There is nothing more frustrating than dropping your precious iPhone, picking it up, and then finding the darn thing completely cracked. Apple will happily replace a cracked iPhone 4S with a refurbished one, as long as you are signed up for the $99 Apple Care program.
However, a new phone brings new changes. The folks at iMore, who have been on-key with Apple news in the past, report that broken iPhone 5 displays will physically be replaced in-store and no longer will customers be handed a refurbished device. The report added that the equipment to swap screens has begun popping up in retail stores:
The iPhone 5’s new unibody design makes the front panel easily replaceable. Apple could do similar with the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS until the redesigned body for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S made it much more difficult.
Want to see the innards of the iPhone 5? Check out this teardown.
