440
Backers
$105,412
pledged of $100,000 goal
Funding Suspended Funding for this project was suspended on September 11, 2012.
Funding period
Jul 31, 2012 -
Sep 14, 2012
(45 days)
- First created · 0 backed
- Steven Sesar 828 friends
- Website: facebook.com
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19 backers Limited (2981 of 3000 left)
Don’t have enough $$ for your own Freedom Sleeve? Pledge $5 and get the FreedomPop Badge for your website showing your support for eliminating the digital divide and FreedomPop's internet revolution. "The Internet is a right, not a privilege. Free Access for ALL". We'll also keep you up-to-date with our progress for the Freedom Sleeve 4G for iPod Touch with exclusive updates.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $49 or more
2 backers Limited (1998 of 2000 left)
You'll get a LIMITED EDITION FreedomPop t-shirt showing the world your commitment to eliminating the digital divide and FreedomPop's internet revolution. "The Internet is a right, not a privilege. Free Access for ALL".
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $99 or more
370 backers Limited (1630 of 2000 left)
BE THE FIRST! Help us turn our prototype into a reality! Get 1 Freedom Sleeve 4G for iPod Touch and 1 Basic FreedomPop 4G Service with up to 1GB of FREE data every month for life. Check coverage area before pledge at www.freedompop.com/coverage Free shipping anywhere in USA.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $149 or more
8 backers Limited (1992 of 2000 left)
Help us turn our prototype into a reality! Get 1 Freedom Sleeve 4G for iPod Touch and 1 Basic FreedomPop 4G Service with up to 1GB of FREE data every month for life. You'll also get a LIMITED EDITION FreedomPop t-shirt showing the world your commitment to eliminating the digital divide and FreedomPop's internet revolution. "The Internet is a right, not a privilege. Free Access for ALL". Check coverage area before pledge at www.freedompop.com/coverage Free shipping anywhere in USA.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $500 or more
3 backers Limited (97 of 100 left)
Get 1 Freedom Sleeve 4G for iPod Touch and 1 Basic FreedomPop 4G Service with up to 1GB of FREE data every month for life. You'll also get a LIMITED EDITION FreedomPop t-shirt showing the world your commitment to eliminating the digital divide and FreedomPop's internet revolution. "The Internet is a right, not a privilege. Free Access for ALL. AND THATS NOT ALL....you'll also get an EXCLUSIVE invitation to FreedomPop launch party to meet team behind the iPod Sleeve. Team and event will be based in Los Angeles, travel expenses to event are not included. Check coverage area before pledge at www.freedompop.com/coverage Free shipping anywhere in USA.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012
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Show older commentsCreator Jeffrey Lewis on October 31, 2012
I want to cancel my pledge, how do I do that?
Creator anton on October 8, 2012
So uhh, when am I going to get the freedom sleeve that I paid $99 for as a backer?
Creator pharmac on September 18, 2012
Crazy? Pray tell when is receiving two stories that are mutually exclusive crazy? Flame? What part of my message is a flame. It is a "request" for a straight answer. Do you believe that "we cancelled" and "kickstarter suspended our account" as the same thing? Exactly how? Please explain.
Creator Robert Rosenberg on September 17, 2012
Flame on crazies....
Creator pharmac on September 14, 2012
The fact is, irrespective of access to e-mail lists, there are 2 stories being put out by you. The one your customer support people at the website is giving out and the one the messages being posted here. Two stories about the same incident with different answers but both purporting to be the truth.
This is an exact quote from the e-mail sent by YOUR customer support: "We've cancelled our Kickstarter project after selling thousands of iPod Touch / iPhone Sleeves at FreedomPop.com. We are self funding our project and guaranteeing product shipment to begin in 6-8 weeks."
This is what you say here: "...we have been unable to receive an explanation from Kickstarter as to why our project has been suspended."
