Study: iPhones Twice As Reliable As BlackBerries

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mobilecrunch.com - 11/7/2008

Study: iPhones Twice As Reliable As BlackBerries

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The iPhone is twice as reliable as the Blackberry after one year of ownership, a new study by SquareTrade finds. SquareTrade, which sells extra warranties for cell phones and other devices, looked at the failure rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones ...

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Study: Apple iPhones twice as reliable as RIM BlackBerries
MacDailyNews — ... rates of 15,000 phones covered under its plans. The malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for the Blackberry and 16.2 percent for the Treo," Erick Schonfeld reports for MobileCrunch. [image] "The study projects that the failure rate for the iPhone after two years will be between 9.2 and 11.3 percent, compared to actual two-year failure rates of 14.3 percent for BlackBerries and 21.0 percent for Treos," Schonfeld reports. Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Opportun" for the heads up.] ...

Study Says iPhone is More Reliable Than Blackberry or Treo
Cult of Mac — ... call quality problems to be major issues for the iPhones that did fail. As was true with all three models in the study, the predominance of failure-related issues had to do with the touchscreen interface. One area where iPhone does appear to lag its two main competitors is in failure due to accident: 12 percent of iPhone failures happen because the owner drops it, spills liquid on it, or otherwise stops treating it like the sensitive mobile computing device it is. Via MobileCrunch