OK, I have gone thru over 12 different Lifeproof Fre iPhone 5 cases from the first generation all the way thru today including 3 generation 4 cases. The Fre case is fundamentally flawed and they are going to need to start from scratch if they want to make this case work.
The latest gen 4 case is no better than the first 3 versions even with all its glued on rubber bumpers, rock hard glued on plastic spacers and removed rubber spacers/bumpers around the ear piece ETC.
No matter what anyone says the 4th gen case is absolutely no better than the previous versions.
It still suffers from the vibration during calls around the ear piece, the speaker phone cutting out and just plain terrible sound all around. Oil slicks on the screen ETC. Remove you phone from the Fre case and you will think you have a brand new phone you have never used before.
I put my phone back into the 3rd gen case for the time being until the TakTik, Seidio ODEX, Otterbox Armor or something else comes along. Im almost ready to go purchase another defender (which I hate), at least I could make calls and people could understand what Im talking about while using that rubber brick.
The Fre case really gimps the iPhone 5 down and I hope that someday Lifeproof gets it right and redesigns the Fre case into a workable case and just not Jerry Rig the crap out of it.
Just what I think
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