US warranty company SquareTrade has published information from over 10,000 Apple iPhones with SquareTrade warranties. It’s calculated that an iPhone owner has a projected 33% chance of their iPhone ‘dying’ within the first two years of ownership, with accidents – mainly drops and falls – accounting for the majority of these failures
Despite these problems, SquareTrade says the iPhone has a better failure rate from normal use when compared to the BlackBerry and Treo. [Press release via BusinessWire; full study]