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Glide: The Precision Aluminum iPhone Case

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bobpensik

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Has anyone checked out the following project on Kickstarter?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thisispaul/glide-the-precision-aluminum-iphone-case

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Looks pretty nice
 
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Wait. Are these on the market or do you have to pledge first before the product even becomes a reality??

These look siiick
 
i'd buy one. Is there anything similar out there? (raises up from the table but really thin?)
 
dejo said:
The product doesn't even exist yet. How is one supposed to check it out?
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My point exactly. How can someone say with such authority that the design will affect reception if no one has been able to use it yet

Considering there is only 9 days to go and he hasn't even reached $1000 of $20,000 needed in pledges, I don't think we will be able to find out anyway
 
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bobpensik said:
My point exactly. How can someone said with such authority that the design will affect reception if no one has been able to use it yet

Considering there is only 9 days to go and he hasn't even reached $1000 of $20,000 needed in pledges, I don't think we will be able to find out anyway
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Because we have proven here you cannot put alum around the whole phone and not have it cause problems..search faraday effect. But hey go ahead and buy it...it took me 5 diff alum cases to believe it before I went to a hybrid case...


Do some reading here on the element threads to start....
 
They have an actual website now where you can place an order:

http://www.glidecase.com/

I found this thread while browsing around to see if anyone has bought one and has experience with it.

I was scared off by the comments above that the aluminum could ruin reception, however, aren't there several aluminum bumper cases out there?? And from what I've seen, the rest are much pricier. I can't imagine people would be buying these other ones if reception is seriously affected... any thoughts?
 
Definitely interested to see some reviews on this one. Easily the cleanest aluminum bumper design so far. Hopefully this doesn't have the reception issues that some of the other all-aluminum cases do.
 
From their website:
*Q: Is reception affected by Glide?
A: Glide is a true bumper case - it doesn't touch the antenna on the sides of the phone. Because of this design, Glide can actually improve reception over a gripped iPhone without protection. While not holding the iPhone, reception may be slightly decreased, as is typical with any iPhone case. However, our field testing with the AT&T iPhone 4 has shown fewer dropped calls while holding the iPhone. Verizon iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S results are still being collected.
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this looks really clean, but i still want to see some reviews about reception just to be sure.
 
hizzaah said:
From their website:
*Q: Is reception affected by Glide?
A: Glide is a true bumper case - it doesn't touch the antenna on the sides of the phone.
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They all say the same thing. But we're still seeing reception drops.

The question is by how much.
 
I ordered one about a week ago, Ill be sure to go into the field test mode and see if how it affects reception
 
Wow this case is really nice, slim and barely there! I'm ordering one! Thanks for sharing!
 
Just got my glide case today. Black sides with red front and back. Also came with extra black front and back pieces in black. I managed to get it on with a sgp back leather, front power support hd anti glare and lucky labs spectra wrap on the sides. And all I'm getting is two bubbles in the adjacent corners which isn't really bothering me. I'll try to get some pictures but I don't have another camera. I think my cell reception is the same, I live in a bad area so it's hard to tell. wi-fi is still at max bars though.
 
Stormy05 said:
Just got my glide case today. Black sides with red front and back. Also came with extra black front and back pieces in black. I managed to get it on with a sgp back leather, front power support hd anti glare and lucky labs spectra wrap on the sides. And all I'm getting is two bubbles in the adjacent corners which isn't really bothering me. I'll try to get some pictures but I don't have another camera. I think my cell reception is the same, I live in a bad area so it's hard to tell. wi-fi is still at max bars though.
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Dial *3001#12345#* and it will show you the dB readings for your cellular connection. If you could post those for with and without the case, that would be helpful
 
Ok tried this three times. first time. case off walked around the house and got a solid -86. With case on it's jumping around more mostly stays around -93 to -95 some times goes to -100 . Second time with case on i got -94 took the case off and it didn't change, after about 3 minutes it changed to -85 then -88 with case off. Put the case back on and have -95. I hope this can help I don't know what the numbers mean but it seems that with case on most of the time I get a -5 to -10 differance. it jumps around allot right now with case on it's jumping from -85 to -94.
 
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