High Cost Of iPhone X Repair

Better not to drop your new iPhone X. If it is damaged, you are for an ugly surprise: The most expensive smartphone available on the market is also the most pricey to repair. The cost to fix a cracked screen at an Apple provider is US$279. That is considerably more than replacing a cracked screen on previous iPhone versions. If there's other harm, the repair price jumps to US$549 - more than half the retail price of that phone.

In comparison, the cost to repair a cracked screen on iPhone 8 is US$169 along with other harm is US$349, according to Apple's repair pricing page. Square Trade tested the X and found it to be the most breakable, iPhone it's ever tested. It scored 90 out of 100 points, making it high risk, model. The Samsung Note8, which scored 80, had previously held been named the most fragile phone, on the market. SquareTrade. And consider this: While Apple says iPhone X has the most durable glass ever used in one smartphone, several durability tests have found that it is easily damaged.

The high price to fix the iPhone X is because of its sophisticated technology. It's got a glass front and rear, a smaller logic board, and a split battery which are all more challenging to remove. The front screen is a thin and expensive OLED display - a view utilized in high end televisions - which has extra functionality built into it. The camera is embedded in the screen - so if you break the glass, you've to replace the camera. The face of the camera, used for facial recognition technology, is embedded in this front screen, Bree Fowler, smartphone editor at Consumer Reports, told NBC News.

So if you simply break the glass on the screen, you are going to have to replace that camera, too., In other words, with the iPhone X, if the screen is seriously cracked, you may not be able to skip over repairs as you can with other smartphones. Apple didn't respond to a request for comment by NBC News for this story. So how easy is it to break? The iPhone X, with its glass front and rear, has two vulnerable surfaces. Consumer Reports has completed a limited tests on the iPhone X - a series of standard drop tests from five feet. It survived all four tests - face, back, and two corners - with only a few small scrapes, the editors write. The second X was dropped onto its top edge 4 times from a height of 3 legs to check the durability of the Face ID camera. Results: whilst the coating on the glass appeared to be easily delaminated, the ID face continued to work.