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"According to SquareTrade, the warranty provider for the iPhone and other electronic devices, 25.6% of iPhone owners experienced a failure in the first two years of use. \nIt sounds like a lot, but it's actually below the industry average. Even more importantly, the iPhone is improving in this regard; the expected failure rate over two years was 33% one year ago, when SquareTrade only examined the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. \nFinally, most of the failures (18.1%) result from accidental damage, while only 7.5% are a result of a hardware malfunction. \n\n\n\n\nAs far as what's breaking, it's interesting to see the significant differences between the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS. Most of the failures of the iPhone 3G have to do with the touchscreen by far, followed by buttons, power and battery. \nLooking at iPhone 3GS, power is the biggest source of problems, followed by the touchscreen, battery and the buttons. It seems that Apple has improved the buttons and the display significantly between the two versions, but power and battery-related problems have actually worsened.\n\n\n\n\nRead the full report from SquareTrade here [PDF].\n[img credit: SquareTrade]\n\n\nFor more Apple coverage, follow Mashable Apple on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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