iPhone duffs up Blackberry in smartphone reliability fight

Davey Winder
Monday, 10 November 2008 20:24

IT Industry - Market

The iPhone, however, again performs well in these projections with a predicted two year failure rate of between 9.2 and 11.3 percent. Not brilliant, but by far the best of the three smartphones.

Interestingly, the most common cause of iPhone death was shown to be an accident, with 12 percent being down to the owner dropping it or spilling their coffee on the thing.
 
A situation that may, of course, get much worse if the iPhone starts making the coffee.

Back in the real world of the here and now, only 9 percent of the Blackberry and Treo failures were accidental, suggesting that iPhone owners are either clumsy or the design of the iPhone is such that it makes dropping the device more likely during day to day usage.

There was no mention, however, of problems with iPhone power adapters breaking in this report.

But the biggest surprise for me was learning that less than 0.5 percent of iPhone failures were battery related, half as many as the Blackberry in fact.

So while iPhone users may be vocal about battery life issues, it seems they have less to moan about that Crackberry addicts.