Plastic Backings of iPhones Becoming Cracked

by Adam Yan on July 30, 2008 at 10:00 am

Are you protecting your brand new iPhone 3G like a baby? Well good if you are, ’cause iPhone 3G users are reporting that their iPhone 3G plastic back pieces appear to have tiny thin cracks on various areas.

Though most cracks have been reported on white iPhone 3G users compared to the black iPhone 3G users, only because black hides cracks much more easily than white. Since reports about people’s 3G iPhones are popping up around the globe this can’t be a simple user problem simply by dropping their precious devices on the ground. A factory defect most likely, or a really bad bumpy ride to your closest GSM carrier branch from the Apple factories.

Thankfully, its only a cosmetic tragedy and doesn’t appear to effect the operation of the phone. So, bust out your glasses or your detective kit or whatever helps you see small hairlike cracks and scan your iPhone’s back over and over again. If you do appear to find one, you could bring it into an Apple store to see what they can do, but really if it doesn’t affect the phones operation and functions it won’t be covered under your Apple waranty; try though, you never know what you can squeeze out of them.

Now don’t you wish you had your brushed metal back piece back instead of this questionable plastic one? Awhile back, speculation did arise about how the plastic back will affect the build of the device. Indeed, this doesn’t look like Apple got a checkmark for that question.

(Via Engadget)

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