Our phones last less?

[Gulanowski]

Alot of people at college, at least at mine, seem to have smartphones of one type or another, usually blackberrys or those motorola q's, but occassionally I'll come across someone with a smartphone like our's. I hear the same thing from everyone though, they tend to have more problems and last less time than the conventional flip phones or flat face phones that we had when we were kids before we stepped up to nicer phones. Is this generally accepted or are college students more abusive to their phones, lol.

[hibby50]

im 13 and i had my apache replaced 8 times! i only had my mogul replaced once though... and had my pro replaced once for manufacturing defects... i do think they r flimsy because before my apache i had never broken a phone

[psiphi]

The Touch screens and Joysticks are big problems on PDAs and smartphones that the older phones never had to deal with... I drop my phone all the time when I'm not using an earpiece... That said, I've had my Apache replaced once in 3 years (about a year ago). I've never had to replace any of my PDAs, but I've not kept any this long before... I've replaced phones before, but usually after about 3 years.