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Speaker 1: Apple's new iPhones are the strongest yet, but they will

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Speaker 1: still shatter on impact.

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Speaker 2: What's going on, I'm rich Dmaro. This is rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Well, every year we can look forward to the new iPhones,

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Speaker 1: and then we can look forward to all the torture

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Speaker 1: tests that various companies do, and Square Trade is one

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Speaker 1: of them. They just did all of their tests with

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Speaker 1: their robots and they find that the new iPhones are

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Speaker 1: Apple's strongest yet. They're even beer resistant, but they will

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Speaker 1: still shatter on impact.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look at some of their findings.

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Speaker 1: So for starters, Square Trade says, overall, they did find

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Speaker 1: the iPhone tens to be stronger than the iPhone ten

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Speaker 1: and the iPhone tens Max even stronger. The company assigns

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Speaker 1: a breakability score from zero to one hundred. The higher

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Speaker 1: the number, the more at risk the phone is for breakage.

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Speaker 1: The iPhone tens Max scored a respectable seventy out of

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Speaker 1: one hundred, placing it at a medium risk, while the

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Speaker 1: iPhone ten S scored an eighty six out of one hundred,

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Speaker 1: which is a high risk.

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Speaker 2: This is kind of so prizing because you would think.

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Speaker 1: The bigger phone would actually be more at risk for

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Speaker 1: breakage because it just has more surface area and more mass.

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Speaker 2: But that's not the case.

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Speaker 1: The iPhone ten S scored the worst in face down drops,

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Speaker 1: back down drops, and bendability, which also surprises me because

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Speaker 1: you would think that a small phone wouldn't bend and

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Speaker 1: a big phone would. We all remember ben Gate, right.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, all this research is to place a

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Speaker 1: little doubt in your mind and to sell you insurance

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Speaker 1: on your phone, which I know a lot of people

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Speaker 1: do buy. And I actually do like Square Trade because

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Speaker 1: it's a better value than what you can get from

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Speaker 1: the carriers. It's about nine dollars a month versus up

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Speaker 1: to seventeen dollars a month from the big guys like

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Speaker 1: Verizon AT and T T Mobile. Keep in mind you

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Speaker 1: will have to pay deductible every time you make a claim,

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Speaker 1: which is anywhere from twenty five dollars to one hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty nine dollars, and I will compare it against

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Speaker 1: what Apple Care offers a little bit later on in

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Speaker 1: the podcast. So Square Trade uses robots to test the

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Speaker 1: devices in a bunch of different ways. Drops, slides, tumbles, dunks,

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Speaker 1: basically all the things you hope to never do with

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Speaker 1: your phone, but it happens. My dad's iPhone recently dropped

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Speaker 1: out of his pocket. Then he proceeded to run it

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Speaker 1: over with his car, and yeah, he needed a new

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Speaker 1: one immediately.

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Speaker 2: It happens.

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Speaker 1: And please back up your devices because you don't want

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Speaker 1: to lose your stuff. If you happen to be not

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Speaker 1: backing up and you think you'll do it tomorrow, do

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Speaker 1: it today. One of the new tests they ran was

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Speaker 1: a beer test. Square Trade filled a dunk tank with

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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight cans of paps blue ribbon,

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Speaker 1: then they dropped the new iPhones inside.

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Speaker 2: Now, the new iPhones come with a.

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Speaker 1: More durable water resistance rating of IP sixty eight, which

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Speaker 1: means they can be in almost five feet of water

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Speaker 1: and other liquids for thirty minutes. Square Trade said the

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Speaker 1: phones function normally after this test, which is something that

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Speaker 1: Apple said they would do. They pointed out during their

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Speaker 1: knot on stage that they did test them personally with

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Speaker 1: a bunch of different random liquids, including coffee and beer.

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Speaker 1: Last year's devices had an IP sixty seven rating, which

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Speaker 1: is slightly less durable. Now, if you do get your

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Speaker 1: phone wet, Apple does recommend that you dry it out

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Speaker 1: for at least five hours. Do not plug it in

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Speaker 1: for five hours to charge it after you get it wet.

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Speaker 2: You can, however, use wireless charging during this time.

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Speaker 1: Now, the all last design of the ten s means

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Speaker 1: that the face down drop will probably be your worst enemy.

