I bought this product early fall 07 and within a week had managed to snag my cell phone on something and rip the mounting button off of the case, ruining it. I recently bought it again. The padding offers good protection from accidental drops. With the new design, the round mounting button is detachable and tears out when I accidentally snag my phone on a table edge. It is designed to fail and then be slid back on to the body of the case. A much improved design... rather than getting ruined and rendered useless, it "fails" appropriately. Also the display screen flap is now full length while the older model only came down part way. Again, better protection.