Q&A: Why did they make the iPhone screen out of glass?

Question by Wedoitjustforfun: Why did they make the iPhone screen out of glass?

It seems like the stupidest design flaw ever. You only have to drop it once and its screwed! Phone makers realise phones get dropped really easily yet they make them out of easy to break material. They are just trying to make more money out of people right? Make people have to fork out for a new one all the time or the excess for a replacement. I don’t have an iPhone but people keep telling me to get one. I don’t doubt they are an awesome piece of kit but I can’t get over that they are made of glass. Knowing my luck I’d drop it in the first week. Most of my friends who have iPhones are going about with broken screens from having dropped them and as they are students and can’t afford to buy new or get a replacement. I had a iPod that I dropped out of my college locker and that smashed. Although it still worked I couldn’t watch anything on it. I bought the case for it to prevent that from happening but theres nothing to protect the screen apart from a thin piece of sticky plastic and a lot of good that did. It kept coming un stuck, i’d keep finding the plastic loose in my pocket. I also cut my finger trying to use it. I was furious about it. I will never buy another one.

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Answer by tawsif
maybe its not a design flaw. maybe they built it intensionaly so that if you brake one you have to buy another one.

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Can I sue apple for deteroriating my vision from using their iphone?

Question by Prabowo: Can I sue apple for deteroriating my vision from using their iphone?

Because the way the interface is designed, it is displayed like a very small laptop screen, and it is uncomfortable to zoom in when browsing the net/safari.
Blackberry has even smaller screen, but web sites are displayed in columns, with fairly large enough character to read.
It is apple’s design flaw to not utilize larger screens (like on some android phones), or arranging the websites on safari in easier to read format. If this continue I’ll need to stop using iphone for browsing (which is one of my main reason to buy them in the first place), or I’ll need new lens for my eyewear very soon.

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Answer by @Kirsty@
Oh p-lease if it’s that bad get a new phone

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Simple Illustration of iPhone 4 Antenna Problem / Flaw / Reception Issues When You Hold in Your Hand

Simple illustration of major design flaw in new iPhone 4 antennas. Data-transfer completely shuts off when the two antennas are bridged, but instantly returns when unbridged.

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The Epic Journey to Creating an iPhone Game!!!! ?Video Journal?

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iPhone 4 Antenna Design Flaw (Lost Bars)

Here is my iPhone 4 32GB in Black. Picked up today due to pre-order at the Apple Store in Providence Place Mall, Providence, Rhode Island. Got there at 6:30AM, left with phone in hand at 9:45AM. Here is a video of me performing several tests on the newly found design flaw on the antenna system where when held in a certain way, cell phone reception vanishes from 5 bars to 1 bar. Hands might have moisture on them due to me washing hands just previously. Bumper case on shows NO loss in signal whatsoever. Video recording using iPhone 3GS 32GB White

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iPhone 4 UK O2 Design Fault Reception Failure

Heres a Demonstration of me holding an iPhone 4 on O2-UK in England in the “Death Grip” I Returned the iPhone.

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iPhone 4 Signal Loss and Dropped Calls Due to Antenna Design Flaw

iPhone 4 Signal Loss and Dropped Calls Due to Antenna Design Flaw

Cupertino we have a problem!

It seems that the “most precise thing” ever done by Apple, as Steve Jobs referred to when talking about the new antenna, is provoking a drop in signal when the new iPhone 4 is held in the palm. The metal sides of the iPhone are the antenna thus giving the phone the largest cell phone antenna ever. That seemed to be a great idea, especially that no one else was doing it. Perhaps for a good reason.

Unfortunately, sometimes, what seems to be a great idea on paper turns out not to be so great when put in practice! When the human hand touches an antenna in a single spot, it will increase the signal to the antenna due to the body’s approximately 75% water composition which allows us to conduct electricity. However, when there are multiple points of contact it will create a drop in signal due to electromagnetic interference, as the owners of the new iPhone 4 have noticed. The call quality drops, signal bars are lost, and since it’s a design flaw, it’s a much more serious issue than a software bug would be.

Apple admitted the existence of the problem and their customer support representatives are offering a solution: use “bumper cases” to prevent the hand from touching the antenna or avoid holding the phone in your hand! Both are pretty horrible solutions to a hardware problem that should be fixed by Apple.

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iPhone Tip # 1 Fault OR Feature

iPhone Tips – Fault or Feature. iPhones are sent for repair and they’re not faulty. See how & why.

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iPhone Tips – Fault or Feature. iPhones are sent for repair and they’re not faulty. See how & why.

UK IPhone 4 Design Fault on o2 Reception Signal Problems

The Bottom Left of the phone is the 3G Signal Antenna ,The Top right is the Bluetooth Antenna, when you hold the two together,you bridge the connection and cause the Signal to drop BIG Design Fault by Apple , The official response from Steve jobs was “Hold it differently” At a guess i think this is just the 3G side of it that causes the problem, as US Iphone users are instantly switched to Edge ,where as the UK customers go to the crawling standard mobile data

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