Free bumpers! Get your free bumpers boys and girls! Apple’s giving out free squeaky bumpers for all you loyal fanbois and fangalz that bought the iPhone 4 before 30^th of September. Yeah, that’s right, September 30 isn’t here yet, so if you rush over to Apple Store and get one, you’ll get a free bumper for your iPhone 4! Hurray!

As there’s not many bumpers available, and Apple can’t simply take a car bumper and give it to you all 3 million owners out there, Apple’s getting you choose among few options, and then send it your way for free. And to those that already bought a bumper from Apple, you’ll get a refund, and you can also return your phone for a full refund within 30 days as long as it’s unharmed.

This solution comes at the end of 22 days of Apple engineers “working their butts off,” according to Steve, with “physics” ultimately being pinned as the main culprit. Apple claims you can replicate the left-handed “death grip” bar-dropping problem on the BlackBerry Bold 9700, HTC Droid Eris, and Samsung Omnia II, and that “phones aren’t perfect.” Steve also claims that only 0.55% of people who bought the iPhone 4 have called into AppleCare to complain about the antenna, and the phone has a 1.7% return rate at AT&T, compared to 6% with the 3GS, though he would cop to a slight increase in dropped calls over the iPhone 3GS.

Steve Jobs isn’t that happy with admitting the antenna problem, and those the pet theory that he’s spoken of. When referring to the increase dropped calls compared to the 3GS, he said that plenty of 3GS users were using the case they had from the 3G, and thus did not face any call dropping issues. And so the free bumper elucidation, which will probably gratify some, enrage others, and never even blip onto the radar of many of the massive horde of consumers that’s devoured this product in unprecedented numbers.

Engadget’s Richard Lai from UK has put the ‘refund’ promise into exercise, and got his iPhone Bumper receipt exchanged for his beloved green. So we can assume that the refund effort has already been announced throughout the Apple Store network.

[via Engadget]