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Synopsis: SquareTrade analyzed iPhone accidents for over 20,000 iPhone 4s covered by SquareTrade Care Plans and found a 82% increase in reported broken screens compared to the iPhone 3gs.

Highlights of the study include:

• iPhone 4 owners reported 82% more damaged screens in the first 4 months compared to iPhone 3gs owners.
• Overall, the reported accident rate for iPhone 4s was 68% higher than for the iPhone 3gs.
• An estimated 15.5% of iPhone 4 owners will have an accident within a year of buying their phone.

Full report available as a PDF.

The iPhone 4 has twice as much glass as the iPhone 3GS. So glass breaking incidents occurring just less than twice as often seems about right to me. Probably better than I would have guessed. But then Apple Customers do seem so much more clumsy and common to me, since the global phenomenon of the iDevice.

The moral of this story is that if you want to be able to throw your phone at your girlfriend, buy a Nokia.