Yea, but what if you drop your phone and it snaps in half how much is it going to cost to fix it?
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Shattered iPhone 3GS
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Yea, but what if you drop your phone and it snaps in half how much is it going to cost to fix it?
Best bet.
Not covered under warranty. (apple warranty)
Advice to never follow:
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As previous posters said.
As previous posters also said.Amex does.
You can run it over with your car and Amex will replace it.
Sorry but candy shell has nothing to do with this. It offers no screen protection. See a crack in the plastic? No? Ok then, no failure on the Candy Shell cases' part.
OP: The $199 is your best bet, which you already know.
when it dropped, i was surprisingly kinda calm, thinking about how good the Speck candyshell is but then i looked down and saw it was screen down...and then got scared
The Speck Candyshell has a thick rubber lip that runs around the screen face of the iPhone and protrudes out about 1/4". If it landed flat on the concrete that rubber lip should have protected the phone.
Awesome!
Maybe fall to your knees while you are crying and mumble, she is not going to be happy - I can't go back to her with it like this.... is not safe for me....
Yeh, then a week later say it got stolen and sell it on ebay and then get a new one from the insurance company. Repeat several times until you have enough money to buy all future iphones. Tip: make up different reason why you need a new one to avoid looking suspicious e.g. dropped it off a boat into a whales blow hole, accidental stuck it in the nuclear reactor at work, an ape stole it at the zoo and fed it to a zebra or anything else that is believable
And you wonder why insurance cost so much....
Yeh, my rebel saved my phone heaps of times until i replaced it with a switch easy color which also saved my phone plenty of times. But now i don't use a case.
I have the same case and the phone dropped on a corner, bounced, then landed on it's face ... it was fine.
Thats main reasons i bought it. I thought it would do a good job in a direct landing on the screen...but it didnt. Only good thing is that the case and everything other than the screen is in great shape. The candyshell did its job as far as protecting what is covered
Maybe the concrete where it landed was convex or curved and so the concrete could make it to the screen.
I still think that case should have protected the phone if it landed on a flat surface.
If everyone thought as you did the world would be a rotten place to live. Billions of opportunists openly cheating every way they could to save a buck. The few honest people paying for it.
Insurance
Square Trade covers Accidental loss for the iPhone. Have had it on the 3g too. Apple will not cover it.
Been using the Casemate hard leather case (for AT&T now). That thing has saved both iPhones in falls, the 2g and the 3g.
Was thinking about another case. Will cross off the Speck Candyshell.
Put the 3GS in the Casemate leather case. Thing is still in excellent shape.
Hmmm maybe don't mess with success.
Sorry about your incident.
Went out to my car tonight, iPhone slipped out of my hand and .... Landed Screen first on the concrete. Had a brand new Speck candyshell on it, which of course did nothing for screen protection.
Now...my brand new 3GS has a completely shattered screen
Now, i am off to buy a new one i guess. Apple doesnt cover this type of thing right? Question...though i think i already know the answer... Since i bought the new 3GS under subsidize pricing ($199) and apple wont cover screens breaking, so i am going to have to buy a 2nd one to replace my new one for the list price or can i get the subsidized price again?
Any idea if i could sell it on ebay or here for... $100?
Square Trade covers Accidental loss for the iPhone. Have had it on the 3g too. Apple will not cover it.
Been using the Casemate hard leather case (for AT&T now). That thing has saved both iPhones in falls, the 2g and the 3g.
Was thinking about another case. Will cross off the Speck Candyshell.
Put the 3GS in the Casemate leather case. Thing is still in excellent shape.
Hmmm maybe don't mess with success.
Sorry about your incident.
Huh?
Apple doesn't even cover accidental loss with Applecare.
You can get it via SquareTrade.com.
Why do you say this?
Apple doesn't even cover accidental loss with Applecare.
You can get it via SquareTrade.com.
Why do you say this?
Incase Fail
Wow, I had heard some place did a replacement screen for $40. Free due to a solid from a guy at the Apple Store is amazing.
Guess you do not use the Incase anymore. Scratch that from my potential replacement/addition to the Casemate (for AT&T) hard leather case.
That thing saved two previous iPhones at least six times. Amazing.
Wow, I had heard some place did a replacement screen for $40. Free due to a solid from a guy at the Apple Store is amazing.
Guess you do not use the Incase anymore. Scratch that from my potential replacement/addition to the Casemate (for AT&T) hard leather case.
That thing saved two previous iPhones at least six times. Amazing.
Do you do curls with that or clean and jerk?
Just kidding. Looks sturdy.
Lift with the back, lift with the back...
It also might help if you bought your case through Apple as well. With my first gen iPhone I had it only a couple of weeks and it slipped out of the case, landed face down, and slid down our driveway. I walked in with the shattered screen iPhone, the case, and the receipt showing I bought both from them and they replaced (not repaired) the iPhone and refunded me for the crappy case.
What the **** is wrong with you? Do you have any honesty, any morals, any pride in yourself? People like you don't deserve to be alive. You know what? You're a liability to the rest of the world. You're the cause of the current recession. It's all your fault that things has gone wrong in this world. Good luck living happily knowing you caused stress for millions of people!
That was my rant.
What the **** is wrong with you? Do you have any honesty, any morals, any pride in yourself? People like you don't deserve to be alive. You know what? You're a liability to the rest of the world. You're the cause of the current recession. It's all your fault that things has gone wrong in this world. Good luck living happily knowing you caused stress for millions of people!
That was my rant.
It might be a cultural thing. I've met people from certain parts of the world, certain countries that believe that cheating or stealing is okay as long as you get away with it and they say that everyone there feels the same way.
Pretty good....
Thanks for the laugh. For some reason I hear it like with the Bill Murray accent from Groundhog Day. (When he's giving driving instructions to the groundhog.)
Thanks for the laugh.
For some reason I hear it like with the Bill Murray accent from Groundhog Day. (When he's giving driving instructions to the groundhog.)