Cygnett: I used a couple of Cygnett’s cases over the past few months on both iPhone and iPad and can vouch for the quality. The company already has a few designs for iPhone 5 available, including an aluminum version of its UrbanShield case in black and white and a genuine carbon fibre version (both pictured above).

Case-Mate has its Barely There case available in a variety of colors for iPhone 5, but it also has a huge lineup of cases already available for order on its website.

Tough cases: If you can’t hold out for Otterbox’s new Defender series, you can still get some nice protective cases today with Case-Mate’s Tough Case, The Trident AEGIS series case, and Seido’s Active case.