Zee Media BureauThis sure is a piece of news for those butterfinger individuals who can't hold onto their smartphones and break them with almost every drop.
Come April and Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corporation will replace your damaged HTC phones within the guarantee period of 12 months free of charge and no questions asked.
This will applicable on the news HTC smartphones will go on sales from next month, according to reports.
Currently, the company offers change of broken screen, free of charge, within the warranty six months. And expanding this offer, the Taiwanese company is going all the way to replacing them with a whole new phone, starting April.
The company is taking this platform to distinguish itself from Apple, Samsung and other Android phones.
The replacement program, called Uh Oh Protection, will begin when the new phones go on sale next month, reports said.
In 2014, HTC failed to make it to the top five smartphone makers' list in the data released by IDC or Gartner.
First Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 22:40