Follow these steps to apply for a Bumper or case.
1. Download the iPhone 4 Case Program app from the App Store.
2. Launch the app on your iPhone 4 and sign in using your iTunes Store account or Apple ID.
3. Select your Bumper or case.
For iPhone 4 purchases made before July 23, 2010, you must apply no later than August 22, 2010; otherwise, you must apply within 30 days of your iPhone 4 purchase. To qualify for this program, you must purchase your iPhone 4 by September 30, 2010. Read terms and conditions.
The iPhone 4 Case Program app is available via Apple’s iTunes Store here.
@Cover Up
“I want the real fix – a newly engineered antenna. I expect to be able to exchange my crippled model for one that works as promised by Steve Jobs himself during the over hyped launch at WWDC.
Expect the NEW iP4 to be available around the first of October.”
“Expect” all you want. It ain’t happening. If you don’t like the phone, RTDTAGYMB and STFU!
Just ordered the clear Belkin. Feel a little guilty since I’ve been trying to drop calls without success. I’m going into San Francisco tonight so I’ll try to drop calls again…
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Why isn’t there an app to turn your black phone into a white model?
For people who don’t want to scratch up their phones, what are they supposed to do in the interim? Why not just hand them out upon purchase?
I usually get a skin to protect the phone but don’t need it if I’m getting a bumper. But the bumper could take a week or two to arrive – what are we supposed to do?
Stupid decision.
@ Bongo –
Actually, the App says bumpers will take three to five weeks to deliver.
In the meantime, you are free to use the phone as is, or buy another case you can pass along to someone else when you get your FREE case.
Some people are never happy.
P.S. I never got a case for my first-generation iPhone, and it held up just fine (even after dropping it on the ground a couple dozen times or so over the past three years). Did it get scratched? Yeah. So what? It’s a phone, not a priceless antique. Still worked great and looked great…
My OtterBox Defender case came today and it is awesome!
Get one!
@WriterGuy
It’s not a case of never happy. Logically, what good is a free case if you need to buy another case to protect the phone/improve reception until the bumper arrives in 6 weeks. It just doesn’t make any sense at all. The gesture of giving a free case becomes meaningless, both in terms of the cost if the case and the quality of the phone until it ships.
Wouldn’t it also be more economical and easier to implement if they just shipped mass amounts of bumpers to AT&T and Apple retail stores?
Having to go through an app and wait six weeks is ridiculous.
@WriterGuy
I don’t want to scratch upy phone because it increases the amount I can get when I decide to sell it. It might be a foreign concept to you but some people either don’t want to or cannot afford to waste money.
@ El Guapo
What’s wrong, may I ask, with wanting the phone promised by Steve Jobs?
I know with absolute certainty that those world class Apple engineers are working overtime in their $100 million labs designing a real fix for the faulty antenna.
A revised – meaning fixed – iP4 will be available in October. I will demand my crippled phone be exchanged and I will get it. Just watch.
@WriterGuy
Check and mate. Nice playing with you.
By the way, I researched all the free cases Apple is offering and I recommend the Belkin. Only the Belkin is 1/8th inch thick flexible clear silicon like protection all round the antennae plus the front edge so the screen won’t get scratched. All the rest are hard.
You can see all the choices at http://engadget.com article on the free cases including screen shots of the new Case Order app so you can see the eight offerings without having to own an iPhone 4. WARNING: Once you order your case, the app self-destructs so you can’t look at the choices any more.
So make sure you’ve studied it well and made screen shots for your photo library before you order so you can show others after you do.
So – Apple gives people another thing to complain about. 3 to 4 weeks to ship the bumpers? All well and good to give them away. But they really ought to find a way to get these things out faster than that or they may have a “bumper-gate” on their hands. Just wait. Not only that – but don’t forget, September 30th is the date they’re supposed have made a decision about a longer term course of action. The plot thickens…..
I got mine. It fixes the antenna issue.
Pick a color;
This is kind cool
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I surrendered and bought the 32 GB iPhone.
I am in love!
Hey, what gives? I don’t see that program in my app store.