Iphone 4 Bumper arrived

[Skywatcher]

Much much betetr made than I had anticipated, can see why it will cost them a small fortune - I went for the black one but it isn't just rubber it has metal keys on it as well and shiny plastic

Cant see a perseptable difference in signal as yet, although I never really had an issue before

Pro's - its looks nice and is well made and will help when I drop it

Cons, it has taken away all that was beautiful about the phone, the aluminium case was a thing of rare beauty in a gadget

So my verdict is -----> m'eh

[josh.p.]

I think it's such a shame that the lovely design is encased by a rubber thing now

I do wonder though, if they could put a plastic coating onto the arial? Like a thin silver paint or something to solve the 'issues'?

[MarkE]

Surely if you didn't have issues before, you could just carry on without the bumper?

[Skywatcher]

It was over hyped in the 1st place in my opinion, couldn't help but feel there was some sort of alternate agenda going on

[Skywatcher]

Surely if you didn't have issues before, you could just carry on without the bumper?

Oh I think I probably will, but only having put it on at lunchtime I'll give it a trial

I got one as it was free, and as I'm on holiday soon I kind of like the idea of it being on there incase it gets dropped

But when I'm home if there is no benefit it will come off for sure

[Johnie]

I was thinking about getting the 4. I really want to video conference people lol

[Skywatcher]

Oh its lovely and a mile away from my beloved 3G, noticeably faster - have yet to make a face call, the video quality is excellent - could do with IS but that is asking a bit from a phone I guess

plan to do some video on holiday and try and upload direct from the phone so we'll see how that goes

[Johnie]

How is the battery life? I have the original iPhone. LOVE it with the one exception that my battery sucks lol

[Skywatcher]

Better

But if you keep playing with it the battery life will go down

Charge it every 3 days now cf every day before

[Deafjeff]

I would love to video chat with members here but guess communication would be a problem