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Apple Reportedly Replaces Some Shattered iPhone 4 Units

Categories: Apple, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, June 25th, 2010 at 1:55 PM

Did you wait in line for 12 hours at an Apple Store, get an iPhone 4, run out of the store in glee with your new toy held high only to drop it and watch it fall in what must have been the lonest 1.5 seconds of your life? Some would feel really sorry for you, others would point and laugh. Not Apple, though. Apparently, some unlucky-turned-lucky iPhone 4 owners were able to get Apple to replace their cracked-up-jacked-up handsets.

According to some readers over at Gizmodo, Apple replaced their iPhones when they became shattered by impact. I’m a little skeptical, and even if it’s true I’m sure that Apple made a few exceptions. I highly doubt that Apple is just going to go swapping out every single cracked or shattered device out there. After all, it’s not like the computer giant went out and made a fragile cell phone whose exterior is comprised almost entirely of glass. Oh. Right.

[Via: Gizmodo]

Here’s a shattered iPhone 4 gallery of pain and anguish. Have any more pics? Leave a comment and we’ll add more!

After trying to recreate the Death Grip. [via Giz]

[via Jared Franklin]

From a staged drop test, without the circuit board. [via iFixYourI]

Second drop test from same guys, this time with fully-functioning OS. [via iFixYourI]

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About The Author

Marc Flores

Marc has been a mobile fanatic for the better part of a decade and has had more devices pass through his hands than he would care to count. Originally from Los Angeles and briefly in San Francisco, Marc now lives in Brooklyn where, unlike Will Park, he longs for simpler times and simpler technology. All the while, he writes about gadgets and wireless technology as he tinkers, hacks and ultimately breaks most of his gadgets in the process. Marc has written about the mobile industry for Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Laptop Magazine and has had his work appear in the Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and more.

  • AK Grandma

    The back panel of my new G4 shattered in one fall when my phone slipped from my hand in a Walmart parking lot. I'm short, and the fall was no more than 2.5 feet. The G4 is an amazing instrument, but it lacks the durability needed for the normal activity of this 61-year-old grandma. Need I say more?

  • jennifer

    why would anyone expect an electronic devive designed to be touch sensitive to survive being dropped? The glass case is amazingly scratch proof. My iphone spends the day in my purse, josseled around, with my keys, coins and a metal pen and has yet to encounter a scratch! The iphone is a high tech gadget for people who can afford such items, if someone cannot afford to replace it after they drop it why did they buy it in the first place?