More than one in four Apple iPhones break or fail within two years, a company that provides after-sale warranties said today.

SquareTrade Inc., which sells extended warranties for iPhones, said that 26% of Apple's smartphones suffer breakdowns -- or simply breakage -- within the first two years. But that's an improvement over the iPhone's past reliability rating.

"Twenty-six percent is actually pretty good," said Vince Tseng, vice president of marketing at SquareTrade. "And it's encouraging that the failure rates have decreased."

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