Having recently become and iPhone 4 convert I decided I desperately needed to get myself a case for it so that I could protect my new shiny gadget.

I looked around online at reviews and asked my friends about hard cases vs silicone and flp cases etc and decided there wasn't much in it and it seems it was very much down to personal opinion. Having some amazon vouchers from Dooyoo I decided to get on Amazon and have a browse.

That's when I found this super cool retro looking phone case! It really looks like an old fashioned tape!! They had the case in a few colours including black, purple, yellow, grey, pink and red and they all had different corresponding colours for the labels etc but I got the black and red one as I thought it looked the most like a real tape and it would look the best with my black iphone.

The tape is really well designed and I think it looks really cool. There are raised bits where there should be, some holes like real tapes have for the reels etc. and the label looks like a real tape. There are holes for some of the relevant plug-ins and cameras; including a hole on the back for camera and flash, one on top for the headphone jack and two on bottom for speaker and microphone.

The only downside is that there is no hole in the case for charge cable, so I have to remove that end of case to charge, this is easy enough though and it helps to maintain sleek design I suppose. It does though mean that there isn't a small flappy piece of silicone which most silicone case users I asked prior to buying moaned about.

The case also isn't too large or thick so it doesnt make phone look bulky or feel too large in your pocket which is really important to me.

This case only cost me about £3 from Amazon and it came in about 3 days so that's very reasonable to me!

It doesn't come with a screen protector which is another niggle but I've just bought one separately.