Apple to iPhone 5 owners: aluminium gets scratched. Deal with it

Please post a little more on this. There haven't been nearly enough articles from Mobot about the iPhone's scratching.

If you smashed the back of the iPhone 4 or 4s, it was a very quick and cheap fix: to the point that nearly anyone could have done it. As the iPhone 5 comes apart screen first like the 3g and 3gs, it's going to be a lot more hassle to fix a scratched back plate as you have to take the whole phone apart. Also means higher labour costs to replace. :/ From a practicality point of view, the 4 and 4s have a much better design, although I think the iPhone 5 looks and feels better.

Going to have to invest into a very good case.

lol yep.
Or buy a white one, it won't be nearly as noticeable on it

I don't see what all the fuss is about, iPod's have been prone to scratching for the last 10 years so this is nothing new, just something for people to fixate on and moan about.

Buy a f'ing case for it! Its like condoms, you don't wanna but know you should

Here's what you do: sandpaper the back to a silver shiny smooth aluminum.

And void your warranty? for polishing the back?

A picture of some stupid retard who went into an Apple store, grabbed his key, and scuffed the backplate of a display iPhone. Criminal law anyone? deliberate destruction of other's property? Or people doesn't even know laws exists anymore?
And that retard dared to take picture of his vandalism, posted somewhere apparently, and ends up in gazillions of sensationalist blogs like these, titled "iPhone arrives scuffed and scratched" with that misleading picture.

Worthless rubbish post. Who pays you?
Do you even do any research beforehand you start uttering crap out of your head?

As for Phil's answer, it's just another moronic answer anyone can get off Wikipedia if they search 'Aluminium'. So what's the **** deal? Is it Phil's attitude that **** you off? so you want to sue him for giving really basic answer?
Get a freaking life.
P.S. I think Apple MUST do something about the scuff issue, and other issues that's coming with iPhone 5. I am NOT saying Apple is doing right by any means. But all this sensationalist **** overflowing the web, is just ridiculous.

Richard,
lighten up... the photos are bull! We have been in detail over it in a few other threads. It's obviously photoshopped - especially the one where the glass Apple logo on the back has the same white chalkline scratch as the aluminium part... It's pretty standard, UNFORTUNATELY, to use pics for 'illustrative' purposes. Be it in news, blog articles or adverts.

I have also questiones why so few of the many outraged folks on countless forums post photo evidence. If I spent £700-ish on something that crap, I'd sure as h*ll show the world.

Proof for the overblown school of thought is also that suddenly hardly anyone claims the out-of-the-box nonsense. I never believed that for a sec.

However, mon frere: no need for your extremely crass tone. Martin has a comparatively soft tone is this article. He is mostly focussed on Schiller's comment. It's a lot less sensationalist
than the majority of similar articles imho.

Hey, I had a couple of HD2 devices. The back scratches, no matter how great the phone is otherwise, and no matter how carefully I treated them. Gorilla Glass, too, can take scratch damage.

Every launch of a major device brings hype with it - both booh and yay extremes.

Interesting point though about 'legal consequences'! Claiming publicly your devices came damaged out of a sealed box? Guess hard to prove either way, though...

I have worked in retail, and one thing's 'for sure' - customers are people, and people lie. Ridiculously so!

Or just have used the "Liquidmetal" that some rumours said they would..
So far seem to be licensing it just so no one else can use it.

Who gave Edward Scissor-Hands an iPhone, eh? I told him this would happen!!