I've had mine about 6 months, use it without a case. Thing to remember, like with any big screen touch phone, is not to put keys or change in the same pocket.
With the case its far too big and chunky!
I'm quite harsh on phones, and I do throw them around a bit, throw them in boxes full of other stuff, and bury keys into them.
The gay, admittedly with an Incipio rear cover and a screen protector, shows little sign of any abuse. Minor scratching on the 'chrome' plastic around front face.
Yet I know someone who dropped hers (a new mum - buggy, baby, bag hung on handle thing), smashed the screen rather unexpectedly. Though Pinky and MDTM, take care with yours, as I've now seem 2 X10s with smashed screens.
But gayPhone fanatics, like all gay Apple followers, are always blinkered and do not see beyond the overpriced, limited junk that comes out of
China Cupertino, and assume iPhone is the 'best'. My eldest brother (also a gaphone owner after seeing how shite his Gooseberry was at email) is the same with BMW, believing they must be the best. I suspect a certain Admin here is the same with GM products.
There is no 'best', its horses for courses. My killer app need is email, web, RDP, Logmein and Citrix, in that order. I have specific needs around email that only Windows and (later) iPhones can manage well. So I use what is best for me and avoid iTunes (which is a useless heap of junk), gay as that might sound...
...I guess to some, the status symbol of an iPhone (no, I dont understand that either) is more important than what it does for them...