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“SquareTrade analyzed iPhone accidents for more than 20,000 iPhone 4s covered by one of its plans and found an 82 percent jump in reports of broken screens in the device’s first four months, compared to the first four months after the iPhone 3Gs release,” Evans reports. “Described as ’82 percent’ of course this sounds like a big deal, but in reality it means 3.9 percent of 20,000 iPhone 4 owners reported a cracked screen rather than 2.1 percent of 20,000 iPhone 3GS owners.”
Evans reports, “Before rolling with these figures, do consider the fact that the iPhone 4 has glass on the back as well as the front of the product, while the iPhone 3GS carried it only on the front of the device. It would be easy to conjecture that Apple should be seeing cracked screens twice as often with the iPhone 4 than with the iPhone 3GS. /it isn’t. This makes for a small testament to the strength of the aluminosilicate Gorilla glass used in the new iPhone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: After what our iPhone 4′s have gone through (dropped down stadium stairs, stepped on during an under-12 soccer game, tumbled onto a train platform, etc.) without being any worse for the wear, we can’t imagine (short of driving over it with a truck) what it would take to actually break an iPhone 4′s Gorilla Glass.
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