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Smartphone reliability: iPhone 4 with fewest failures, but…

March 21, 2012November 11, 2010

A new study conducted by SquareTrade after analyzing failure rates of over 5,000 smartphones covered by SquareTrade Care Plans, shows that Apple’s iPhone 4 has the fewest failures with 2.1% failures within its first year. Below Apple you find Motorola with 2.3% and HTC with 3.7%. Another interesting observation is that when it comes … Read more →

Survey: 33% Of All Laptops Break Within 3 Years

November 21, 2009

A survey made by an American electronics insurance company, SquareTrade, reports that 33% of all laptops break within just three years. Hardware issues makes up for 66% of those cases. Cheap netbooks (small notebooks) are even more likely to break, in fact the failure rate is 20% higher and the chance of hardware failure is … Read more →