The look and style are nice and the two buckles are really nicely operating - ...

I bought this backpack as a present to my husband. He is not really a fan of it. The look and style are nice and the two buckles are really nicely operating - but that's about it. Every other design decisions went very wrong for this backpack. It is too large for everyday use but too small for travel. It does not compete with hiking backpacks for day hikes because it is too heavy for that. The top pocket is too small for being useful, it's even hard to fit large sunglasses into it. The front pocket (you can see it by the flap on pictures) is only accessible when the buckles are open and the top is folded away because there is a zipper that runs around the pocket underneath the flap and it is really high on both sides - why to do this? If you can not get into the pocket without all those operations then you are as good getting into the main compartment. The side pockets for the bottles are zipped as well - and not in a nice way: you have to use two hands to unzip them because the flap bands over the zipper and gets into it. Same story for the side zipper where my husband carries his laptop - you need two hands to open or close it. So, over-all the use of this backpack is way more complex than it could have been if designers would take care of usability and not just looks.

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