When I’m shopping for a cell phone, I really don’t care about a lot of its accessories or what kind of cell phone case it comes in. I care mostly about its reception. I don’t want to be talking on the phone with someone and then get cut off because I walked under a tree or something ridiculous like that. Where I used to live, there was a huge tree growing out front and it always interfered with phone reception inside the house. It proved to be a nuisance . In order to talk on the phone I had to walk down the street a block just to slightly be able to hear what the person on the other end of the line was saying . Why have a cell phone if you cannot use it on the go? It is impossible to keep it if the phone never works anywhere . You can walk around with it and talk. Apparently modern technology isn’t so modern when it doesn’t even work . I don’t pay a bill every month to be out wandering around like an idiot. I need the phone to withstand being dropped a thousand times . I have a habit of dropping it once or twice a day . There’s wear and tear on everything. You can’t help that. No one can. It’s just the way of things. It depends on the model but you can find a phone that will last you a long time even with some brutal battering . The durability and reliability of the phone is what makes them worth the hundred dollars you spend on them .