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Five Ways iPhone Insurance Beats AppleCare -Verizon iPhone

Five Ways iPhone Insurance Beats AppleCare -Verizon iPhone

| February 9, 2011 | 11 Comments

If you just ordered your iPhone 4 on Verizon and are patiently, yeah right, waiting for delivery, here’s a look at how you can keep your iPhone protected with iPhone Insurance. Unlike your old phone on Verizon, you can’t purchase protection against accidental damage direct from Verizon. Rather than buying AppleCare, which doesn’t cover accidental [...]

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iPhone 4 Breaks More than Previous iPhones says Squaretrade Study

iPhone 4 Breaks More than Previous iPhones says Squaretrade Study

| October 14, 2010 | 0 Comments

As we previously reported, there seems to be a problem with the iPhone 4 glass. Now SquareTrade, a company that sells extended warranties of electronics including the iPhone 4, has a study that shows the iPhone 4 glass breaks 82 percent more often than the previous generations of the iPhone. There were 20,000 iPhone 4 [...]

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AT&T iPhone Insurance and Some Alternatives

AT&T iPhone Insurance and Some Alternatives

| May 31, 2010 | 7 Comments

Would you pay $13.99 for insurance on your iPhone? Based on some pictures of internal documents given to Boy Genius it may be coming soon. The cost seems a little steep if that was the only cost. But you would also have a big deductible on top of the monthly charge. Here are the details: [...]

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Crash and Burn: 1 in 3 Notebooks fail within 3 years

Crash and Burn: 1 in 3 Notebooks fail within 3 years

| November 23, 2009 | 0 Comments

Squaretrade, a company that provides third party warranties, released the results of a notebook durability which found that nearly a third of notebooks fail within 3 years. The study, performed on 30,000 laptops under their care, found that 20.4% died of hardware failures and 10.6% failed due to damage caused by an accident. The study [...]

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