Hi Quentin, Thank you for your detailed reply. In answer to your first question, the flip case I was shown had a smooth hard back so it was designed in such a way that to use it I would have had to remove the back of the phone to expose the battery/sim card and then place the phone in the case. Having read your message all the way through I think it's a bumper stile case that I'm really after. I'll have a look around the net and speak to a few people and see if I can find one either in a shop here in Birmingham UK, or for sale online by a company in the UK. Alexander Shannon