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Apple Has To Pay iPhone 4 Owners $15 Following The Antennagate Fiasco

By Array | Business Insider – Sat, Feb 18, 2012 8:46 AM EST

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Antennagate is finally, officially, sort of over now.

iPhone 4 owners will be rewarded $15 cash or a suitable case following a ruling in a class-action lawsuit against Apple, CNET reports.

The lawsuit said Apple hid the iPhone 4's antenna problems from customers in marketing materials and other promotional items.

If you own an iPhone 4 you may get an email soon alerting you of the award. You can also check out iphone4settlement.com in a few weeks to claim it. (The site isn't live yet.)

Apple already offered free cases to iPhone 4 owners a few weeks after the device launched, following the huge public backlash over the antenna failures. Now Apple will be forced to give out cases again or fork over a cool $15.

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18 comments

  • DJ FOO
    DJ FOO  •  3 months ago
    $15 bucks is what Apple thinks of you fools. Everyone should get the new iphone 5.
  • GreyWolf
    GreyWolf  •  3 months ago
    Over forty years later & the media still puts the word "gate" after every scandal regardless of how big or samll. Simply amazing.
  • John
    John  •  Tacoma, Washington  •  3 months ago
    Wow 15 bucks Lets go to Disneyland
  • Buslady
    Buslady  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
    i got mine last year..not when it first came out. worked flawlessly since i got it. never buy something in it's first 6 mos....
  • P
    P  •  3 months ago
    How much do the lawyers get?
  • June
    June  •  3 months ago
    Why say "Antennagate"?? It was a company error, not a huge criminal scandal. If the media has to overuse "gate," you could at least stick to using it for scandals..
    • TheEndOfObamagedden
      TheEndOfObamagedden 3 months ago
      It was a company error with the initial iPhone. It's a scandal when the same problem exists several iterations later.
    • June
      June 3 months ago
      That's not scandalous. It's just lazy.
  • G
    G  •  3 months ago
    The $15 will probably be in the form of an iTunes gift card.
  • BestTimesNow
    BestTimesNow  •  3 months ago
    Save me from the people who are trying to save me!
  • gdfhdfhf
    gdfhdfhf  •  3 months ago
    I have an Iphone 4 - 8 GB but I just got it like 4 months ago. Does this apply to me?
  • Fireagle
    Fireagle  •  3 months ago
    These people, the ones complaining, bought an iphone. I didn't and was smart and bought... a non-contract phone that has lasted me 2-3 years now. How's that going with your iCantAffordThis?
  • Native Born American
    Native Born American  •  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
    I will give the headline an F. Everything is not a "...gate". Watergate was the name of an office building, not an inane cutesy descriptor. Learn to write or leave the business.
  • jimr
    jimr  •  Traverse City, Michigan  •  3 months ago
    Is the antenna problem fixed?
    • Richard
      Richard 3 months ago
      Get a different case if you're having a problem. This is mostly just media/lawyer hype
  • PolkNole
    PolkNole  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 months ago
    Too many lawyers...
  • Fred H.
    Fred H.  •  3 months ago
    iSHeep never learn.
  • Greg
    Greg  •  Boston, Massachusetts  •  3 months ago
    15 dollars is a joke. A known manufacturing defect passed along anyway to the consumer. Screw'um. This is a good lesson to not wait in line for three days for a defective phone.
  • Blu Balz
    Blu Balz  •  Orlando, Florida  •  3 months ago
    And what do the lawyers get?
    • Capt AHAB
      Capt AHAB 3 months ago
      Sheeit son, willing to bet it was in the millions...from all that hard back breaking work they did...lol
    • TheEndOfObamagedden
      TheEndOfObamagedden 3 months ago
      They got the fence, the plantiffs got the gate.
  • Barry runs for all of us
    Barry runs for all of us  •  Flint, Michigan  •  3 months ago
    No problem for my unlimited plan, because AT&T's service is so terrible outside the major metropolitan areas you can't get a signal.
  • jkeyner
    jkeyner  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
    What a waste of time and money, of course the Chinese Apple company will not mind, just a drop in the bucket.
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