3.2x.71 inches in size.

I have only found 2 downsides to a case like this, the first, you have to remove your iPod to connect it to your computer or anything else requiring a dock connector, not that big of a problem considering if you are connecting anything to the dock connector, your iPod is probably more or less safe and there isn’t any need for what must be a Mil-Spec iPod case to protect it. The second, no access to the sleep button or whatever you want to call it, once again, not big issues as long as you have your iPod set to automatically turn the screen off after a respectable amount of time.

So, overall, I love this case, and until I get something better, I’ll probably continue using this one. There are even several nifty mounts you can get that work with your OtterBox. If you want your own OtterBox Armor case for iPod Touch, they are $49.95 from their site, or you can get the Defender Series case for the iPod Touch, also from OtterBox, it offers the same protection from physical damage but isn’t sealed from the elements like the Armor case is, its also cheaper at $29.95 direct from their site.