iPhone 4 Vapor Case

I got mine this past Wednesday night. I sent an email to Elements return address. I have yet to hear from them. I've seen wifi signal drop and places I get signal I notice reception loss with the vapor case on. It is NOT what I want from a $80 case. Any sort of prompt response would be half way decent customer service.

Hello,

I got my vapor 4 case today, the AR15-V, and from my end after day one of using it I have to say I am very satisfied. The signal drops intermittently, only by 1 bar indoors which is fine by me. Solid 3G with 2-3 bars. I usually get 3 bars.

Now the most important bit for me:

Without the case, when I hold the phone in a "wrong way" I loose signal. I have to hold it in Steve's way in order to not to loose signal :]

With the case on I can finally hold the phone in whatever way I want without loosing signal! and that is what I wanted really.

I'll let you know if anything comes up.

Big issues with this case!

http://www.neowin.net/news/vapor-iphone-4-case-reduces-antenna-effectiveness-by- 99

It has no hole for the second mic?

I have no issue. Call quality remained the same. Perhaps these testing labs have... signal issue lol

Seriously, I can assure you that I don't have any problem using it, but I'll wait and see...

I was having major issues with my phone when the case was on. People started telling me I was cutting in and out, and I was dropping calls more frequently. I also used to always have 3 or 4 bars in my basement, after putting on the case I was having no signal. At first I thought my phone was having issues and needed a trip to the doctors, then after doing some research on the net I found out the issues with the case. I took the case off, and after about 20 minutes, the phone was back to acting normal and the case was eBay bound.

Almost forgot, I also noticed battery performance, even in great signal strength areas, was way down.

Lite2rw,

I am not at all surprised with your iPhone and case problems.

Take a metal box, encompass your phones antenna block off the noise cancellation microphone and expect it to work is just crazy.

Lite2rw, I am not call you crazy, but the concept of this metal case. I looked at that case myself and tried to convince myself that the manufacturer had some secret deign etc. The **** thing looked so nice the personal con-job on myself almost worked. Thankfully the price and my reservation about putting my phone in an aluminum can kept me from taking the plunge.

I know I am going to catch flak from those that swear it works fine for them and all I have to say about that is I wish I had an at&t tower down the block from my home also.

I don't know how many of you got your phones from Best Buy, but when the whole antenna issue came about, they had free InvisibleSHIELD cases that specifically went around the edges of the phone and they were suppose to work really well. Anyone tried those with the Vapor Case??

I just received my cases...2 of them. Both Extreme metals...trust me...both impact reception. You can try it yourself. In my home, I held the phone up with no bumper...3 bars. I just slip the left side of the Vapor bumper on my iPhone4 and within a few seconds you can watch your reception drop by 2 bars. Remove the Vapor...within a few seconds back to 3 bars. I am so disappointed after waiting this long. I might try getting the side strips for the Invisible Shield. I have to say...the bumper looks incredible...but, I put it on today and lots calls all day long. Also, people told me I was breaking up...much more than usual. I wonder if they could open up a portion by the antenna...would that help? Has anyone tried the invisible shield around the edges???

Nice looking, but it doesn't look like it would protect the phone too much if it were dropped...

Step your game up!! Vapor cases are the truth!!