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For me it's been less the battery and eventually the screen itself. As the phone gets older, getting replacement screens or glass ends up more and more difficu
by simcop2387 8y ago
For me it's been less the battery and eventually the screen itself. As the phone gets older, getting replacement screens or glass ends up more and more difficult and expensive to the point where it can cost almost 1/3 to 1/2 the cost of a completely new phone to fix my old one. At that point it's a harder decision to make to fix the old one when a single drop after that could mean that I've now spent as much to get a new phone (2x replacements) to fix the old one.
- heyoni 8y agoReally? It’s like $80 to fix an iPhone 8 screen or %10 of the total price.
- Marsymars 8y ago$150 from Apple. Brand new iPhone 8 is $600. You can presumably get a non-OEM replacement for less, but you can also get a used iPhone 8 with original glass for less than $600.
- Alterlife 8y ago> used iPhone 8 with original glass Except you would have no way to verify if the glass is original until you take it to Apple and they refuse to service it.
- ndnxhs 8y agoSomeone I know dropped a new Samsung phone and it was $600 to fix.
- voltagex_ 8y agoYep, Samsung list the prices: https://www.samsung.com/au/support/screen-replacements/ https://www.samsung.com/au/support/screen-replacements/ Unfortunately I then called Samsung support and was told because I hadn't bought the "Australian model". Nevermind that there's only one glass/screen/digitiser combo worldwide for the S8+.
- fraudsyndrome 8y ago$250 in Australia
- voltagex_ 8y agoFor the part only or the part and labour?
- fraudsyndrome 8y agoSorry for the late reply - part and labour from the official Apple store. Although prices can be as low as $30 for non-genuine ones. Obviously screen will be easier to crack if you don't take care of it but damn it's way cheaper.
- simcop2387 8y agoYea it's going to vary by the phone, iPhone 8 was very common and is still relatively new. In my case it was a Nexus 6p with an actual LCD problem so I needed the full assembly (couldn't find just the LCD). Lowest I could find was $250 to do it myself, and if I took it somewhere, they wanted $400 for the parts and labor, not entirely unreasonable from what I could tell since they also gave a 60 day warranty on the parts. I ended up getting a new phone for $799 instead.