Analyst: Apple's Bumper case program a win-win for customers and shareholders

I have had my iphone 4 for a month now and I can not make it get worse reception no matter what I do or how I hold it with or without a case. Not one dropped call or reception problem. Of the 5 people in my family that have the iphone4 none have had the problem and they have all had theirs since it was released.

pretty sure the only people that had reception issues with the phone were android users...

I've had the iPhone 4 for two months. Not a single dropped call, no proximity issues (can't say the same for my 3G). IMHO "Antennagate" was/is a tempest in a teapot. The apparently very low return rate demonstrates to me that it was a lot of sound and fury with little substance for the vast majority of users.

I believe that this issue with any other phone manufacturer would have amounted to nothing, but Apple is now the "big dog"... and the rules are different. Any hiccup, any flaw... will be pounced on by link baiting writers and hardwired Apple haters. That's just life in the big city...

I have to agree with others. I now have 3 cases for my iPhone 4. 1 bumper, free PixelSkin from Apple and free case from Squaretrade. The Apple bumper is by far and again the best. It fits so perfectly and all the ports are cut just right. My only complaint would be it only works with Apple dock cables, many other cable simply won't fit in with the bumper. But not really a big deal cause almost all my cables are actual Apple cables.

...again...
I bought a robot wife, but she had Gonnorrhea, Apple said just don't touch her there, but if you do here's a free rubber, no fix , no refund.

I noticed the picture contains all white iphone 4s. Why hasn't there been an update on when we can expect to get one. I promised one to my fiancee and it's making me look bad :)

I have a problem with this whole antenna gate thing.
I hate how apple is saying most people don't have an issue..
The fact of the matter is when the iPhone 4 is put in a certain place, and held a certain way (the way most people hold it) ALL iPhone 4's will experience signal drop. Its a fact. Its not like only a few iPhones 4 are "defective", ALL of them are. Now for me its not a big deal. I mostly use data on my iPhone and do not call allot. So to me its not a problem. but for Apple to imply that each individual iPhone 4 is different is just plan dishonest. The real difference here is the users. I think apple should continue to provide cases until they actually do something to the phone to fix the issue.

Just finally made the leap to the 4 this week, was waiting until closer to the Sept 30th date just in "case" Apple learned more about the issue and came up with other fixes. I am extremely pleased. One thing I think people fail to mention. The reception (if you evaluate it separately from the issues demonstrated during antennagate, that I _am_ able to duplicate) is greatly improved. For me this was a big plus, I can now take calls in my basement where I couldn't with my 3G.

BTW, the same antennagate issues existed on my 3G, albeit they were more difficult to reproduce, you had to basically muffle the antenna on the bottom of the phone with your entire palm.

This improved reception (when accounting for the antenna placement) along with the improvements in voice quality, image quality, and processor responsiveness, make this a very welcome upgrade.

As for future fixes, I'm wondering if Apple can simply "move" the sensitive antenna area to the gap that exists on the top of the phone near the headset jack, if a coating or something similar doesn't do the trick. That would seem to be a much less likely spot for people to violate during normal usage and it would be a lot like the days of the nubby protruding antennas on the dumb phones. I'd hate to seem them back away from the current iPhone 4 form factor.

My iPhone does not have the antenna issue anywhere I go. Austin, LA, San Diego... Weird.

Hopefully the end of this program means I may be able to get an orange bumper! It is so weird how a little colored piece of plastic is so difficult to get.

I never had the antenna issue, and neither did anyone I talked to who owned an iPhone 4.
A few did have the issue with the proximity sensor, which seems like the real issue to me.

The problem is, everyone knows what "reception" is, so news companies got more interest if they claimed there was an issue with that. Not everyone would click a story about a "proximity sensor" if they didn't know what it was.

Thus, one "problem" is blown out or proportion, while another one is ignored.

For the record, I never had an issue with either.