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The iPhone is one fashionable cell phone. It has been the handset of choice for the “hipper” in our midst for a while, but there is something to give one pause about purchasing one. Namely, they are fragile, a fussbudget, and costly to repair, as one study estimates upward of $5.9 billion has been spent on iPhone repairs since the phone was released in 2007.
Paying for fixes pretty expensive
Crack open the business or technology section of most any major newspaper or magazine and typically there will be a new weekly heap of praise for Apple and the iPhone and/or the iPad. It's only going to get even worse when the iPhone5 comes out, which is going to take the brown-nosing to disgusting new lows. The obsequiousness of the press knows no boundaries for a while, but perhaps they might want to slow it down a bit.
Something that might give a person pause is the cost of iPhone repairs. According to Time magazine, SquareTrade estimates that $5.9 billion has been spent on iPhone repairs since the thing came out in 2007.
Clumsy owners probably cause
There were 2,000 participating iPhone owners in the SquareTrade survey, 11 percent of which damaged their phones and kept them with a cracked screen while 6 percent would hold the phone together with tape, according to Time. According to Businessweek, 30 percent of total owners ruined their phone in the last year.
Most damage was self-inflicted, and it can cost over $150 to replace a screen, which will cost a massive short term loan to replace. It was 10 times more likely that a person would damage their own phone than that it would get stolen or lost. People normally dropped their phone or somehow covered in it water when it came to getting the damage.
Perhaps one incentive toward buying the iPhone 5 is that it has only one pane of glass, the screen, instead of two. The case is also made from aluminum, instead of composite.
Does not matter what phone you get
There was a survey produced by wireless service company WDS, according to Wired, and they explained that Android owners were more likely to call in a repair than an iPhone user. Those who were thinking Android might be best because of this could want to take a second look at their own fixes because Google OS will not save you any cash.
If you wanted something better, a Windows Mobile system or Blackberry could be less likely to break down. About 14 percent of calls to the service center for Android had to do with hardware, whereas only 11 percent of iPhone calls had to do with hardware issues. About $2 billion annually is spent at telecom businesses fielding Android phone complaints.
Sources
Time
Wired
Paying for fixes pretty expensive
Crack open the business or technology section of most any major newspaper or magazine and typically there will be a new weekly heap of praise for Apple and the iPhone and/or the iPad. It's only going to get even worse when the iPhone5 comes out, which is going to take the brown-nosing to disgusting new lows. The obsequiousness of the press knows no boundaries for a while, but perhaps they might want to slow it down a bit.
Something that might give a person pause is the cost of iPhone repairs. According to Time magazine, SquareTrade estimates that $5.9 billion has been spent on iPhone repairs since the thing came out in 2007.
Clumsy owners probably cause
There were 2,000 participating iPhone owners in the SquareTrade survey, 11 percent of which damaged their phones and kept them with a cracked screen while 6 percent would hold the phone together with tape, according to Time. According to Businessweek, 30 percent of total owners ruined their phone in the last year.
Most damage was self-inflicted, and it can cost over $150 to replace a screen, which will cost a massive short term loan to replace. It was 10 times more likely that a person would damage their own phone than that it would get stolen or lost. People normally dropped their phone or somehow covered in it water when it came to getting the damage.
Perhaps one incentive toward buying the iPhone 5 is that it has only one pane of glass, the screen, instead of two. The case is also made from aluminum, instead of composite.
Does not matter what phone you get
There was a survey produced by wireless service company WDS, according to Wired, and they explained that Android owners were more likely to call in a repair than an iPhone user. Those who were thinking Android might be best because of this could want to take a second look at their own fixes because Google OS will not save you any cash.
If you wanted something better, a Windows Mobile system or Blackberry could be less likely to break down. About 14 percent of calls to the service center for Android had to do with hardware, whereas only 11 percent of iPhone calls had to do with hardware issues. About $2 billion annually is spent at telecom businesses fielding Android phone complaints.
Sources
Time
Wired