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Has anyone tried iWood for iPhone yet?
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I like the Padouk best. 
Iwood Is Horrible
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Miniot sent me a badly made excuse for a case, the product was damaged out of the box, i ordered a logo- they got the placement and size of it wrong, the power button did not line up right and ended up dinging my phone, furthermore there are metal rods inthe back which they shoddily cover and of you don't look to make sure they will scratch the back of your phone.
Miniot is a horrible company which refused to take responsibility for the damage there crappy case did to my phone, and refused to try and send me a working one....my suspicion is that all of them are slightly messed- they even admitted to me that the tolerances are still changing.....
GREAT PRODUCT IN THEORY, BUT FAR LESS THAN PERFECT.
IF YOU LIKE GREEN THINGS, DONATE THE $175 TO A CAUSE THAT PROTECTS TREES, AND DOESNT DESTROY THEM TO MAKE A PRODUCT THAT IS A SLIGHT STEP ABOVE FIREWOOD.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Miniot sent me a badly made excuse for a case, the product was damaged out of the box, i ordered a logo- they got the placement and size of it wrong, the power button did not line up right and ended up dinging my phone, furthermore there are metal rods inthe back which they shoddily cover and of you don't look to make sure they will scratch the back of your phone.
Miniot is a horrible company which refused to take responsibility for the damage there crappy case did to my phone, and refused to try and send me a working one....my suspicion is that all of them are slightly messed- they even admitted to me that the tolerances are still changing.....
GREAT PRODUCT IN THEORY, BUT FAR LESS THAN PERFECT.
IF YOU LIKE GREEN THINGS, DONATE THE $175 TO A CAUSE THAT PROTECTS TREES, AND DOESNT DESTROY THEM TO MAKE A PRODUCT THAT IS A SLIGHT STEP ABOVE FIREWOOD.
iwood is horrible
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Miniot sent me a badly made excuse for a case, the product was damaged out of the box, i ordered a logo- they got the placement and size of it wrong, the power button did not line up right and ended up dinging my phone, furthermore there are metal rods inthe back which they shoddily cover and of you don't look to make sure they will scratch the back of your phone.
Miniot is a horrible company which refused to take responsibility for the damage there crappy case did to my phone, and refused to try and send me a working one....my suspicion is that all of them are slightly messed- they even admitted to me that the tolerances are still changing.....
GREAT PRODUCT IN THEORY, BUT FAR LESS THAN PERFECT.
IF YOU LIKE GREEN THINGS, DONATE THE $175 TO A CAUSE THAT PROTECTS TREES, AND DOESNT DESTROY THEM TO MAKE A PRODUCT THAT IS A SLIGHT STEP ABOVE FIREWOOD.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Miniot sent me a badly made excuse for a case, the product was damaged out of the box, i ordered a logo- they got the placement and size of it wrong, the power button did not line up right and ended up dinging my phone, furthermore there are metal rods inthe back which they shoddily cover and of you don't look to make sure they will scratch the back of your phone.
Miniot is a horrible company which refused to take responsibility for the damage there crappy case did to my phone, and refused to try and send me a working one....my suspicion is that all of them are slightly messed- they even admitted to me that the tolerances are still changing.....
GREAT PRODUCT IN THEORY, BUT FAR LESS THAN PERFECT.
IF YOU LIKE GREEN THINGS, DONATE THE $175 TO A CAUSE THAT PROTECTS TREES, AND DOESNT DESTROY THEM TO MAKE A PRODUCT THAT IS A SLIGHT STEP ABOVE FIREWOOD.
iwood is horrible
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Miniot sent me a badly made excuse for a case, the product was damaged out of the box, i ordered a logo- they got the placement and size of it wrong, the power button did not line up right and ended up dinging my phone, furthermore there are metal rods inthe back which they shoddily cover and of you don't look to make sure they will scratch the back of your phone.
