The iPhone X's Back Glass Is Fragile and an Expensive Nightmare to Repair

The iPhone X's Back Glass Is Fragile and an Expensive Nightmare to Repair

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Apple’s $1,000 iPhone X has hit the market and it’s certainly a phone. It makes calls, takes pictures of dogs, and is encased in a glass shell so fragile users are almost guaranteed to break it. It’s a beautiful phone, but very delicate. It’s like a Fabergé egg you can use to tweet.

“The iPhone X is easily the least durable iPhone made yet in my opinion,” Aakshay D Kripalani, CEO of Injured Gadgets—an independent cell phone repair service based out of Georgia—told me via a Facebook message. “Especially with the entire back being made of glass.”

The iPhone X's Back Glass Is Fragile and an Expensive Nightmare to Repair

Nov 8, 2017, 8:36pm UTC
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwa5nq/iphone-x-back-glass-repair > Apple’s $1,000 iPhone X has hit the market and it’s certainly a phone. It makes calls, takes pictures of dogs, and is encased in a glass shell so fragile users are almost guaranteed to break it. It’s a beautiful phone, but very delicate. It’s like a Fabergé egg you can use to tweet. > “The iPhone X is easily the least durable iPhone made yet in my opinion,” Aakshay D Kripalani, CEO of Injured Gadgets—an independent cell phone repair service based out of Georgia—told me via a Facebook message. “Especially with the entire back being made of glass.”