A good effort but ultimately going in the spares drawer
I grew up in Singapore so I thought I'd support a local company. Have to say I'm disappointed. I now live in the UK and the shipping took forever. Tracking wasn't helpful as the package seemed to sit in places for ages. It sat with Bare for a week before Skynet picked it up and their UK partner was terrible. Three delivery days I stayed home only to be lied to on two of them that the driver hadn't been able to gain access! OK - so when the Bare Naked case and Pane arrived I was pleased with the packaging and approach. Very minimalistic, very subtle and suave. The case itself is great, it fits very well and provides a level of grip to a totally naked iPhone that is reassuring. So far so good. Then I tried to attach my mag-safe wallet. Despite being millimetres thin the case interferes with the magnetic field just enough to make attaching a wallet feel risky and unsafe. OK I thought I'll just have to be aware that it's not a lock tight connection anymore. Or chose to ditch the wallet... um no. Even though the combo case and screen protector cost three times as much as the wallet... OK let's try Pane, the screen protector... nice that there are two.... 20 mins later both are in the bin as they both, in the seconds between taking off the protective film and being placed on the iPhone, attracted ONE speck of dust that created a halo that would not shift. Attempting to remove that one speck of dust just caused a whole load more to drift on to the pane - static electricity and the bare branded 'microfibre' cloth that shed threads and dust as soon as it was taken out of the box. So, PANE was a PAIN and both ended up being a waste of money. So three stars mostly for design and a decent enough case... but without a secure MagSafe connection it's not worth my risk. I'm keeping the case as a spare in case but that's a relegation for something I thought was going to be my ride or die. Just placed an order for an Apple case and ESR screen protectors and still came in cheaper than my Bare purchases.