PC World posted a news story that SquareTrade said that 26% of Apple's smartphone suffer a breakdown within the first two years

"Twenty-six percent is actually pretty good," said Vince Tseng, vice president of marketing at SquareTrade. "And it's encouraging that the failure rates have decreased."

According to SquareTrade, which examined more than 25,000 customer warranty claims, the iPhone 3GS is more reliable, and apparently sturdier too, than its predecessors, the iPhone 3G that first went on sale in July 2008 and the original model, which debuted in 2007.

  More Than 25 Percent of iPhones Break in Just Two Years