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Ever have your iPhone run over by a Humvee or two? For Memorial Day, iFixit, the repair site for electronic gadgets, is sharing some of the best of repair stories they've collected from U.S. military personnel. For example:
Major pain:
“I work communications in the military, I had a buddy who had an iPhone that he put on top of a Humvee. Then the truck pulled off, the phone fell off the truck and was ran over by another one. The phone was found and returned to the owner. It was still functional but needed new glass, a screen, and a home button.”
See the rest of the repairs on iFixit.
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