Original iPhone warranties about to expire

Well, I am now 3 days out of warranty and suddenly I get an unresponsive screen (the SMS spacebar issue). Wonderful. What are the odds I take it into the Genius bar and they don't notice that little detail? :/

I bought my iPhone in September and ordered AppleCare with it. One of the external speakers stopped working and I've been toying with the idea of waiting until July 11 to take the iPhone in and ask for a 3G replacement. Do you think they'll honor it or will insist on replacing my 2G iPhone with another 2G iPhone?

Take your pick folks. My receipt says the warranty expires the 27th. The applecare pitch says within a year - June 29th. Apple's serial-number warranty lookup says I have till July 2nd.

When does it expire? Who the hell knows!

Thank you TUAW & Dave Caolo. As a direct result of this post, I took my iPhone in to the Apple Store to finally get some answers on why it was not connecting to Wifi, and why it thought my Apple Bluetooth dock was a non-approved iPhone device.

Walked in with problems and a scratched, nearly 1 year old iPhone, walked out with a brand new refurbished iPhone!

TUAW - thanks for this reminder! Timely and valuable.

I'm actually going to grab AppleCare for my original day iPhone for four reasons:

1) keeping original phone longer than I intended
2) resale value
3) gift protection
4) battery

Details on each of those reasons and the logic behind them on my blog if you're interested: http://thedigitaldive.net/blog/?p=62

With my iDay iPhone always in my pocket or charging on my MBP, always loved and cared for and in a case, I've had five (yep, 5) different iPhones. All hardware issues, including the Home button going bad and the bottom third of the screen going 'deaf'.



I love my iPhone, and all it lets me do, but damn!

My Newtons were rock-solid, and with me at least as much of the time. I'm really torn on the AppleCare extension. I'm planning on handing this to one of the kids and moving to either the 3G or the one after that, with the videocamera in the front, like I really want...

"This":http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?nplm=MB135LL/A appears to be the link to the AppleCare plan for iPhone. Coverage is only extended 1 year. The link in the article might lead one to think it's extended for two years.

"(with another year of warranty)."

Ha. You have a vivid imagination. Better check into this between now and 6/29 so you can acutally buy AppleCare.

Wait a minute. I just thought of something...

They stopped producing the old iPhone completely right? So what happens when they don't have enough old gen iPhone to replace your broken one with? Will they upgrade you to the new 3G iPhone?

I mean granted that might take a while to happen, but think about it...

I've asked this before, to no avail, and I'll ask it again. If I bought an iPhone around late august, and the phone is quite distinctly broken (An entire row of dead touchscreen area), I have an entire year from date of purchase to get it replaced. If I wait until a few weeks after the 3G is released, and have them replace my old iphone, would they have like some large supply of old refurbs to hand out for that? OR by some lucky chance would they just up me to the 3G? Any Ideas?