Product Description

The Tuff Luv Leather Case is beautifully hand crafted to meet the exact specifications of your device. If you can splash out for this, like all our other leather cases for your device, you can see Tuff-Luv do not dissapoint! Practical and stylish. A long tradition in making classic cases for all devices. Trust us to look after your mp3 player. Soft yet strong and hard wearing soft napa leather.

Product Details

• Brand: i-nique
• Model: A11_7

Features

• Dual magnetic clasp closure
• Hand made with elegant contrast overstitching
• Cut aways give access to ports and controls so that you can use your device in the case
• Integrated dual stand
• not compatible with Android internet Tablet version 2009. Search for tuff-luv internet tablet version

Customer Reviews

First impressions: Tuff-Luv case for Archos 5
I noticed Tuff-Luv jumped on the release of the Archos 5 with a new custom case for the device. Here are my first impressions:

Good quality case, with all buttons accessable from the sides, including charging LED, both base ports, power, volume and a hole for the speaker on the side.
Smells of high-quality leather, that is soft and pleasantly pliant.
Very nice, clean stitch-work.
Two magnetic latches on the side and bottom, and offers padding from all sides
Case does add some height and width to the device, which is to be expected from a nice hard-shell case, but there isn't really any wasted space, and the case is form-fitting.
Features an extra stand on the back? Maybe for more stability/different viewing angle. The Case also features a cutout to flip back the devices own stand while still in the case.

Overall a very nice and well thought out design. I warmed up to the extra leather stand after seeing how the hard-plastic foot on the device's built-in stand slid around and if bumped the wrong way topples the device over.
Also, anything that makes a nasty scratching sound on my nice wooden desk is destined for a coaster. The leather stand fixes both of these issues perfectly. The hard shell is nice to protect that big touch screen while the device is rattling around in a pocket or briefcase with other items.

Tuff-Luv Premium leather case - Archos 5 (120GB / 250GB)

Great Case, But...
As a case only, I'd give this a 5 - very nicely built, good leather feel and looks nice.

Two issues, however, caused me to downgrade the rating - 1 minor, 1 significant. The minor issue is the bulk the case seems to add to the player - its not a huge addition, but given the fairly hefty size of the Archos 5 to begin with, the case seems to possibly push the size of the 5 plus case to almost obese.

The major issue is that with the way they've designed the case, its impossible to place the 5 on to the battery dock without removing the case. The maddening thing is that if they had placed the front closure and its corresponding magnets a little different, it would have worked (I tested it by repositioning the 5 so that just the leather was between the 5 & the dock and it worked that way.) So the case has to be removed in order to use the battery dock - a big pain seeing that I wanted the 5 to be protected by the case at all times. [I don't have the DVR dock, but I assume the problem applies with it too.]

In the end, a 5 star case gets downgraded to a 3 star rating because faulty design causes incompatibility between the case and the battery dock.

Outstanding product
This item is great! It fits my archos perfectly. The seller was great to deal with as well. Fast shipping. Saw where someone else complained that the charging dock wont fit with case on. This is true but it takes like 2 seconds to pull the archos out of the case. No complaints here would buy again!