Now who is lying? "We cancelled" or "kickstarter suspended" These are mutually exclusive explanations. You need to get your lies...I mean story straight, because OBVIOUSLY someone here is lying. Care to explain that?
Creator FreedomPop on September 13, 2012
Frank,
We apologize for the lack of communication. We have no access to the email addresses of our backers on Kickstarter, nor do we have the ability to send out a mass message to all of our backers on Kickstarter. As for an explanation as to what happened, we have been unable to receive an explanation from Kickstarter as to why our project has been suspended.
Creator Frank Kelly on September 12, 2012
Your comment does not make sense. you should have sent all backers an email informing us of what happened. The fact that Kickstarter blocked you from communicating on the Kickstarter project page does not prevent you from contacting us by our email address explaining what happened. Based on what I have read it appears that you were taking orders from through your website in addition to taking our funding through Kickstarter. According to the rules on Kickstarter this is not allowed.
You owe your 440 backers an explanation as to what Realy happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Creator FreedomPop on September 12, 2012
First of all, we want to thank you - our most valued early supporters, for helping FreedomPop with your Kickstarter funding.
We apologize for being unable to communicate with you in last few hours since Kickstarter suspended our project. Unfortunately, we've been blocked, without notice or comment by Kickstarter from all communication with our supporters. Since our project was suspended and our team was provided no guidance from Kickstarter as to timing for re-enabling our project, we made the decision to cancel our project on Kickstarter and migrate our supporters to FreedomPop site for pre-order. We've already taken thousands of pre-orders via our website, ensuring launch of both our innovative devices and FREE wireless internet service over the next 6-8 weeks.
If you have already funded our Kickstarter project and want to guarantee your priority position for shipment, please pre-order your preferred Sleeve at FreedomPop.com and use your same First Name and Last Name as your Kickstarter account. All funding for our Kickstarter project has been cancelled and you will only be charged by pre-ordering at FreedomPop
iPod Touch Sleeve - http://www.freedompop.com/freedom-sleeve-ipod-touch
iPhone Sleeve - http://www.freedompop.com/preorder.htm
We apologize for this inconvenience, however, Kickstarter left us no choice and we wanted to move as quickly as possible. If you have any questions, please contact support@freedompop.com. Once again, thank you for your support.
-The FreedomPop Team
Creator Jeroen Dekkers on September 12, 2012
I think one of the previous posters stated it correctly. Kickstarter is supposed to be an exclusive platform. But if they took hundreds of preorders through their website it kinda defeats the KS purpose. I had preordered this as an initial reaction to the suspension on here but I'm pulling it now. I rather wait and see what happens. If they can offer the same 'exclusive' prices on their preorder pages just as on KS I feel kind of cheated.
Best of luck to your company.
Creator pharmac on September 12, 2012
I agree with Karen, we were told here it would start shipping in Sept...now it is 6-8 weeks....and then we have to pay for the upgraded version when they go to Sprint LTE. I ordered online last night but now I think I am going to have to pull the plug on this one. Such a shame, great idea, LAME execution.
Creator Karen L on September 12, 2012
I agree with the previous posters. We should have been notified by email of the cancellation by FreedomPop not Kickstarter or FB. I don't feel comfortable giving my billing info, too. If you are that progressuve a company why not PayPal? In addition, no one should be charged until the device is shipped. Lastly, the shipping date has been delayed. Awesome idea, very poor marketing.
