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Best Buy Offering Free InvisibleSHIELD Antenna Strips for iPhone 4 Owners
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I've actually had these on my iPhone 4 for about two weeks. If you buy the maximum protection shield (not the full body) it comes with these. It is $25 from zagg but if you just do a simple google search you can usually find at least a 20% off discount code. I bought two maximum protections and one zagg skin at the same time, using a 50% off code I got from signing up my junk email account to their weekly free ipad giveaway they have been running lately.
I didn't have a dropped call issue before installing it, I did have some bars drop but never a dropped call from it or any other reason. With them on I don't even have a signal drop if I try. I'm sure if I gave it a really good death grip I might be able to,but in my natural holding position (I'm left handed and hold it exactly how people say it shouldn't be held) it works great. Now if AT&T didn't try and rape my wallet by sending me a $290 bill instead of the groping bill of $120 it should be.
I like invisibleSHIELDS on my devices, used them on all my MBs, MBPs, and iPhones in the past 2 years or so. They are way better looking than most of the cases available for electronics. Sure, up close they might be a little weird looking but if you install it well it is hardly noticeable and lasts a long time. They also have a lifetime warranty so if yours does discolor or peel up you just take it off and send it in for a new one. The material does have a bit of stretch to it, so be careful when applying it or it can look crappy. Worst case scenario you just take it off and request a new one. On my current one I somehow got a tiny hair in the screen area, but it hasn't bothered me enough to take it off yet.
Hope this helps anyone considering getting these for free or paying for them. I think they are overpriced at regular retail, and not a bad deal if you get them with a discount code. If people really want pics I can track down my dslr.
I didn't have a dropped call issue before installing it, I did have some bars drop but never a dropped call from it or any other reason. With them on I don't even have a signal drop if I try. I'm sure if I gave it a really good death grip I might be able to,but in my natural holding position (I'm left handed and hold it exactly how people say it shouldn't be held) it works great. Now if AT&T didn't try and rape my wallet by sending me a $290 bill instead of the groping bill of $120 it should be.
I like invisibleSHIELDS on my devices, used them on all my MBs, MBPs, and iPhones in the past 2 years or so. They are way better looking than most of the cases available for electronics. Sure, up close they might be a little weird looking but if you install it well it is hardly noticeable and lasts a long time. They also have a lifetime warranty so if yours does discolor or peel up you just take it off and send it in for a new one. The material does have a bit of stretch to it, so be careful when applying it or it can look crappy. Worst case scenario you just take it off and request a new one. On my current one I somehow got a tiny hair in the screen area, but it hasn't bothered me enough to take it off yet.
Hope this helps anyone considering getting these for free or paying for them. I think they are overpriced at regular retail, and not a bad deal if you get them with a discount code. If people really want pics I can track down my dslr.
Hey, it's free.
If this catches on, we'll be seeing a new line of products(from Apple) that will have a in-built design flaw so that the cost of rectifying it will be passed down to retailers who want to sell the product(that has to be able to sell by itself) or the users themselves.
I'm sure they didn't purposefully plan it in the first place, but this one helluva cost saving strategy is working out pretty well by now.
Who cares about the backlash and negative feedback. People just want their shinnies.
If this catches on, we'll be seeing a new line of products(from Apple) that will have a in-built design flaw so that the cost of rectifying it will be passed down to retailers who want to sell the product(that has to be able to sell by itself) or the users themselves.
I'm sure they didn't purposefully plan it in the first place, but this one helluva cost saving strategy is working out pretty well by now.
Who cares about the backlash and negative feedback. People just want their shinnies.
Only if you bought your iPhone4 at BB - need to show your receipt
I 've been at BB yesterday to let them place the shield - nope. Only for those who bought their iPhone4 at BB, thus not for anybody as suggested in the MacRumors article. Would have been too good to be true...sorry guys
I 've been at BB yesterday to let them place the shield - nope. Only for those who bought their iPhone4 at BB, thus not for anybody as suggested in the MacRumors article. Would have been too good to be true...sorry guys
I didn't buy my iPhone4 at Best Buy and still got the 4FIX for free and no they didn't "up-sell" me anything. I got mine on Thursday and so far they've stayed on fine although no change to the antennae issue. Glad it was free!
Wow... pretty cool to see another local on here -- I was just at 310 (that's the Aurora store, if you're talking about Aurora/Naperville) this very day. That store has always had a reputation for being sketchy and not very helpful.
I didn't know about this program until just now, so I didn't check it out, but I will try to on Monday or Tuesday.
What's interesting here is that YOU don't cite if you have the phone and/or have personally experienced the issue.
I've had the 4 for two weeks, and I certainly have more dropped calls than I had on my BB Tour on VZW... but two things to note: in the Aurora/Naperville, IL area, I have several friends who have more signal issues with ATT than I did with VZW -- on various phones... the other is that I can't replicated a signal issue, other than at specific locations... which also leads me to believe those issues are ATT/concrete buildings -- not the 4.
The other thing I've thought of -- why do some people seem to be able to duplicate but others can't?
my local BB installed the kit on mine and never asked if I purchased the phone there. no receipt no nothing. I bought my phone from att not BB