Hey Darius. Yeah, you can see those hash marks pretty clearly at the bottom of the case above the docking port opening. I also have the swirl or 'rainbow effect' all over the metal facia which really detracts from the look of the case. To be honest the look is probably one of the aspects I am most disappointed with...It does not look as polished as the pictures on the site is is actually a lot larger (see 'thicker') than I was expecting.
Which brings me to the 2 biggest problems. First, just like the Revo 2, the integrated visor is completely useless. I can appreciate that iSkin made efforts to improve the design by connecting it to the front and making it 'touch-compatible' but they fell very short in terms of fit and effectiveness. I removed my screen film from my naked iPhone and cleaned the surface throughly with the included LCD anti-static cloth to see how it would work. I found that the touch screen would only respond to anything in the inner 70% of the screen. Unfortunatlely the most critical functions on the iPhone tend to be at the corners (i.e. 'Cancel' or 'Send' in email or the browser navigation button in Safari) and these do not respond at all....I mean I hammered on them and nothing! I may just do a youtube video to show how funny it is...I actually had to open the case just to get to these buttons so I could view my email again. I suspect this is due to the fact that the screen protector is connected to the front facia at the edges which pulls the protector away from the edges of the touchscreen since it connected to the case front and not the phone...once I removed the screen protector and put on the anti-glare/anti fingerprint from my Revo 2 it works fine...except for issue #2.
The edges around the touch screen on the front facia are VERY deep. I found typing with the Revo 2 difficult due to these corners getting in the way of your fingetips, but it was a minor annoyance with the Revo. It's practically impossible with the fuze! This make the case pretty much unusable for me. Too bad I had to throw another $50 at iSkin to find that out...but leason learned, I will not buy another case with a front protector that comes close to the touch screen. I'll take some pics latter to show just how thick this sucker is in the front and how difficult it is to access the buttons. Really disappointing effort by iSkin overall with this case.
BTW to answer your question the ringer switch is very difficult to maneuver...again due to the thickness of this case. The tip if the swtich is acutally below the edges of the case (which you can see pretty clearly in your pictures) so you have to have a finger or nail that's narrow enough to get between the edges or push really hard to get the fleshy part of your fingertip on it...otherwise you're out of luck.
I'm really baffled by the thickness of this design. The website claims only 3 mm thick but you can see clearly from the pics in this thread how much space there is between the surface of the case and the touchscreen. Way more than is displayed by the marketing shots on the website. Why not make the front a thin hard plastic with rounded edges around the touch-screen that are more finger-friendly (ergonomically correct)? I can only assume that the designers felt that this space between the edge and the screen may give better frontal impact protection but if somthing hits the front that is not as wide as the case front the screen is done for anyway...a few millimeters of case front depth isn't going to matter. Plus the integrated protector sits on the inside of the front facia so I can't understand why you would want so much separation with the screen and the top of the case...wouldn't you want them to be a flush as possible?