Creator FreedomPop on September 12, 2012
First of all, we want to thank you, our most valued early supporters, for helping FreedomPop with your Kickstarter funding. We apologize for being unable to communicate with you in last few hours since Kickstarter suspended our project. Unfortunately, we've been blocked, without notice or comment by Kickstarter from all communication with our supporters. Since our project was suspended and our team was provided no guidance from Kickstarter as to timing for re-enabling our project, we made the decision to cancel our project on Kickstarter and migrate our supporters to FreedomPop site for pre-order. We've already taken thousands of pre-orders via our website, ensuring launch of both our innovative devices and FREE wireless internet service over the next 6-8 weeks. If you already funded our Kickstarter project and want to guarantee your priority position for shipment, please pre-order your preferred Sleeve at FreedomPop.com and use your same First Name and Last Name as your Kickstarter account. All funding for our Kickstarter project has been canceled and you will only be charged by pre-ordering at FreedomPop
iPod Touch Sleeve - http://www.freedompop.com/freedom-sleeve-ipod-touch
iPhone Sleeve - http://www.freedompop.com/preorder.htm
We apologize for this inconvenience, however, Kickstarter left us no choice and we wanted to move as quickly as possible If you have any questions, please contact support@freedompop.com.
FreedomPop Team
Creator Irv on September 12, 2012
My (wild) guess is they were only using kickstarter as a advertising platform for their website preorder.
Creator Kiran Reddy on September 12, 2012
Something is fishy. I cancelled my website pre-order. The least they can do is send an email and not blurt it out like a teenager on FB.
Creator Frank Kelly on September 11, 2012
I know and saw there comment. However if you read the rules in Kickstarter it is my understanding that you can not take orders from your website until after the funding is done. After that process is done then you can take orders on your website. The orders taken under Kickstarter must be completed and ship before they can deal with the additional orders through their website. There is something wrong and I think that we need a more detail reason on what happened. I also never heard of them until I saw this Kickstarter Project. I am not sure that I want to subscribe to their plan until I know and understand what happen. However under the rules of Kickstarter they do not and will not comment on any action they take.
Creator Jeroen Dekkers on September 11, 2012
It would be nice to send an explaining email about this instead of having to hear it through the grapevine...
Creator Alexis Espinoza on September 11, 2012
Its on facebook people, freedom pop themselves canceled this because they got too many buys from website checkout there facebook page for more info
Creator Frank Kelly on September 11, 2012
According to Kickstarter they will not give any information as to why they issued there suspension. I can agree with Kieth that it could be the result of an infringement violation. However I think it may be the result of the carries contacting Kickstarter claiming that this device is infringing on there service contacts. do not know however if FreedomPop is a good company they will and should explain this to us here or in a private email.
Creator Kieth H. Vey on September 11, 2012
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I would be surprised if the Apple Legal Watchdogs sent off a nice letter to Kickstarter in the form of a Cease & Desist and well Kickstarter not wanting to be involved in anything of the sort just pulled their life raft aka Suspend the funding.
Im with all as this is total BS. No offense to FreedomPop, but I never heard of you before this. Not sure I feel 100% comfortable giving you my credit card info directly. This is irritating more and more as I talk. This was going to be a gift for my 6 year old daughter to attach to her Touch so we could Facetime whenever she wanted, not just limited to WiFi. Total F%^K Parade.
Creator Frank Kelly on September 11, 2012
FreedomPop
I think you need to explain to the backers what happen. I also will contact Kickstarter to hear there explanation. I read the comments from the other backers and it appears that there is "something is rotten in Denmark" with this project. We need the correct explanation.
Creator pharmac on September 11, 2012
This just came thru e-mail after I ordered on-line:
We've cancelled our Kickstarter project after selling thousands of iPod Touch / iPhone Sleeves at FreedomPop.com. We are self funding our project and guaranteeing product shipment to begin in 6-8 weeks.
If you've funded our Kickstarter project, pre-order your preferred Sleeve at FreedomPop.com and we'll guarantee priority shipment of your device.
Please make sure to use your same First Name and Last Name as your Kickstarter account when ordering from our website.
Soooo, maybe THEY cancelled the Kickstarter and are self-funding so as not to have to pay a percentage to Kickstarter or Amazon? I am now officially confused
Creator pharmac on September 11, 2012
This is total BULL, rules???? This has been on KICKSTARTER for how long before Kickstarter pulled the plug??? Absolutely BS! Read the Kickstarter FAQ..."No. For legal and privacy reasons, Kickstarter does not comment on moderator actions." Translation: WE"RE NOT GONNA TELL YA!!
