iBricked

The lower half of the touchscreen on my iPhone suddenly stopped working tonight. As in, took it out of my pocket, put it in the dock, went to grab it and unlock it later and… WHAT THE HELL? The part of the screen where you slide to unlock can’t be slid.

Appointment tomorrow to get a loaner, apparently this is a pretty common problem.

UPDATE: After 30 minutes at the Apple store, I walked out with a brand new iPhone. The Mac Genius dude said that this is the primary manufacturing defect he’s seen, and that the touchpad tends to fail in big horizontal bands. Pretty painless overall.