Mobile Phone News :Proporta Smart Pouches – Hessian and Leather – Review

Proporta, our favourite case manufacturer, have just launched a new range with a difference. I’m not talking new colours here or an I before the name, I’m talking about a real difference, especially on the …

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Proporta, our favourite case manufacturer, have just launched a new range with a difference. I’m not talking new colours here or an I before the name, I’m talking about a real difference, especially on the environment.



Proporta have launched their new Smart range, eco-friendly cases made from almost totally recycled materials. They class it as a sustainable product randge and what they are doing is really very clever.

The retail “packaging” in our Recycled Leather Case is made from bamboo and doubles-up as a tough, rigid lining to protect the screen of your device.

We’ve been sent two different “Smart” cases, both eco-friendly and both with the funky bamboo product hanger / protection plate. We’ll start with my favourite, the Hessian case.

Proporta Smart Hessian Case


The Hessian case looks original and stylish, we’re used to leather(ette) and coloured silicon or foam or other foreign feeling materials but there’s something really strangely nice about the feel of Hessian. It’s soft and strong and so makes for a really good material for a phone case. Perhaps it was the 6 years lugging 25kg bags of potatoes up a large hill working for a local butchers but that’s a different story.

While it’s obviously not going to provide huge amounts of drop or shock protection I don;t think that matters anymore. Most cases can’t really protect from a real life drop so what’s the point in trying to. Once people are educated enough to know their phones have to last the average person 18 months and cost usually about £400 at point of sale you either a) treat it like the valuable it is and and not drop or throw it or b) take out suitable insurance.

However what is often needed is protection from the pocket or desk itself. How many times have you put your keys in the same pocket, them remembering and frantically pulling out your phone hoping all the paint is still there. This case will protect you from that.

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