This thoughtfully designed, top-loading pouch warms my heart with subtle design elements. Take the choice of materials. The outside is a thick, durable cotton with a pronounced weave and Golla’s neat “funk” design printed on somehow. Permanently. I tried to scratch it off with my fingernail and could not damage it. The front panel is well padded, and stitched in squares like a quilt, but the stitching doesn’t go all the way through – it’s covered on the back with a wale.
Corduroy wale, that is, dyed the same bold red as the rest of the materials. The color matches excellently, no mean feat for materials of different weight, content, and texture. On the inside of the flap, two Velcro strips, also dyed red, join a single, wider, Velcro strip on the other side to hold the case closed around your treasure. The inside of the flap subtly repeats the funk design. How they managed to print or otherwise apply that design on the textured corduroy I don’t even want to imagine, but it works beautifully and looks awesome.
The pouch itself, which is also well padded, has been lined in a smooth nylon of a beige-ish color. It’s echoed on the side by a zippered pocket for which I could see lots of uses like Bluetooth (or otherwise) headset. An open pocket on the inside is self-lined. It’s not padded, but the flap folds over it and secures its contents from falling out, while protecting whatever’s in it from harm.
In short, the structure of this case is outstanding, offering padding where padding is needed, slick materials where stuff has to slide over it, secure closure where appropriate, and a majorly sweet, designer look to the whole thing.
Besides impressing all who think fire trucks aren’t red enough, my Golla Funk pouch gives excellent protection to the treasures I entrust to it, in turn. While the phone is in the case’s clutches, however, it’s not very accessible. My Bluetooth headsets still work, and I can still snake a wire out to my wired stereo headset, but there’s no charging, IR beaming, or eyeballing the screen to see who’s calling. Indeed, unless I’m using a headset I can’t answer a call without opening the case and retrieving the phone. For the other benefits of this pouch, and with the convenience of answering (and rejecting) calls with a headset, I can deal.
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