Actually, I was always a bad opinion of Hard Cases, Covers preferred silicone. But this one has me a belerht better. I previously knew only the hard cases, the / were extremely thick and bulky anfühlten like cheap Hard plastic. This one, plastic is made of a painted and some soft piece, which feels very good, but unfortunately also attracts fingerprints magically. It is a coated, in my case, gray rubber edge, which juts over the device and protects the glass when it lies down with the front somewhere. It is perfectly finished, all the cut-outs for camera, speakers, S-Pen, etc. are in place and hinder in any way the respective function. Another feature that I really like is that there are no cutouts for the buttons, but they are just incorporated again into the rubber edge. The envelope is not difficult and increases the unit seriously, which is quite important for me.
Now a couple of negatives: Between the actual Hardplatik and rubber edge a small stage in which collects dirt, nothing serious, but might have can be solved better, well I do not mind. Another problem I had with the color choice. I have a gray note and the shells are available in white / light gray, pink / light gray, black (gloss) / dark blue and so I had to choose only times long which would fit the halfway. Otherwise a very good accessory and for Galaxy Note 2 owners definitely a recommendation!