Naked phones look the best. Case was a no brainer for me on this particular model. And it looks pretty great!
It's a badly designed phone, but I agree with you using a case for this model is a must, even if its just to try and hide the hideous mess that is the iPhone 6.
Personally, I find the phone itself looks great. I actually like the look better than the 5. To each his own I guess.
Even the fact they couldn't fit the camera in the shell so it won't sit flat?
I think the back of the phone looks better and more balanced than the 5 (I disliked the balance of the glass an aluminum) , but think the best looking phone they have ever made (and best looking phone ever) is the 4, in black.
But yeah each to there own I guess, there are things I like about the design (the curved glass sides feel great but only if you use it naked because with a case they are gone), but I think over-all it's a huge step backwards and a step into generic metal phone land.
I'll definitely agree with you on the protruding camera. They could have made it a few mm thicker to flush that up. But then again, if you're like me and probably many others who automatically put a case on their device from day one, those few mm can mean all the difference for a thinner feeling cased phone. Which is why I assume they went that direction. I'd be interested to see the stats on how many people use naked vs case.
I miss the curved feeling of the glass with no case. But even a screen protector alone kills that feeling.
I used it naked for a while and then got a snap on case becasue of the slippery nature of the phone... that case then just got a whole **** load of stuff trapped in it due to the curved sides of the phone and so haven't used a case for the last month or so.
Aside from the camera protruding out the back for no good reason (I can't believe any designer worth anything would design a product to be better when covered up by some random 3rd party selling a cheap mass produced plastic (mostly) case), there is also the terrible decision to line up the lock button with the volume controls.
With the phone already really pretty difficult to handle adding this only makes using it a lot harder and makes locking the phone by accident when watching something pretty easy. I also really don't like that the volume controls are the same size when one has two functions and the other only has the one, there is no way by feel to differentiate the two without pressing the wrong one first, it wasn't as bad on the 5 and 4 because those had imprints on them for + and - making it easier to remember by feel.
The reason I guess I'm so negative about the 6 is that they went from the 3Gs one of, the most ugly 'smart' phones ever made, it's hideous really and made of really ****ty nasty plastics with that god awful chrome boarder around the screen... they went from that to the best looking phone (imo) ever made, the 4... they then went to the 5 which in all back looks so bad-ass, though it's strange backing with the glass and metal was an interesting choice it didn't take too much away from the over-all phone.
But with the 6, the whole look and design takes so much away from using the device and just having it as a piece of design (something Apple has prided themselves on with other devices).
The iPhone is the premium phone, it has more money spent on RnD and design than any other on the market (including those chavy diamond and crocodile skinned android phones) and this is the best they could come up with?