Hello peeps,
I live in Darwin Australia and on the 13 February this year I bought a shiney new 32gb 3gs. I was stoked with it and loved the new toy. On the 1st of March the backlight stopped, and a few days I took it to the store to be repaired. Then 10 (yes ten) weeks later I get a call telling me that it was water damaged and the repair is $300.
Well I am both annoyed and flabbergasted as the phone has never been near water?!? I got my phone back (unrepaired) and sure enough the docking port has a pink tinge but the headphone port is white.
I work at the local public hospital and I ran around and looked at 5 3GS iphones I could find (that are working) and ALL 5 have the pink indicator in the bottom port, and white headphone port. While I cannot vouch for the history of these 5 "samples" I think that is a bit rich, and that I can see a case forming.
A bit of background, Darwin has just come out of the "Wet" (monsoon season for the last 4 Months) I imagine that all the phones that have been inside then outside (my glasses fog EVERY time I go outside) then all phones are going to be affected.
As I see it there are 2 issues: 1 I didnt get the phone wet. period! and secondly If I get a large proportion with an indicator failure and the phones function for a year, the indicator is flawed as a detector.
Anyone else from a tropical location got a water indicated phone? (and pretty confident the phone wasnt immersed?)
I am a very disappointed IPhone user that will go back to nokia :-(
Regards
Brett
I live in Darwin Australia and on the 13 February this year I bought a shiney new 32gb 3gs. I was stoked with it and loved the new toy. On the 1st of March the backlight stopped, and a few days I took it to the store to be repaired. Then 10 (yes ten) weeks later I get a call telling me that it was water damaged and the repair is $300.
Well I am both annoyed and flabbergasted as the phone has never been near water?!? I got my phone back (unrepaired) and sure enough the docking port has a pink tinge but the headphone port is white.
I work at the local public hospital and I ran around and looked at 5 3GS iphones I could find (that are working) and ALL 5 have the pink indicator in the bottom port, and white headphone port. While I cannot vouch for the history of these 5 "samples" I think that is a bit rich, and that I can see a case forming.
A bit of background, Darwin has just come out of the "Wet" (monsoon season for the last 4 Months) I imagine that all the phones that have been inside then outside (my glasses fog EVERY time I go outside) then all phones are going to be affected.
As I see it there are 2 issues: 1 I didnt get the phone wet. period! and secondly If I get a large proportion with an indicator failure and the phones function for a year, the indicator is flawed as a detector.
Anyone else from a tropical location got a water indicated phone? (and pretty confident the phone wasnt immersed?)
I am a very disappointed IPhone user that will go back to nokia :-(
Regards
Brett