Pink Ribbon Giveaway: OtterBox Strength Cases for iPhone and iPod Nano
July 6, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
According to Merriam-Webster, strength is:
- The quality or state of being strong : capacity for exertion or endurance
- Power to resist force : solidity, toughness
- Power of resisting attack : impregnability
How fitting that OtterBox’s new line of pink cases to support the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade is named “Strength”.
My source at OtterBox explained this to me recently:
“Specializing in protective cases for technology and valuables, OtterBox now offers limited edition pink “Strength” cases for the iPhone and nano 3rd generation (coming soon for 3G iPhone). With an online order of an OtterBox “Strength” case, 10% of the purchase price will be donated to the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade to support access to care and finding a cure for breast cancer, with a focus on the medically underserved.”
Here’s some fun for you … I received two cases to review and giveaway to two lucky Pink Ribbon Readers: one from their iPhone Defender series and another from their iPod Nano 3rd Generation Defender series.
Why do you need these?
- Well, if you have an iPhone (if you plan on getting one on Friday when the new one is released — twice as fast, half the price — you’ll have to wait for a new case), you must know — it’s a slippery little bugger.
- If you have an iPod Nano, you know there’s no protection as it sits without a case — and if you like to tote it along with you to the gym, the beach, camping, wherever … you might want to keep it safe from harm.
Straight away I want to tell you, the boxes had me jazzed … a special label is adhered to each, with a full product description, stamped with a “Help Fight Breast Cancer” badge, an obvious reference to the specific charity they support and information about the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade as well.
Now, for the products themselves:
- The cases themselves aren’t intrinsically easy to open. However, once you pull out the directions, you’ll be able to figure it out and feel confident that they won’t fall apart, either.
- On the iPhone, the button pass-through is great — it’s not any harder to push any of the buttons and actually, feels easier, for whatever reason — maybe it is psychological.
- The iPhone’s built in speaker passes through the cover easily — so there’s no barrier to use there.
- The iPhone model comes with a beltclip that is very similar to the clip that comes with a Blackberry — so if you’re used to that, it’ll feel very comfortable for you.
- The headphone and dock connectors are accessible, however, you’ll have to remove this from the case in order to plug it into a sound/speaker dock.
- The silicone makes each product just a little bit bulkier in your hand, but it feels more secure and you don’t get the feeling that either unit is going to slip out of your hands.
- The cases fits very snug — so they’re not as easy to fit in your pocket but it is definitely protective.
The iPhone case retails for $50 and the iPod Nano case is $30 — but one can be yours if you follow these very specific instructions! (Of course, you can always order one online here — they’re worth the price.)
- Leave a comment on this post completing this sentence: “Strength is … ” Here’s an example: Strength is waking up the morning after your chemotherapy treatment and making your kid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for their school lunch.
- Include which case you’re hoping for (obviously if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Nano you’ll be disappointed later if that’s the one I select for you so let’s be clear from the get-go). It’s okay to say either one!
This contest ends at midnight on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 (EST). Only qualifying entries will be considered and winners will be pulled at random the next day and posted asap. Only participants in the US are eligible (sorry my foreign friends, I can’t spend a fortune on shipping).
Good luck!
(Image: Karen Lynch)
I’ve known two wonderful women who are survivors of breast cancer. One, a former coworker named Rose a few years ago-and most recently Mrs. Gurney, one my my 6 year olds favorite afterschool care/summer camp teachers. This past fall, we held a fund raiser for Mrs. Gurney to help her with her astronomical medical expenses. She has been an inspiration to us all, tired after chemo, but still a champion educator to the children who know and love her. Strength is not giving up, but facing every day with a smile-accepting each new day as a challenge and using your beauty from within on days when you look in the mirror and want to cry.
(Rose had beautiful long hair, during treatment she lost that. She took it very hard, but she never lost her sense of humor, going from wigs to bandannas, to nothing. After her chemo was done, she kept a nice new short cut, and was actually laughing at herself for looking like a 50+ biker chick before chemo. Her new cut, and new attitude-were great.) If I win, the iPod nano case would be perfect! Thanks for having the giveaway, it made me really think about the courage and inner strength these two lovely ladies possess.
Strength is making jokes to your grandkids about the external fluid sacks hanging off your pelvis as you face breast cancer. Strength is my grandmother. Strength is racing a bike race to raise money for other people with cancer, when you have cancer yourself. Strength is my father.
If I win, the ipod nano case would be stellar.
Strength is going through tough stuff and managing to live your life the way you want anyway.
I have a nano so the nano case would be awesome.
Strength is getting up each morning, creating normality, after the death of a child.
I would like the nano case.
Strength is raising your kid sister after your mom passes away in 6 months time from breast cancer. It is being the “mom” to your 4 siblings. It is being the dad when no dad is around after your mom passed. It is working a fulltime job, going to school fulltime, and coming home to do the laundry and make dinner because you are now the adult of the house.
Strength is not being able to see your mom any more, but knowing she is there with you…ALWAYS!
Strength is the love of family.
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Either one is fine.
Strength is being yourself.
Strength is voting Republican Party.
