A study by SquareTrade's warranty provider found that 26% of all iPhones experience hardware failure in the first two years of use.
Of course, SquareTrade sells guarantees to cover these incidents. However, a study of customer claims, 25.000 has found that the reliability of the iPhone is on the rise. You can read the full report here
Last year's report covering the iPhone2g and iPhone 3G indicates that the problem rate is 33%. For the iPhone 3G, it was found that most of the cases have to do with the current, followed by the touch screen, the battery and the home button issues. Perhaps the most worrying detail is that more than 18,1% are from accidental slips and falls. Only 7,5% were caused by hardware malfunction.
Vince Tseng, Vice President of Marketing at SquareTrade, told Computer World that he expects the iPhone to remain more reliable in the future.
He also hopes that the iPhone 4 "must be a good solid device" although this recent post worries us a little that less than 48 hours after receiving the device the guys from endgaget show us some serious scratches on the Iphone 4 here… .. we will have to wait to see
Well, mine is going to be two years old. I hope nothing happens to him for now until he changes it.
I had a 3g for almost two years and it was and it worked perfect and I used it until I couldn't, I dropped it, played, listened to music, chatted, etc. and I'm not complaining only that now I have a 3gs, and I think there are phones that last less than two years for example the blackberrys that are sold so much, and I have seen almost everyone that I know that in less than a year they have had thousands of problems with that phone that if they are broken, misconfigured, etc.
This is how I like my parishioners who go out to defend my product without paying, remember that I do everything for their good, even sending them spam
Of course Luis Antonio, the truth is that it is a matter of being careful ... .. a good case and that's all ... .. what is true is that apple plays marketing running out of stocks and making updates by drops hehehehe for example details such as the camera on the ipad…. If they had taken out the ipad with a camera, the iphone 4 would have lost importance, so now in December they take out the new ipad with a camera and come back and generate a market …… .. but what are we going to do hehehehe
Thank you for your comment Carlos Jobs hehehehehehejeejje
That is why I insist on the policy of changing the phone every year, every time I can renew the contract, I sell my iPhone, I pay the rest of the current contract, I renew and they give me the new one, I even have a little wool left over to buy covers or whatever , on this occasion, I can renew in January, so I sell my 3gs and I get the 4, by then any defect that may have already been corrected, hahaha, greetings ... ..
Good analysis Josue, ……
I have a first generation that is going to be 3 years old and it still works without problems, it is like new.