Independent warranty provider SquareTrade has published the results of a study looking at digital camera reliability, based on two year failure rates for some 60,000 digital cameras covered by the company's care plans. Overall, SquareTrade predicts that 5.9% of cameras will fail within the first year, with 2.4% of those failures attributed to accidental damage. A further 4.8% of cameras are said to fail within the second year -- a lower rate of both malfunctions and accidents than in year one. Projections extrapolated from the first two years suggest that some 15.6% of cameras will fail to survive the first three...(read more)
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