Apple Denies Design Flaw in Cracked iPhone Screen Incidents

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 31, 2009 - 7:58am.

London - Apple (NASD: AAPL) has denied recent reports of iPhone screens spontaneously cracking, saying instead the incidents were due to "external force" being applied to break the devices' screens, the BBC reported.

Consumer watchdogs in Europe and the European Commission have launched investigations into the cracked screen incidents, as well as other reports of iPhones exploding due to overheated batteries.

"The iPhones with broken glass that we have analyzed to date show that in all cases, the glass cracked due to an external force that was applied to the iPhone," Apple said in a statement.

"To date, there are no confirmed battery-overheating incidents for iPhone 3GS, and the number of reports we are investigating is in the single digits," the company added.

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