iPhone 4 bumpers. Sure, they look nice, but they don’t really protect your iPhone from damage and after the whole Antennagate, they’re cynically looked upon as bandaids for the antenna attenuation problem. Worse, at $29, they’re overpriced.
Well, say goodbye to bumpers comer the iPhone 5.
9to5Mac says that come the next iPhone announcement, Apple will discontinue the bumper, even if the next iPhone isn’t radically changed in design from its predecessor.
In other words, even if the iPhone 4S is released with the same form factor, Apple’s still killing bumpers off. They may be replaced by something similar, but say goodbye to the current models, either way.
I’m not really surprised. The bumpers have always seemed less like a case than an iPhone fashion accessory to me, a way to quickly tell two iPhones apart when they’re resting on the table. And after being linked with the Antennagate controversy, the Bumper line is synonymous with an iPhone’s poor reception. Bumpers are poisoned from a marketing perspective. No wonder Apple’s killing them off.
