A cradle-cassette apparatus encases and selectively displays an electronic device such as a mobile communications device. The cradle-cassette apparatus includes a cradle and a cassette. The cradle is sized and shaped to removably receive such an electronic device. The cradle includes anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, and lateral cradle sections. The cassette is sized and shaped to translatably receive the cradle construction. The cassette includes anterior, posterior, superior, inferior, and lateral cassette sections. A hinge-axis is provided by way of cooperative structure associated with the lateral cradle and cassette sections. The cradle construction is thus translatably displaceable relative to the cassette construction for positioning the cradle-cassette apparatus in either a cradle-closed position or a cradle-exposed position. The anterior cradle and cassette sections face in the same direction when in the cradle-exposed position, and the anterior cradle and cassette sections facing in opposite directions when in the cradle-closed position.