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Apple Fixing Broken iPhone Screens In-Store

Apple’s popular smartphone, the iPhone 3GS, is prone to mishandling and subsequent cracks in the screen. Apple is making it easier to fix the screen now by adding an in-store repair service.

Whether they’re dropped, squashed, smashed or outright trashed, many users find Apple’s sleek, delicate screens are prone to cracking. While Apple can’t do much to help you prevent dropping your iPhone, the company has made it easier to get the screen replaced. Apple blog The Loop confirmed that Apple is now fixing iPhone screens in retail locations.

The service is available for all three versions of the iPhone, the blog reported, although due to the manufacturing process involved in making the iPod touch, Apple retail representatives won’t be able to fix a cracked screen on it. “If your phone is under warranty and the screen needs to be replaced due to a defect with the device, there is no cost to have the screen replaced at a retail store,” wrote The Loop blogger Jim Dalrymple. “However, if it’s not a warranty issue, the cost of having the screen replaced is $199.”

For iPhone users out there who want to take the DIY approach to screen repair, there are options out there as well—but keep in mind Apple’s iPhone limited warranty “excludes coverage for damage resulting from accident, disassembly, unauthorized service and unauthorized modifications.”
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AT&T Says iPhone 3GS is Hot in a Good Way

The iPhone 3GS is hot according to AT&T. No, I’m not talking about the overheating issues, but a alleged leaked memo from the iPhone’s exclusive U.S. carrier. In the memo, AT&T reports the iPhone 3GS launch day on June 6 was the best-ever sales day for AT&T retail stores, according to MacDaily News.

June 6 was also the second largest traffic day for AT&T stores, and the most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day were performed during the iPhone 3GS launch day. The 3GS debut was so huge, for AT&T retail stores anyway, that sales for the device surpassed launch day sales for the iPhone 3G by noon Central Time.

After the iPhone 3GS initial launch weekend, Apple also reported a successful launch of its latest smart phone reporting that it had sold more than one million iPhone 3GS devices at Apple retail locations. That’s the same number Apple used to describe the iPhone 3G launch weekend last year.

What’s surprising, however, is a growing consensus that the iPhone 3GS debut may have been far bigger than the launch of the iPhone 3G. Last summer, the iPhone 3G debut was lauded as the most successful launch of any tech product in history. For days after its initial availability, fans were lining up around the block at Apple Stores across the United States and the world to get their hands on the iPhone 3G. Device shortages were a regular occurrence, and customers in less populated areas were left waiting for months to get their own wonder gadget from Apple.
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