{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-30T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/07\/30\/iphone-3gs-are-showing-cracks\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:09:05","slug":"iphone-3gs-are-showing-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/2008\/07\/30\/iphone-3gs-are-showing-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 3Gs are cracking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/att.macrumors.com\/attachment.php?attachmentid=125196&amp;stc=1&amp;thumb=1&amp;d=1216424033\" alt=\"iPhone 3G with crack\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 3G is a big deal for me. I was getting prepped to switch over from Verizon to Cingular just for the new, white-backed 16GB model. However, news of the devices cracking are popping up everywhere. Not a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings up my primary caveat with the iPhone 3G: why replace the classic metal backing for plastic? Sure, the plastic is high density, less likely to dent than the previous model, but along with plastic comes a whole other set of problems&#8211;with cracking being a significant one. Certainly, the original iPhone made a stride forward, replacing the previous high-scratchable chrome backing for a brushed aluminum. So why take a step backwards? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 3G is a big deal for me. I was getting prepped to switch over from Verizon to Cingular just for the new, white-backed 16GB model. However, news of the devices cracking are popping up everywhere. Not a good sign. Which brings up my primary caveat with the iPhone 3G: why replace the classic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ahshieh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}