Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chips are ‘normal’

Re:Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chi... by lloeki on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:12AM (#4575702)

> Glass is probably the poorest material possible for the obvious reason.

Yet the iPhone 4 that I own since about release day has fallen an impossible number of times from unsuspected heights, and both front and back panels survived the abuse. I'd buy another such "poor material" phone anytime.

The only shattered iPhone 4 panel I encountered was my boss's, and it fell from the kinetic equivalent of second floor onto concrete. He's still using it because only a corner is affected, and a replacement front panel costs too much (I bet he'll get an iP5)

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Re:Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chi... by blub on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:30AM (#4575811)

Ok, but what does that prove really? The bottom line is that while virtually all phones can crack their screen, i4(s) is the only phone that can just as easily crack its back.

The most important property of glass is transparency, while the big disadvantage is that it breaks catastrophically. You get no benefits and all of the downsides when using it for the opaque back plate. It does look nice, but there are other nice looking materials available.

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Re:Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chi... by jack-r-abbit on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @12:25PM (#4576459)

And George Burns smoked several cigars every day for 70 years and never got lung or mouth cancer. Many, many, many other people were not so lucky.

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Re:Apple responds to iPhone 5 scuffs, says scratches and chi... by beagle3 on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @04:40PM (#4577914)

Anecdote: My 4s fell from pocket height onto concrete. Screen was shattered, but the phone was still usable.

And, for "just" $200, Apple replaced it with a new one.

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