Cracked phone screens are common, survey finds - WGNO New Orleans

by: Marlo Lacen

Posted: Oct 13, 2022 / 07:30 PM CDT

Updated: Oct 13, 2022 / 07:04 PM CDT

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Most radical tin subordinate to the fearfulness of dropping their mobile telephone and becoming the arrogant proprietor of an unsightly cracked surface that volition travel with a costly repair tab.

Secure Data Recovery surveyed 2,200 American astir their mobile devices and immoderate of the bumps and breaks they endure daily.

Survey results uncover that 44% of Americans driblet their telephone astatine slightest erstwhile a week. Bathrooms airs a peculiar menace to telephone safety, arsenic 23% of respondents accidental that is wherever their phones often onshore erstwhile dropped.

Sadly, 31% of respondents person breached a telephone and wholly mislaid each the information saved to the device.

Texas and Oklahoma residents are much apt to regenerate their phones aft surface damage.

Louisiana readers are apt viewing this communicative connected a instrumentality with a cracked surface – 28% of survey respondents said their telephone was cracked portion taking the survey. That’s a spot higher than the nationalist average, which is 18%.

Of pistillate respondents, 53% accidental they driblet their phones astatine slightest erstwhile a week versus 32% of men.

The astir predominant telephone mishaps:

• cracked telephone surface – 75%
• phone dropped successful the toilet – 23%
• broken telephone with a telephone lawsuit – 45%

The survey besides recovered that 1 successful 10 respondents does not usage a telephone lawsuit astatine all.