{"id":49,"date":"2010-05-26T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2010-06-23T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T06:31:58","slug":"iphone-3g-case-crack-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 3G Case Crack Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had an iPhone 3G since the day it was released almost 2 years ago. It’s been awesome and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to “dumb” phones ever again. In the last few months, I noticed that my phone developed two cracks in the rear casing – one from the dock connector radiating upwards and one from the mute switch headed inwards. Over time, they got worse and worse – by the time I got it fixed, the dock connector crack was about 1 inch long.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, I’ll mention that my iPhone always rides in my front pocket on it’s own.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, when I bought the phone I also picked up the 2-year AppleCare warranty. As this writer at MacWorld<\/a> did, I setup an appointment with the Genius Bar of my local Apple Store, brought it in and got it replaced. I’m really glad I made an appointment, because the day I showed up the place was packed and there was a long wait list for the Genius Bar. I simply breezed up to the bar, told them I had an appointment and they took care of me right there. The tech gave the phone a once over for signs of abuse, scoped the headphone jack to check for moisture damage and told me that the cracks were “between a covered defect and accidental damage,” but that they’d replace the phone anyway. A few minutes later, he brought out a refurbished unit, popped in the SIM from my old phone, activated it, and a few signatures later, I was on my way.<\/p>\n

Painless. And pretty much guarantees I’ll get the AppleCare Warranty when I pickup the iPhone 4G\/HD\/whatever they call it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had an iPhone 3G since the day it was released almost 2 years ago. It’s been awesome and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to “dumb” phones ever again. In the last few months, I noticed that my phone developed two cracks in the rear casing – one from the dock connector radiating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[27,28,26,37,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-49","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"tag-apple","8":"tag-crack","9":"tag-iphone","10":"tag-iphone-3g","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robogourmet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}