Electronic-Geek.com » Free http://electronic-geek.com Your Electronic Source Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Apple begins iPhone 4 Case Program: apply for your free case or Bumper now http://electronic-geek.com/apple-begins-iphone-4-case-program-apply-for-your-free-case-or-bumper-now/ http://electronic-geek.com/apple-begins-iphone-4-case-program-apply-for-your-free-case-or-bumper-now/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:53:00 +0000 Darren Murph http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/apple-begins-iphone-4-case-program-apply-for-your-free-case-or/ Well, there's nothing like masking bad news with good news, right Apple? Just moments after quietly announcing that the white iPhone 4 is now scheduled to ship sometime between tomorrow and your New Year's Eve party, the company has also fired up its iPhone 4 Case Program. Just as Jobs promised last week at an emergency press event, this program will ensure that anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 prior to September 30th will be able to receive an iPhone 4 Bumper or select third-party case from the company at no charge. 'Course, you need to be located in a country or territory that Apple actually ships to, but if that's all squared away, feel free to hit up the App Store to download the iPhone 4 Case Program app. Once there, you'll need to sign into your iTunes Store account, select your Bumper or case and wait oh-so-patiently (read: "3 to 5 weeks"). Better hurry -- wouldn't want the servers to get overloaded, now would we?

Oh, and if you happened to have already purchased a Bumper, the company should be hitting your credit card with a full refund (including any applicable taxes and shipping) momentarily. As for the case / Bumper choices? Every single option is available in any color you like... so long as it's black, of course. There's a black Apple Bumper option, an Incase Snap Case, Belkin Shield Micra, Griffin Motif, Griffin Reveal, Speck Fitted and Speck PixelSkin HD, but again, don't go in hoping to select your favorite hue. Yeah, you're free to bicker about free things -- we won't judge.

Update: If you're one of those wise guys who purchased an iPhone 4 right away just to sell it, you can forget about getting a free case for the handset you no longer own. Apple has arranged this so that only one case can be ordered per iPhone 4, so even if you ordered two under your account name, you'll need two phones to place both of those orders. Check out the error message below if you still don't believe us.

Apple begins iPhone 4 Case Program: apply for your free case or Bumper now originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  sourceApple  | Email this | Comments]]> Well, there's nothing like masking bad news with good news, right Apple? Just moments after quietly announcing that the white iPhone 4 is now scheduled to ship sometime between tomorrow and your New Year's Eve party, the company has also fired up its iPhone 4 Case Program. Just as Jobs promised last week at an emergency press event, this program will ensure that anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 prior to September 30th will be able to receive an iPhone 4 Bumper or select third-party case from the company at no charge. 'Course, you need to be located in a country or territory that Apple actually ships to, but if that's all squared away, feel free to hit up the App Store to download the iPhone 4 Case Program app. Once there, you'll need to sign into your iTunes Store account, select your Bumper or case and wait oh-so-patiently (read: "3 to 5 weeks"). Better hurry -- wouldn't want the servers to get overloaded, now would we?

Oh, and if you happened to have already purchased a Bumper, the company should be hitting your credit card with a full refund (including any applicable taxes and shipping) momentarily. As for the case / Bumper choices? Every single option is available in any color you like... so long as it's black, of course. There's a black Apple Bumper option, an Incase Snap Case, Belkin Shield Micra, Griffin Motif, Griffin Reveal, Speck Fitted and Speck PixelSkin HD, but again, don't go in hoping to select your favorite hue. Yeah, you're free to bicker about free things -- we won't judge.

Update: If you're one of those wise guys who purchased an iPhone 4 right away just to sell it, you can forget about getting a free case for the handset you no longer own. Apple has arranged this so that only one case can be ordered per iPhone 4, so even if you ordered two under your account name, you'll need two phones to place both of those orders. Check out the error message below if you still don't believe us.

Gallery: Apple iPhone 4 Case Program app

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Permalink   |  sourceApple  | Email this | Comments]]> http://electronic-geek.com/apple-begins-iphone-4-case-program-apply-for-your-free-case-or-bumper-now/feed/ 0 Apple starts refunding Bumper purchases automagically http://electronic-geek.com/apple-starts-refunding-bumper-purchases-automagically/ http://electronic-geek.com/apple-starts-refunding-bumper-purchases-automagically/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:32:00 +0000 Vlad Savov http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/23/apple-starts-refunding-bumper-purchases-automatically/ Automatic refunds, or so the email says. We've been on the receiving end of a deluge of tips this morning pointing out that Apple has begun funneling cash back into its users' pockets -- a most unusual event, to be sure -- to live up to its retroactive promise of free Bumpers for all (who buy their iPhone 4 before September 30). If the particular wording is to be trusted, that should mean that even those who haven't yet bothered to put in a claim, but did purchase a Bumper, will find themselves enriched in due course. Apple estimates this bandaid solution to its antenna problems will cost $175 million in real cash money, but we suspect the biggest price to pay will be in the form of pride and reputation.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments]]> http://electronic-geek.com/apple-starts-refunding-bumper-purchases-automagically/feed/ 0 Microsoft to employees: ‘everybody gets a Windows Phone 7!’ http://electronic-geek.com/microsoft-to-employees-everybody-gets-a-windows-phone-7/ http://electronic-geek.com/microsoft-to-employees-everybody-gets-a-windows-phone-7/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:54:00 +0000 Chris Ziegler http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/21/microsoft-to-employees-everybody-gets-a-windows-phone-7/ Microsoft guru extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley has retweeted a company employee boasting of a commitment to hand out Windows Phone 7 devices to each and every one of Redmond's 90,000-plus employees around the world. That's certainly one way to spread the word -- and realistically, the cost to Microsoft is a drop in the bucket if they can really take advantage of the word-of-mouth advertising effect here. Of course, step one in that process is going to be making sure the product is absolutely rock solid by the time those gratis units start getting handed out. Microsoft staffers do know how to multitask when they're working, right?

Microsoft to employees: 'everybody gets a Windows Phone 7!' originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  source@maryjofoley (Via Twitter)  | Email this | Comments]]> http://electronic-geek.com/microsoft-to-employees-everybody-gets-a-windows-phone-7/feed/ 0 Toshiba reneges on promise of free laptops and TVs if Spain win World Cup http://electronic-geek.com/toshiba-reneges-on-promise-of-free-laptops-and-tvs-if-spain-win-world-cup/ http://electronic-geek.com/toshiba-reneges-on-promise-of-free-laptops-and-tvs-if-spain-win-world-cup/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:22:00 +0000 Vlad Savov http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/toshiba-reneges-on-promise-of-free-laptops-and-tvs-if-spain-win/ Buy a Core i5 laptop or a Toshiba TV, and if your country wins the World Cup Final, we'll refund your money. Simple and to the point, don't you think? Toshiba ran this advertising campaign in Germany, England, Portugal, Italy and Spain in the run-up to the global football tournament, but now that one of those nations has actually gone and scooped the silverware, refunds seem remarkably hard to come by. As it turns out, the small print on that ad included instructions to see Toshiba's site for further details, which elucidated a requirement that all claimants must register their product by the 17th of June. Naturally, that's now led to a whole heap of peeved Spaniards feeling cheated, and big time consumer association Facua arguing that such a major condition to recovering your cash shouldn't have been hidden away online. In the absence of it being clearly marked on the promotional materials, it argues, Toshiba should honor everyone's receipts irrespective of registration. We're inclined to agree -- maybe the Japanese company can recover any losses from the wages of its cheeky advertising staff.

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