I picked up a new iphone 5 and am amazed overall by the phone.
I have babied this phone, keeping it in a case and using a screen protector the entire time. I didn't really follow the roll-out closely at all, but for whatever reason, I knew that scratches were a potential problem with this phone (intuition? recollection of stories about scuffgate I barely paid attention to months ago?).
Sure enough, within a few days, I've discovered some scuffs around the lightning port. I am truly mystified by this. The port was used once to activate the phone, a second time to transfer some data from my previous phone, and once more to charge it. Before I charged it, I checked the port, just out of curiosity to inspect and appreciate the phone, and voila, scratches.
I can't fathom how such light use could cause scratches to the case. I used the usb port on my previous phone many hundreds of times, and the port and surrounding area show no scratches. One week and less than a handful of uses, and the iphone is scuffed noticeably.
I can exchange it at walmart if they have stock, but if they don't, I would have to go to an apple store. Will they exchange an iphone in this type of situation? It's possible the scratches were present initially, but I think it's much more likely that the phone suffered scratches as a result of completely normal lightning port use.
I have babied this phone, keeping it in a case and using a screen protector the entire time. I didn't really follow the roll-out closely at all, but for whatever reason, I knew that scratches were a potential problem with this phone (intuition? recollection of stories about scuffgate I barely paid attention to months ago?).
Sure enough, within a few days, I've discovered some scuffs around the lightning port. I am truly mystified by this. The port was used once to activate the phone, a second time to transfer some data from my previous phone, and once more to charge it. Before I charged it, I checked the port, just out of curiosity to inspect and appreciate the phone, and voila, scratches.
I can't fathom how such light use could cause scratches to the case. I used the usb port on my previous phone many hundreds of times, and the port and surrounding area show no scratches. One week and less than a handful of uses, and the iphone is scuffed noticeably.
I can exchange it at walmart if they have stock, but if they don't, I would have to go to an apple store. Will they exchange an iphone in this type of situation? It's possible the scratches were present initially, but I think it's much more likely that the phone suffered scratches as a result of completely normal lightning port use.