Saturday, November 20, 2010

Apple change the iPhone 4 screw to prevent the replacement of the cover !


In this period we have often talked about iPhone 4 whites made the cover of a device by changing the color black and the fact that many speculate on these devices sold at a price. Apple has already begun to hamper this market by removing all ads of white iPhone 4 from eBay, but now things worse by replacing the screws of the iPhone 4 with other more difficult to manage.



The screws inserted on the latest iPhone 4 stocks are Torx pentagonal (picture above), popular because they can not loosen easily and require special tools and more difficult to find. Indeed, in the first four advertisements iPhone before the launch in July, were just below the screws, but at the last minute Apple decided not to use them.

Now, however, precisely to limit the black market iPhone 4 white Torx screws back. But there's more: it seems that the Genius Bar employees have been instructed to replace the standard screws of iPhones 4 brought in for service, with these type of Torx.

In short, Apple does not want to feed a market that can deceive many people unprepared.

Below these are the screws "normal":

[Via]