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The INQUIRER: The idea is to make you laugh as well as cry
Iphone screen problems may worsen
Dead zones may become more common, says analyst
Friday, 10 August 2007, 17:41
AN ANALYST today sent out a research note that rocked Planet Iphone today by suggesting that problems with the
device's screen could become more widespread.
A tiny minority of users has claimed that Iphones have developed dead areas where touch input does not work on part of the screen.
But the source of the new brouhaha is London-based analyst Richard Windsor of Nomura International.
In his note, Windsor told clients that Apple bought rights to the screen technology by a Finnish firm that also saw the problem where usage sometimes led to dead areas over time.
This should be very interesting to track. There is always the chance that Apple's bleeding-edge design tactics will lead to reliability problems, but the stakes here are very high indeed. ยต
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When I realized my phone was dying and unresponsive to my touch I was mad. Then when I read all about the problem and how the issue had been known about by the Finnish developers possibly prior to the launch - I was furious! But, the next day when I brought the phone into the genius bar at the mac store I was given a new one immediately and my love for all things Apple restored. My only concern is that this will happen again in a few months, as it seemed from the info out there I read about this that it was an inherent flaw in the technology of the touch screen. As long as they keep fisting over new phones Apple might have a new niche in the cell phone market...the lifetime phone!

yea i got my ipod touch on christmas , i only had it for a few days and now the bottom part of the touch screen doesnt respond anymore. this is a serious issue! 

luckaly i can exchange it.
I live in Spain where the iphone has not reached us yet and as a consiquence i purchased an unlocked phone. The phone has worked perfect upto today when i droped it. Since then the bottom half of the screen is unresponsive to touch. I would like to know if i took the phone to an apple store if they would replace it for free.
In spite of it being a known defect and announced by the Finnish developers before the launch, now that the 1st generation phones are experience=ing this problem APPLE IS NOT REPLACING THE PHONES and the cost of repair if the cost of the new 3G phone! Sounds like a scam to me with a $400 phone that fails after one year, especially tight after the warranty expires! If anyone knows of any known fixes or is able to remedy this proble please let me know.