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  Credit : Twitter user @tarasis Apple’s joy of selling five million pieces of iPhone 5 in 3 days was soon eclipsed by ‘scuffgate‘  and other issues, prominent among them was a delay in availability, which  is because the device is hard to assemble according to a WSJ reports which quotes an ‘declined to be named’ Foxconn employee. “The iPhone 5 is the most difficult [...]

iPhone 5’s fragile and scratch prone surface was one of the major gripe of the users right since the device reached customers – earning it the moniker ‘scuffgate’, it was primarily caused  due to Apple’s use of lightweight anodized aluminum for the iPhone 5’s uni-body chassis, resulting in some units to show signs of wear out-of-the-box. To control the number of [...]