{"id":22407,"date":"2010-06-26T10:20:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T09:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=22407"},"modified":"2010-06-26T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T09:26:35","slug":"want-a-free-apple-bumper-case-complain-to-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/want-a-free-apple-bumper-case-complain-to-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a FREE Apple Bumper Case? Complain to Apple."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just got a tip from Twitter user @Mohsin_M <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mohsin_M\/status\/17080221702\" target=\"_blank\">which seems to suggest<\/a> Apple may today be giving customers in the UK a FREE Apple bumper case for their new iPhone 4 if they&#8217;re bold enough to walk into an Apple Store and complain. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new bumper case which follows the company&#8217;s recent attempt at designing their own case for the iPad, is basically a piece of coloured flex rubber which stretches itself around the outer ring of the phone. This in turn is reported to solve the <em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/got-the-iphone-4-death-grip-reception-issue-ios-4-0-1-dropping-as-early-as-monday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Death Grip<\/a>&#8220;<\/em> issue in its entirety, due to the case being specifically designed to completely cover the metal band which now acts as the device&#8217;s GSM antenna. <\/p>\n<p>Today, a thread over on HotUKDeals started by user &#8216;fredsmithers&#8217; seems to suggest UK users are actually having success in winging a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotukdeals.com\/item\/707186\/iphone-4-free-apple-bumpers-in-the-\" target=\"_blank\">FREE Apple bumper case<\/a> from the company, by simply complaining to the staff of the death grip issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Apparently, according to a BBC 5Live interview today, iPhone 4 users who go to the Apple store to complain about the &#8216;left hand lost signal phenomenon&#8217; are being given a free Apple Bumper to alleviate the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Post on this thread if you have success in getting one.<\/p>\n<p>I did wonder when first seeing the bumper exactly why it had been designed to only protect the edge. And, AFAIK, it&#8217;s the first time Apple have offered a &#8216;case&#8217; for sale with a device.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that Apple was pre-empting a known problem.<\/p>\n<p>These bumpers retail for \u00a325, so are not at all bad for free<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That said, Apple are sure to catch onto this soon, so let us know if any of you have any success in snagging one for yourself!<\/p>\n<p>[via @Mohsin_M]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just got a tip from Twitter user @Mohsin_M which seems to suggest Apple may today be giving customers in the UK a FREE Apple bumper case for their new iPhone 4 if they&#8217;re bold enough to walk into an Apple Store and complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,16],"tags":[1705,3430,196,3431,3406,3429,1543,2445,434,3432],"class_list":["post-22407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-iphone","tag-apple-store","tag-bunper","tag-case","tag-complain","tag-customers","tag-death-grip","tag-device","tag-iphone-4","tag-new","tag-reception-issue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22412,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions\/22412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}