Miniot is a horrible company which refused to take responsibility for the damage there crappy case did to my phone, and refused to try and send me a working one....my suspicion is that all of them are slightly messed- they even admitted to me that the tolerances are still changing.....
GREAT PRODUCT IN THEORY, BUT FAR LESS THAN PERFECT.
IF YOU LIKE GREEN THINGS, DONATE THE $175 TO A CAUSE THAT PROTECTS TREES, AND DOESNT DESTROY THEM TO MAKE A PRODUCT THAT IS A SLIGHT STEP ABOVE FIREWOOD.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT.
Miniot sent me a badly made excuse for a case, the product was damaged out of the box, i ordered a logo- they got the placement and size of it wrong, the power button did not line up right and ended up dinging my phone, furthermore there are metal rods inthe back which they shoddily cover and of you don't look to make sure they will scratch the back of your phone.
Miniot is a horrible company which refused to take responsibility for the damage there crappy case did to my phone, and refused to try and send me a working one....my suspicion is that all of them are slightly messed- they even admitted to me that the tolerances are still changing.....
GREAT PRODUCT IN THEORY, BUT FAR LESS THAN PERFECT.
IF YOU LIKE GREEN THINGS, DONATE THE $175 TO A CAUSE THAT PROTECTS TREES, AND DOESNT DESTROY THEM TO MAKE A PRODUCT THAT IS A SLIGHT STEP ABOVE FIREWOOD.
I take it you've emailed them? I have. They're apparently sending out a new design to some of us that ordered first, due to some problems (not specified to me).
The 'metal rods' are the magnets, I suspect.
There are magnets that help hold the 2 pieces together. That's the 'metal' he referred to.
You can barely seem them in this picture, on the larger part of the case:
Yes you're right, I also saw their post, they're all the same; at least he could have writen 4 models different.. well maybe he was just right and is tryng to reveng to miniot or I don't know...
Thanks for the info and the photos.
Javi
P.s: mine was shipped one week just today, how much time took yours to take your home, thanks
Thanks for the info and the photos.
Javi
P.s: mine was shipped one week just today, how much time took yours to take your home, thanks
My case took 2 to 2 1/2 weeks IIRC, once it shipped. It was worth the wait.
Peter had said via email that they were doing a slight redesign (reinforcing some areas on the inside of the case, I believe) so your case may have been held up for the new revision.
then it should arrive this week since man I'm not that far away!
Apple products take 1 night to come to my home (spain) once they are there (holland). (Peter told me fedex and prioritymail were the same faster in europe! ha!) It's been one week and a day now... :-S
Well I promise to post pictures and inform you all if someday it arrives!
Apple products take 1 night to come to my home (spain) once they are there (holland). (Peter told me fedex and prioritymail were the same faster in europe! ha!) It's been one week and a day now... :-S
Well I promise to post pictures and inform you all if someday it arrives!
Hi!
mine has just arrived!! I'll post this evening a little review since I don't have here any camera.
It's beautiful; it has the problems we all know with the buttons, it's really hard to use the sleep button, sounds ones work a little better but not too much. The mute switch is impossible to reach, maybe with very long nails...
The wood is a little different from the one at the miniot web page, darker, but the same kind of wood (they tell it will happen in their homepage; there are no two woods that looks exactly the same).
The most impressive is how well it fits the iphone body; the only thing is not perfect it's the camera hole, not exactly centered on the camera lens, but it doesn't appear in the camera field of view so is not a problem.
The dock is ok, original. You have to plug the cable to the iphone and then set it onto the dock; it's not as easy as apple one; also it is not as wide, don't look too stable, but works. (dont know if someone in the post bought the dock, haven't seen any comment about it). Screen protector looks ok, but I haven't installed it since I already have the power support one.
Referring to the negative comments of "thomasthomas", note that it could be bad luck and that your case arrives like hims, since we don't really know miniot opinion on his case:
- Package was perfect, a small box, by certified mail. Inside this box, perfectly tight a miniot box, really looking like apple's ones, I mean elegant and well done.
