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Study Finds iPhone Twice As Reliable As BlackBerry

Posted by timothy on from the joe-random-study dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As reported at TechCrunch, '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 after one year is 5.6 percent, compared to 11.2 percent for the BlackBerry and 16.2 percent for the Treo.' The full report (pdf) can be found at the SquareTrade site."

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  1. Or?? by eclectro · · Score: 1, Troll

    Is it because iphone users are more careful with the iphone, not wanting to break their purchase, or use it out of fear of breaking, or use it because it would involve removing it from its shrine?

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  2. Re:OMGITSSOOOOOSHINY by RedWizzard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Personally, I see and use the iPhone as an appliance, not as a platform, which is what a real Smartphone is. iPhone is not in the same league...

    Interesting opinion. Care to elaborate?

  3. Re:OMGITSSOOOOOSHINY by jellomizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't think so. Have you ever used an iPhone for any period of time? These things are quite solid. Just pick one up and they feel heavy to their size. As well as little moving buttons vs. Hundreds of buttons on a blackberry and a scroll ball which has all the problems that a mechnical muse will have plus being stored in your pocket. Also even though you may pay slot for it after the newness factor wares off you tend to treat it like any other device.

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  4. Re:OMGITSSOOOOOSHINY by nxtw · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm still skeptical about Android for the same reason, Java-only for 3rd party development. Since it's open source someone could technically "fork" it to a platform that allows native coding, but that'd be it's own thing and not have the industry backing. So far "just fork it" hasn't worked in creating a mass market force for OSS systems on the workstations, and it won't be any different on smartphones.

    You *are* using the same APIs on the BlackBerry and Android.

    Apple doesn't "let" you write native code with the same APIs they use -- you have to if you want to follow their rules (and run your own software on unhacked devices.) This is the same for BlackBerry and Android; it just happens that the language you have to use is Java. In some ways, iPhone software is more limited than BlackBerry software.

    On the other hand, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and PalmOS all support languages other than the one they were developed in. There are JVMs for all platforms to run J2ME software. Windows Mobile supports .NET. I believe there's Python interpreters for Windows Mobile and Symbian.