it is a bit difficult to figure out how to get on, you have to take the whole thing apart and get it on that way, if you just try to squeeze your phone into it, you'll get nowhere. but once it's on, MAN, it is on, and you can drop kick that thing and not get a scratch on your phone. it raises just enough around the screen to protect from flat drops, the corners are fully protected, it raises above the three lenses on the back enough to protect them, I don't worry about my phone in this case. it fits around all your buttons, and the charger port is always covered until you pop it open yourself to charge it, so no dirt traveling up in there and causing connectivity issues. despite the teeny confusion when you first get it, as i said, just pop it apart in two pieces, put it all together, and treat it as roughly as you would anyway, but without worrying it's getting cracked.