- Inside the miniot box, you have a cartoon suite for the wood case in which they advise you not to press the buttons unitl it's over the iphone (the wood would crash, it's just united to the rest of the case by thin wood).
- Inside the iwood case, theres a material for protecting the back of the iphone, I guess from the metal parts of the magnets. Don't know if it will scratch the iphone with time, now it looks fine on one of the magnets, the other one is raised a little over the wood and that material is not completely covering it, so it could scratch the iphone. until now it hasn't scratched it but it's been taken out just a couple of times.
- My logo is perfectly fitted into the case, better than I could ever hoped. It's just perfect; also I must say Peter mailed me to ask me about the logo size and position, and then confirmed me that it would be like I wanted it to.
- Magnets don't look too hard, just make it stay together. I also have the agent18 case and I guess this one works better since it's not as tight to the body of the iphone, you can take it off easily.
I will post pics as soon as I can!
Javi
mine has just arrived!! I'll post this evening a little review since I don't have here any camera.
It's beautiful; it has the problems we all know with the buttons, it's really hard to use the sleep button, sounds ones work a little better but not too much. The mute switch is impossible to reach, maybe with very long nails...
The wood is a little different from the one at the miniot web page, darker, but the same kind of wood (they tell it will happen in their homepage; there are no two woods that looks exactly the same).
The most impressive is how well it fits the iphone body; the only thing is not perfect it's the camera hole, not exactly centered on the camera lens, but it doesn't appear in the camera field of view so is not a problem.
The dock is ok, original. You have to plug the cable to the iphone and then set it onto the dock; it's not as easy as apple one; also it is not as wide, don't look too stable, but works. (dont know if someone in the post bought the dock, haven't seen any comment about it). Screen protector looks ok, but I haven't installed it since I already have the power support one.
Referring to the negative comments of "thomasthomas", note that it could be bad luck and that your case arrives like hims, since we don't really know miniot opinion on his case:
- Package was perfect, a small box, by certified mail. Inside this box, perfectly tight a miniot box, really looking like apple's ones, I mean elegant and well done.
- Inside the miniot box, you have a cartoon suite for the wood case in which they advise you not to press the buttons unitl it's over the iphone (the wood would crash, it's just united to the rest of the case by thin wood).
- Inside the iwood case, theres a material for protecting the back of the iphone, I guess from the metal parts of the magnets. Don't know if it will scratch the iphone with time, now it looks fine on one of the magnets, the other one is raised a little over the wood and that material is not completely covering it, so it could scratch the iphone. until now it hasn't scratched it but it's been taken out just a couple of times.
- My logo is perfectly fitted into the case, better than I could ever hoped. It's just perfect; also I must say Peter mailed me to ask me about the logo size and position, and then confirmed me that it would be like I wanted it to.
- Magnets don't look too hard, just make it stay together. I also have the agent18 case and I guess this one works better since it's not as tight to the body of the iphone, you can take it off easily.
I will post pics as soon as I can!
Javi
Details about the buttons; sleep button doesn't raise over the rest of the case, so it makes it difficult to press it; volume buttons are hard too, but since are a little over the case, you can press them more easily.
Silence switch is absolutely un-useful , I cannot even make it switch using a stylus. How do you use the mute control iwood users? turn at minimum with the volume buttons? any program?
Silence switch is absolutely un-useful , I cannot even make it switch using a stylus. How do you use the mute control iwood users? turn at minimum with the volume buttons? any program?
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Nice pictures! I have been curious as to the dock itself, as I didn't buy one.
Your logo came out nice as well.
I don't have a solution for the 'silent' switch. I never use it, so it doesn't bother me. All other functions work well, though.
Your logo came out nice as well.
I don't have a solution for the 'silent' switch. I never use it, so it doesn't bother me. All other functions work well, though.