Creator David Flores on September 11, 2012
Well, that's one dollar saved I suppose..
Creator Salvador Magdaleno on September 11, 2012
come on freedom pop creators respond faster. your page just got suspending and us backers would like to know why ASAP!!!
Creator Kiran Reddy on September 11, 2012
I hope Freedompop is wise enough to give Kickstarter supporters priority status. Kickstarter should have never accepted the project in the first place if it violated its own rules. It definitely shouldn't have taken them 30 days to decide. Sad on so many levels.
Creator Salvador Magdaleno on September 11, 2012
i was so excited about getting the freedom pop case. Ahhh!!! WTF, why did i get suspended?
Creator Marissa Mek. on September 11, 2012
I figured something odd must exist in kickstarter's rules, so I looked into the guidelines page and found this:
"Projects, projects, projects. As in all categories, Kickstarter is for projects that can be completed, not things that require maintenance to exist. This means no e-commerce sites, web businesses, or social networking sites. (Yes, this means Kickstarter wouldn’t be allowed on Kickstarter. Funny, but true.) "
I'm guessing that since Freedompop will require Clearwire to maintain a network in order for the product to exist properly, this is why kickstarter suspended the project.
Totally not cool, but up there on kickstarter's rules. Especially not cool because it was 105% funded and less than three days to completion.
So, when pre-ordering from the Freedompop site, the facebook page says that the orders are to be fulfilled starting late September and in order of when the pre-order was placed. Would that mean that we kickstarters would be at the end of the que even if we made our kickstarter pledge very early on?
Creator Kiran Reddy on September 11, 2012
Not cool Kickstarter! Not cool at all.
Creator Jeroen Dekkers on September 11, 2012
If Kickstarter did this, I assume they can fix it... I'm hoping they can anyways..
Creator FreedomPop on September 11, 2012
We've been provided NO information from Kickstarter as to why our project has been suspended.
In the meantime, preorder your sleeves below:
iPod touch sleeve - http://www.freedompop.com/freedom-sleeve-ipod-touch
iPhone sleeve - http://www.freedompop.com/preorder.htm
Creator Austin Yun Liu on September 11, 2012
Looks like once the project is suspended it can't be reopened by this FAQ on Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/search…
Creator Lorenz Kolb on September 11, 2012
Yes, what has happened?
Creator Jeroen Dekkers on September 11, 2012
I was looking forward to this project - what happened?
Creator Timothy Kozloski on September 11, 2012
I was wondering, could you post a photo of the limited edition t-shirt?
Creator FreedomPop on September 10, 2012
Bien: Yes, the Freedom Sleeve can be turned on and off which will turn the WiFi on and off. You connect your iPod to the Freedom Sleeve wirelessly just like you would connect to the WiFi network at your house, school, coffee shop etc. Upon receiving your device you can set up your network name and password through the device utility.
Sam: You will be able to select an additional service to receive SMS or push alerts when you are approaching the end of free data
Sam and Ravi: This is an interesting idea! We will be looking into this.
Odie: We don't have any specific plans to release a 5th generation iPod Freedom Sleeve at this point. We cannot make plans until the specifications have been released. If we are to make a Freedom Sleeve for the iPod 5th generation is is likely to be quite a ways down the road.
Creator pharmac on September 10, 2012
QUESTION...this is launching using Clearwires WiMax, and they you are switching to Sprint 4G LTE, what about us? Will we be left out as an early adopter?
Creator Odie Arkayus on September 9, 2012
I am aware that the sleeve will work without being attached to an iPod touch or anything else. However they are planning to launch a new iPod touch and I will be buying one of those and selling on my 4th gen iPod touch. My actual question is are you going to make a version available for the new model (I am willing to wait for such a product if it is planned for the future) and if it is planned can I ask to forego this sleeve for the next one?
