Apple announced a battery replacement plan for the iPhone mobile phones that passed the warranty period. It looks like you will need to pay $79 to install a new battery and a $6.95 fee for handling and shipping. Apart the extremely high price of $85.95 there are bigger problems you could face if your battery dies (warranty or not). First of all you need to backup all your profiles, photos, songs, contacts, email account settings, text messages and other stuff on iTunes, because they will be all wiped out.

Second of all, you need to leave your mobile phone with Apple for 3 working days which is not something that we can afford, right? I am waiting for a lot of mushroom companies to pop up, to replace iPhone batteries so that the price could go down and the downtime could lower.

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