Despite Apple naming its line of six coloured iPhone 4 protective cases “bumper cases” this isn’t the first time this name has been used for a very similar product. Electrical devices like the iPhone are as you would expect quite fragile devices and are usually quite expensive too. This means that the owners of these sort of devices would most likely want to protect them as best as possible.
Bumper cases have been around for a little while and are currently available for Palm devices. Though not as costly today as an iPhone some of the Palm models used to be considered as the cutting edge in mobile devices. Even back when the Palm and other similar devices were king bumper cases were to be found quite often.
Here for example is a product called “Bumper” designed to shield and protect a Palm device from drops, spills and general day to day use.
Now let’s be honest here, compared to the announced iPhone bumper cases this Palm case looks terrible. And of course unline the soon to be available iPhone protection cases these older cases were only available in a single colour – black.