THANK YOU GOD BLESS
strength is everyone staying together united
Strength is getting out of bed some days, driving your loved one to treatment,watching them struggle to try to live. Strength is being there for them, and being there when they’re gone.
They say tragedy makes one stronger. All in all, I’d rather take vitamins and hit the gym.
Strenght is having a positive attitude no matter how bad things seem to be at the time, and to never give up
Strength is going on with your life even after your reality has been altered severely.
I have an iPhone and would love that case if I win. Thank you!
Strength is getting out of bed every morning and doing what you have to do even though you don’t want to do anything at all.
I would like the iPhone cover if I win.
Strength is getting up everyday and going to work to support your family!
Strength is confidence. I’m hoping for the Ipod nano case. Thanks for the giveaway!!
OtterBox Defender iPod Nano case is strength and so is finding a way to make a difference in life
Strengh is living day to day with the struggles of financial difficulty and still being able to love, laugh and share time with your family.
If I should be a lucky winner, I would have to pick the iPod nano case…just too cute!!!
Strength is having the courage to speak up and tell when you have been raped or molested.
I would need ipod nano case
Strength is being yourself.
Strength is watching your grandma going through every chemotherapy treatment at her bedside just to support her through it.
Strength is watching your grandfather die of lung cancer and being there at his death bed and the last thing he says is “Ill be at your wedding, one way or another”. Strength is knowing he will be there.
I would be interested in the Iphone case the most but I could use ethier one!
strength is facing you challenges head on each and every day without excuses
Strength is epitomized in my husband when he learned how to walk again after his multiple surgeries, and when he never complains about the pain even when I know its intense, and he still takes care of me during my bad days even when I know he has it one hundred times worse.
Strength is being old, yet looking at life through the eyes of a child.
i’m in!
Strength is not always parallel with love and/or devotion, but rather training your senses to resist…it is not always about what you want, but rather what you want for others…Strength is standing up when you want to sit down. Never let go of your strength, because it is awful to lose.
(Nano)
Strength is…a quality I thought I had until I see my girlfriend, the same age as me, battle breast cancer.Radiation, loss of her gorgeous hair and forced menopause. What does she do?
She decides to volunteer at the Childrens Hospital because she says they are far worse off than her and she is able to cheer them; they make her forget.
That’s what strength is.
Now I know what strength is.
Strength is not giving up when every month my paycheck’s disappear into gas and bills.
i’d like to iphone case if i win
thanks
Strength is being able to put the people you hold dear to your heart first. Being considerate and thoughtful are a few of the strongest characters one can poses in life. Cherish those who look up to you, always respect yourself and everything will fall in its place.
I would like the iphone case if I’m the lucky winner
Thank you,
Yvette
Strength is being able to live with the decisions you make in life. Only you have the power to make yourself stronger!!!
Iphone please;)
Kayla Ilene
Strength is standing up for what is right, no matter what people think…and defending your best friend, even though she has been bullied at school because of her appearance…and risking your other ‘friendships’ in defense of this person you care about…it is something I am learning right now from my 13 year old daughter…who is the strongest and most amazing person I know…who is still liked by many girls but refuses to do what the ‘majority’ is doing, no matter what ’social risks’ she is taking…
Iphone please…thank you!!!! (this is for my amazing daughter…if I win…)
Strength is a Choice.
Strength is staying positive during troubled times. I would like the ipod video. Thanks for the chance.
Strength is living one day at a time, one hour at a time with a cavernous void of emptiness inside and the knowledge that a person you love so completely is no longer in this world with you.
Stength is living in the way God intended us to live,in honor of his Son Jesus who sacraficed his life for our sins.
Strength is believing in yourself and others, no matter what!
Strength is speaking your mind…even if your voice shakes. Strength is empowering our little girls so they can grow to be powerful women.
I’d love to win either one, pink is my favorite color!
seeryusfam@msn.com
Strength come from your heart, mind and soul!
Self-confidence
Strength is inner confidence and knowing that YOU choose what affects YOU!
I like that nano case!!!!
strength is never giving in.
i prefer the ipod.
Strength is embracing your weaknesses instead of fearing them.
I would like the ipod nano case. Thanks!
Strength is the power to go the distance.
Srength comes from within.
Strength is continuing to live my life the best way I can despite having my passion and career of teaching snatched away after an accident at work that left me 100% permanently disabled with a chronic pain condition for which there is no cure. Yes, I know that was a major run-on sentence…..
Thanks!
Michele (CA)
luvkittysmeowmail@gmail.com
Strength is puking your guts out all night and still getting up and going to work on time! Thanks for the contest!
indyfree07@hotmail.com
Strength is taking care of your sister dying from cancer night and day for 7 weeks in the hospital trying to keep her alive for her 6 yr old daughter and the rest of her kids and hubbie. I would like the ipod nano case. Thanks!
….withstanding all for your family.
Strength is being able to see the light at the end of the tunnel, even through horrible situations.
and i’d love the nano case, for my new nano, i’m afraid to take it anywhere, they’re so slippery!
-thanks for the giveaway!
Strength is family. I am hoping for the iPhone case.
Strength is believing in yourself, while allowing others to do the same.
Strength is supporting your family has your mom fights and loses to breast cancer. I choose the ipod case.