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Speaker 1: On the iPhone Tens, the front screen shattered on the

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Speaker 1: first drop. The iPhone Tens Max cracked on the first drop,

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Speaker 1: but Square Trade says it was still usable. For this reason,

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Speaker 1: I always recommend a case that has a lip over

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Speaker 1: the front, basically a case that comes just over the

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Speaker 1: edges of the front of the screen, because that will help.

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Speaker 2: You in a face down drop.

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Speaker 1: Now, on the side drop test, Square Trade says that

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Speaker 1: the steel frame did help reduce damage, but on the

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Speaker 1: backdrop test, both phones shattered on the first drop, and

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Speaker 1: in the case of the iPhone Tens, the back of

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Speaker 1: the device actually came apart from the frame.

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Speaker 2: And finally, when it comes to repairability, they had a master.

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Speaker 1: Technician look at what it takes to pop these phones

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Speaker 1: apart and do some repairs. They found that there is

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Speaker 1: much more adhesive inside the phones, which helps with the

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Speaker 1: water resistant.

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Speaker 2: But if you've ever taken a part of gadget.

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Speaker 1: It's this little sticky adhesive that can prove kind of tricky.

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Speaker 1: The iPhone ten S features a single battery, unlike the

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Speaker 1: iPhone ten and the tens Max. Square Trade says both

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Speaker 1: phones will cost more to repair than before. Just how

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Speaker 1: much they're expecting about three hundred and ninety nine dollars

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Speaker 1: to replace the front screen and about five hundred ninety

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Speaker 1: nine dollars to replace a shattered backscreen. Again, that's without

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Speaker 1: insurance if you paid out a pocket and that can

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Speaker 1: definitely vary based on where you bring it. So of

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Speaker 1: course this all sounds super scary, and a good case

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Speaker 1: can mitigate many of these concerns. I personally like the

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Speaker 1: offerings from Tech twenty one. The Spec Presidio Grip is

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Speaker 1: my all time favorite case, and the outer box is

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Speaker 1: great if you're super clumsy. That's kind of like a

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Speaker 1: little tank on your device. But we all know that

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Speaker 1: the best case can't protect you from everything, including drops

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Speaker 1: that are really bad.

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Speaker 2: Theft and loss.

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Speaker 1: Now, most people I know with an iPhone do consider

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Speaker 1: Apple Care a given. This year they added theft and

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Speaker 1: loss into the mix, which is kind of comforting for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: If you lose your phone.

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Speaker 1: However, you are going to pay for the privilege of

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Speaker 1: having this protection. Apple Care Plus for the new iPhones

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Speaker 1: costs fifteen dollars a month for twenty four months, or

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Speaker 1: three hundred dollars if.

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Speaker 2: You out right.

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Speaker 1: This gives you two years of protection. Deductibles are twenty

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Speaker 1: nine dollars for screen damage, ninety nine dollars for other repairs,

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Speaker 1: and two hundred and sixty nine dollars if you lose

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Speaker 1: your phone or if it's stolen.

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Speaker 2: So do the math.

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Speaker 1: You pay three hundred dollars for the Apple Care Plus

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Speaker 1: plus two sixty nine. You're talking basically five hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty nine dollars, which is pretty much half the price

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Speaker 1: of a new phone if you lose it or if

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Speaker 1: it's stolen. Keep in mind, you can always go with

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Speaker 1: the standard Apple Care Plus, which is nine to ninety

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Speaker 1: nine a month for twenty four months, or if you

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Speaker 1: want to pay in full, you can pay two hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: That will not give you the loss and theft protection. Though.

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Speaker 1: The big difference is that you can save money monthly

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Speaker 1: with Square Trade because remember, it costs about nine dollars

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Speaker 1: a month and you're gonna get the same repairs, but

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Speaker 1: the big difference is Square Trade does not cover against

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Speaker 1: theft or loss, but they will repair or replace your

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Speaker 1: phone if you bring it to them in pretty much

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Speaker 1: any condition, in any other circumstance. As long as you

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Speaker 1: have it, they will replace it or repair it under

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Speaker 1: their plan. I've talked to them about this and they

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Speaker 1: are pretty good. But like I said, they do not

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Speaker 1: do anything when it comes to loss or theft.

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Speaker 2: So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Square Trade's latest tests on the brand new iPhone ten

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Speaker 1: and ten S Max. You can find pictures of what

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Speaker 1: these phones look like after their little torture tests on

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Speaker 1: my website. Just go to richon tech dot tv or

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Speaker 1: check the show notes.

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Speaker 2: I'm Rich Jimiro. Thanks so much for listening. I'll talk

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Speaker 2: to you real soon