Hynek Hampl The new iPhone 5 has only been on sale for a few days and the first flaws have already appeared. Scratches appear on the body of the iPhone 5 in the black variant during use. Of course, the phone comes into contact with harder objects than the pocket and hand during normal use. Fine aluminum is therefore easily scratched and silver (aluminum) scratches appear on the originally beautiful body. Unfortunately, this is a problem that does not affect some owners, but practically all of them.
Is this something Apple should be looking into? Obviously not. According to Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president, scratches and scuffs are completely normal on the aluminum of the black iPhone 5. Alex, a 9to5mac reader, emailed Apple about the scratches and got a response. 9to5mac also confirmed that this is indeed an answer directly from Phil Schiller.
Alex,
any aluminum product can be scratched or scuffed with use, revealing the aluminum's natural color - silver. That's normal.
Phil
That's it, the black iPhone 5 is easily scratched. There are two ways to deal with this problem. The first option is protection from scratches using a case. The second is a complaint about the iPhone 5 and the subsequent choice of the white variant. The question is how this claim will stand up in the Czech Republic.
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Personally, I'm an Apple fan and so far I've been satisfied. However, putting lacquered aluminum on the back of the phone (for almost 20) is the height of stupidity. My one-year-old son would probably think that too.
My fandom and day job with Apple since 1990 has cooled a lot in the last two years…
that would probably occur to everyone. I don't know if they don't care or if they couldn't use some other material... it's a shame, because I was really looking forward to it. in the video, Ive describes it (of course) as awesome, perfect, I don't know how precisely made, with a touch of quality... so I expected that something like that wouldn't happen.
on the other hand, they probably did the same thing with the iPhone 4. Everyone probably thought that it would break right away. hard to say which is better. either easily breakable iPhone 4 or easily scratchable iPhone 5. probably the rainbow option is better.
who knows how people would react if they used plastic or something similar. they would probably be cursing again how apple has fallen. maybe something will always go wrong. ;)
They should also add black centrofix to it :-). He erases it and it's cool :-D.
There's still talk of a black iPhone 5, but I wonder how the white one fares? There is aluminum in a "natural" color and the scratches will not be so noticeable? Personally, I find the white iPhone5 sexier... Anyway, they stepped a little off with that color.
I wonder if even Steve would say it's normal.. :(
Remember the antenna problem. It was normal too. And Jobs said it…
I hope they will be normal when I go to claim it and they will watch it again under a lamp with a cloth and write down every scratch.
SW is worth an old bag and the materials used are also not what they used to be - In short, what made apple apple. I've been a rock for almost twenty years, but I've already started thinking about alternatives to apple. That's desperate.
I don't think Jobs would have ever released this product...
What about the fact that it gets scratched is annoying, the phone is meant to be used and not show off, the plastic also gets scratched, unfortunately I wouldn't expect that for a phone of this price range, unfortunately...
But what bothers me is that the iPhone 5 in the black version is SCRATCHED ALREADY FROM THE PRODUCTION!
I personally know several people who have iPhone 5 from abroad and by chance all the black ones are damaged... You think fine, I'll change it, but unfortunately even the newly unpacked ones are damaged... Again, you go over it and say fine, give me a white iPhone 5 and they will tell you that it doesn't work, that they don't change black for white...
He really thinks that iPhone 4s owners can be glad to have this particular device…
It looks like these are pieces from the first two weeks of production, probably revenge on the factory worker. I don't even have a scratch on my 64GB version bought last year from Vodafone...
1 iPhone was also made of aluminum, although it was not black, but it still scratched beautifully over time. And somehow I don't realize that it would bother people so much before.
Hi Phil, maybe this is normal in terms of material properties but not normal for a phone…
Think of the "white" iP4. Due to problems with poor quality material, Steve never put it into production, and we had to wait until the iPad 2 and 4S. Someone didn't think much of this, or rather didn't test it. A thing that simply wouldn't have happened before. Apple is becoming a "normal" company. Unfortunately. We should get used to it.