For those of you with a white iPhone 4s

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Mag1c22

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I just got mine late last night and noticed that out of the box it had some dirt marks on the edges around the back and on the bottom left of the front. It still has the screen protectors on it. It has not even been in my pocket yet.

Anyways I scheduled a genius bar app to hopefully get a new one. I don't want a phone with dirt marks. And now I'll probably have to buy a case because apparently it gets dirty easily!!!

Anyone else notice this?
 
That's nothing. My ear speaker didn't work right out of the box! :eek:

Needless to say, I have an appointment today as well.
 
Mag1c22 said:
I just got mine late last night and noticed that out of the box it had some dirt marks on the edges around the back and on the bottom left of the front. It still has the screen protectors on it. It has not even been in my pocket yet.

Anyways I scheduled a genius bar app to hopefully get a new one. I don't want a phone with dirt marks. And now I'll probably have to buy a case because apparently it gets dirty easily!!!

Anyone else notice this?
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I don't know if it's dirt, but my white iPhone has dirt looking marks on the very top and bottom of the phone. It looks like the paint chipped off, or it was never fully painted correctly. Trying to decide if I want to take it in or not :(
 
sinsin07 said:
When it's a brand device and the dirt is not yours.
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Sorry, unless this dirt is somehow affecting the performance of the phone and rendering it unusable, Apple should not replace it. Otherwise, everyone with a dirty phone could just take it in and get a brand new phone.
 
skidbubble said:
Sorry, unless this dirt is somehow affecting the performance of the phone and rendering it unusable, Apple should not replace it. Otherwise, everyone with a dirty phone could just take it in and get a brand new phone.
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If its a mark thats ingrained in the plastic they had better replace it. On a brand new phone, that's a defect. When I bought my iPhone 4 it had a tiny, grain of sand size spec UNDER the screen. They replaced it no questions asked.

To the original poster, you said the screen protector films were still on? Are you sure the marks are not just on the film? When I got mine it looked like there was a mark but it was just dust or something under the film.
 
boshii said:
That's nothing. My ear speaker didn't work right out of the box! :eek:

Needless to say, I have an appointment today as well.
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did you take the front plastic cover off? you'd be surprised how many people dont and say they have problems!
 
Yeah it's not on the glass it's on the white edging of the phone. I'm still going in to have it looked at. Considering it came that way. It was never in my pocket and only was on my bed and the top of the 4s box.

Kinda weird if the paint chips and/or apparently gets dirty easily somehow.


It's not really noticeable unless you look hard for it, but I just got it. I want it in new condition.
 
I had a speck of dust embedded in top front screen right out of the box, had It exchange at att. I had to pay restocking fee and the manager was giving me a hard time about it.
 
chrislaw said:
Have you tried it without the plastic on the front? not trying to be smart lol
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Pez555 said:
did you take the front plastic cover off? you'd be surprised how many people dont and say they have problems!
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I actually hate that plastic. That's the first thing I take off.

They gave me a new phone with a working speaker.

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xjet82x said:
I had a speck of dust embedded in top front screen right out of the box, had It exchange at att. I had to pay restocking fee and the manager was giving me a hard time about it.
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Should have went to apple. They would have just swapped it out without a restocking fee.
 
Does anyone know if the used different materials to build the 4S? I feel like the exposed edge around the band feels like dry ceramic versus a plastic feel from what I remember on my black 4.

My point is... the white gets dirty and chips in a bad way. Anyone?
 
Those with the dirt issues, or "chipping", if it's anything that was on my phone, try using your nail to take it off and if that doesn't work, slide a sheet of paper between the glass and plastic and see if that will take care of it. That's what I did to remove my specks of dirty :)
 
When I took my white iphone out of the box and removed the plastic cover, there was three small bluish lines on the edge of the front faceplate in front of the volume buttons. I almost wanted to return it, but I decided not to. Apparently they were something from manufacturer or packaging, but now they're gone.
 
i had this issue with both the white ipod and phone. i picked up the ipod in store on the 12th and noticed a black scuff mark that i couldn't wipe/scratch off. the manager was right there and she gave me a new one just like that.

on my phone...right out of the box there was another tiny black scuff mark that i was able to scratch off w/my fingernail. still though, piss poor quality control c'mon now foxconn :D
 
Pooshka said:
It's white, what do you expect?
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I was going to ask the same thing. I understand if there's some sort of defect or damage to the phone when you first get it. But saying that it gets dirty easily...maybe you shouldn't have purchased a white phone ;)
 
That's the thing with white, u will notice a lot of imperfections and dirty very easily. With black, it hides them very well.
 
The Californian said:
Actually it's quite the opposite, especially with fingerprints.
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No he's right in this respect. Any paint that is missing will be instantly noticeable, whereas on the black you won't see it. My white iPhone has a tiny tiny black mark too, like they've missed a bit with the paint. Not noticeable but I'd never see that on a black one...because underneath the white paint is black.

Plus, when you drop it, which you will, the scuff marks will show far more on white when the paint comes off.
 
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