Creator ravi on September 9, 2012
i like that idea sam brings up, i wouldnt mind paying 200 bucks for 1gb of data
Creator Sam Leung on September 8, 2012
Also, allow us to permanently add 500 mb to our account if we pay 100 dollars again? = to another freedom sleeve, and then allowing us to extend to 1gb more if we connect to more friends? So instead of getting another sleeve, to just increase our limit. Or have us pay a bit less due to the lack of the actual product?
Creator Sam Leung on September 8, 2012
How about instead of charging us if we go over, to just give us an option to turn off the internet connection once it reaches it's limit? This way, we won't have to constantly check.
Creator Bien Aguila on September 8, 2012
are we gonna be able to shut the wifi on and off? and how do people connect to it? does it need a password or the email address?
Creator Raymund R DeAsis on September 6, 2012
Thank you however I already have an extra battery already and what I really need is a simple device that can act as a portable hotspot. Besides I am planning to get an ipod touch anyway.
Creator FreedomPop on September 6, 2012
Raymund,
You mentioned you have an iPhone, we also have an iPhone Freedom Sleeve available for pre-order on our website for the iPhone 4/4S. If this is something you might be interested in instead you can pre-order here:
https://www.freedompop.com/preorder.htm
The iPhone Freedom Sleeve is the same concept as our iPod Freedom Sleeve and the deal you receive is the same as the one we our offering on Kickstarter for our iPod Freedom Sleeve. In addition, the iPhone Freedom Sleeve has the ability to provide the iPhone with 6+ hours of additional battery life.
Thanks for your support!
Creator Raymund R DeAsis on September 5, 2012
Thank you, this firms up my decision. Let's just say i spent a weekend in a place with only 4G signal for my iPhone with regards to internet service. Since I was not able to use such service for my laptop, the stay in the area was interesting to say the least.
Creator FreedomPop on September 5, 2012
Ray,
The Freedom Sleeve works as a hotspot with or without an iPod Touch.
Creator Raymund R DeAsis on September 4, 2012
does one need an iPod touch in order to use the sleeve for hotspot capabilities? I am wondering this since the sleeve clamps on to an iPod touch but there does not appear to be any further physical connections.
Creator FreedomPop on September 4, 2012
Marissa: You will monitor your data usage using our web/iOS app. If you go over your monthly data amount, your credit card on file will be charged a small amount so that you may continue using your FreedomPop service without interruption. Our partner promotions will be ways to earn additional free data by participating in available third party offers - there will be no cap to how much free data you can earn by doing this.
Pao: You will monitor your data usage using our web/iOS app.
Valery: On top of the 500MB/month guaranteed, by building your friend network you can earn 10MB of additional free data per month and receive "1GB free for life".
Deathwantsme: The iPhone Freedom Sleeve can connect directly through Mini USB and charge the phone using one cord. You will monitor your data usage using our web/iOS app.
If you go over your monthly data amount, your credit card on file will be charged a small amount so that you may continue using your FreedomPop service without interruption.
Similar to the iPod Freedom Sleeve, you will connect to the iPhone Sleeve using WiFi.
Creator sixsixty on September 4, 2012
"We will be shipping this month. We're pretty excited!" - Very excited to hear this!!!! Can't wait, I'm all set to cut out my cell service and move to freedompop!
Creator FreedomPop on September 4, 2012
Alemar: Because iPhone skins/cases are intended to fit over just the phone itself, you will have trouble fitting it over the phone and Freedom Sleeve
Michael: You'll use our data usage app to monitor your free data to ensure you do not go over.
Ravi: Our sincerest apologies! It could be because you are right outside of our coverage zone, please privately message your address so we can look at your coverage availability.
Karen: We will be shipping this month. We're pretty excited!
Creator Alemar Brito on September 4, 2012
Will one be able to attach a case or skin to the freedom sleeve? if so, would it be a iphone 4/4s case or skin? Do you know which case or skins would work?