The iPhone is having a astral twelvemonth . First , itblasts past RIM ’s Blackberryin sales . Then it ousts Motorola ’s RAZR as the top - selling handset of all meter . And , nowa reportfrom mobile phone guarantee firm SquareTrade says that Apple ’s iPhone is the most reliable smartphone on the market , surpassing both Blackberrys and Palm Treos .
SquareTrade ’s tests were conduct on 15,000 earpiece covered by company warrantee . In its first year , the Blackberry has a failure rate double that of the iPhone . The iPhone ’s unsuccessful person rate was listed at 5.6 percent , compared to 11.9 percent for the Blackberry and 16.2 percentage for the Treo .
At the prison term of the subject area , the iPhone was 15 month old , and SquareTrade was unable to say with certainty how the phone would do an superfluous twelvemonth out . The company ’s projection of how the phone would do two years in , however , still have the iPhone skidding in below the Treo ’s and Blackberry ’s numbers by a considerable gross profit margin : 11.3 percentage equate to the Blackberry ’s 14.3 percent and the Treo ’s 21 pct .
The study concentre on handset malfunctions and not accidental scathe triggered by the consumer , though . And accidental harm is where the iPhone trigger off up . Due to its sleek , tricky plan , the iPhone fails due to accidental bang - ups 33 pct of the time . Twelve percent of iPhone owners report inadvertent scathe in comparison to the other two company , which report 9 percentage . At least we know it ’s kind of our fault rather than the manufacturer ’s fault , though .
It ’s also important to note that SquareTrade did not take into thoughtfulness malfunction that would be enshroud by software and/or microcode update , so all thoseearly - on 3Gandbattery issueswere not a part of the study .
