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The Pixel 5's time to shine may be over now that the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are here, but that doesn't mean the phone in your hand is any less stellar than it was a year ago. Keep that bio resin back look clean for another year or two by wrapping it in one of our favorite cases for the Google Pixel 5.
This is my favorite Pixel 5 case, and it only costs $10
It's navy, it's grippy, it's the absolute perfect thickness
Being clumsy and handling expensive smartphones is not a good combination for me. That's why, for the past decade or so, all of my phones have gone into cases from the moment I took them out of the box. Looking for new case designs is a bit of a side hobby for me, so when I bought my Pixel 5, I followed a hunch and got the navy Gesma TPU case. That hunch paid off big time. I really love it.So why am I qualified to talk to you about this, you might wonder? Over the last years, I have bought, tried, liked, or dismissed hundreds of TPU cases for my phones. (I love the material for its flexibility and shock absorption.) I have wasted days, nay weeks, checking eBay for new case designs, colors, and brands. I know the cheap and midrange $2-15 case market like the back of my hand. Brands you might have heard of like Spigen, Ringke, Cruzerlite, Caseology, others you might not be familiar with, like IMAK, X-Level, Diztronic, Gviewinn, Tudia, Nillkin, Goospery, Nekeda, plus the generic cases you find under hundreds of names on Amazon and eBay.I've reached a point where I can see a case in a product image and immediately intuit how it'd feel in my hand. That's how much I'm confident in my experience with this product category. And that's why when I saw the Gesma case, it immediately reminded me of a navy Diztronic case I'd had several years ago on one of my LG phones and that I loved. So I bought it, and I haven't taken it off my phone since I got it, nearly six months ago.