There is provided by this invention a protective enclosure for a personal
electronic device that is generally comprised of a shell that is capable
of enclosing and substantially surrounding the electronic device disposed
to make the shell substantially watertight, substantially rigid and
substantially crush-resistant. The enclosure has a transparent flexible
protective membrane that is integrally fixed on the shell so that the
flexible protective membrane is positioned over the touch screen of the
electronic device when the electronic device is enclosed in the shell.
The flexible protective membrane having a back side that has a
substantially planar smooth surface that is adjacent to the touch screen
of the electronic device wherein tactile inputs on a front side of the
flexible protective membrane are communicated to the touch screen through
the transparent flexible protective membrane. The enclosure also has a
second transparent flexible protective membrane that is integrally fixed
on the shell so that the flexible protective membrane is positioned over
an alphanumeric keyboard of the electronic device forming a keyboard in
the flexible protective membrane such that the flexible protective
membrane has total interface with the enclosed keyboard allowing the user
to use the keyboard of the enclosed electronic device through the
flexible protective membrane.