If you have ever had the handset slip away from your hand while using your iPhone you know the feeling. Your hands try to catch it and your heart skips a beat, and you watch in horror as your iPhone bounces on the floor. After you pick the phone up you see a crack in the face and everyone starts offering their condolences. Now there are a couple of possibilities to consider. The first is that only the exterior glass has been broken in which case the screen will still display the normal iPhone interface. This means that the liquid crystal display is still intact, and the replacement exterior glass is less expensive to replace than is the LCD. However, if the screen has gone blank, the LCD has been ruptured, which means that a more expensive repair is necessary or you need to replace the iPhone. When it is necessary to replace your iPhone's LCD, it is necessary to replace the exterior glass. However, this doesn't mean that the handset should be thrown away. Although replacing an iPhone LCD is a relatively expensive fix, replacing an iPhone LCD is a fairly routine procedure. Replacement of an iPhone is substantially less expensive than replacing the iPhone. Replacing and iPhone LCD is a fairly complicated procedure and one in which most iPhone users will want to have done by an iPhone repair person who is a professional. There are iPhone users who have a high level of technical competency are most likely to be able to perform the replacement themselves, which means that these users will need only purchase the replacement LCD. The cost of the LCD is by far the most expensive part of the repair as the labor cost associated with having the new LCD installed is normally not too expensive. This makes having a professional do the job usually the best the best option for all users except for those who have the expertise in taking apart and reassembling electronics, computers, and/or iPhones specifically. An LCD that is broken is certainly no reason to replace an iPhone that functions otherwise. Replacing an iPhone LCD is becoming an increasingly routinely performed repair, which means that the cost to have it replaced is gradually coming down and there are more iPhone replacement parts available on the market every day. Therefore, don't throw your iPhone away just because it has a broken LCD. Remember that nearly every part on an iPhone can be replaced, which means that usually an injured iPhone can be repaired for a fraction of the cost to replace it.
