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Spontaneous separation of new iPhone 5
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So what kind of back is the iPhone supposed to have? If it was plastic you would say it's cheap, it was glass you said it was easily breakable, its aluminum you say it's bendable. What do you want, diamonds?
Please also provide pics of the back of the casing, including close ups of the bend point. Looks like this would appear to be just at the bottom of the Apple logo.
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Although nearly impossible to scratch, diamonds are brittle. They would shatter easier than glass.
well, there are plenty of materials that don''t shatter like glass or bend like aluminum.. duhh
I love the iphone 5 but it feels fragile and I don't know how to carry it properly.. I f'n hate cases
You ever get wood wet and see it curl or expand after a couple of days? My guess is that something similar is happening to an internal component, maybe a metallic one. I am not saying water or moisture is causing it, but that there is some underlying chemical or physical mechanism wherein something was not properly cured or set and it is now warping.
At least that fits with the OP's description of it happening in his hands. I don't know how soft or bendable the metal is on the iphone and i don't want to test it on mine.
name all the materials it can be made out of that doesn't interfere with reception, doesn't shatter, doesn't bend, doesn't scratch, doesn't scuff.
You're right. And that thing was built like a tank. A tank with glass windows, that is.
Alright then, what the F's up with people bending their iPhones lately? This's crazy.
For the love of God, please tell me you really don't spell accidental that way usually.
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Tbh, i carry my naked iPhone 4s exclusively in my back pocket and sit on it all the time.
i frankly wondered if the iPh 5 would be prone to structural failure of the perimeter frame adjacent to the volume buttons due to being sat on. Bending stiffness of the iPh 5 has to be way down due to changing the perimeter and inner chassis from steel to alu and also substituting alu for glass in the rear panel.
For these reasons, as well as sensitivity to scratching, I decided not to buy an iPhone 5 despite the fact it's beautiful and fast (I've been a first day purchaser of my last 2 iOS products.)
I don't buy into the theory that residual or thermal stresses are causing the chassis to spontaneously distort; if this is the case, Or if Apple didn't or mis specified, or their sub suppliers have omitted or botched, an annealing operation, Apple better find the incompetent materials, process, and mechanical engineers on this project and fire the lot of them.
Cue steel-reinforced iphone5 bumper offer from Apple in 1,2,3...As the short term solution to butt-bend-gate... Looks like Bob Mansfield is really going to have to earn his 2M$/mo now!
i frankly wondered if the iPh 5 would be prone to structural failure of the perimeter frame adjacent to the volume buttons due to being sat on. Bending stiffness of the iPh 5 has to be way down due to changing the perimeter and inner chassis from steel to alu and also substituting alu for glass in the rear panel.
For these reasons, as well as sensitivity to scratching, I decided not to buy an iPhone 5 despite the fact it's beautiful and fast (I've been a first day purchaser of my last 2 iOS products.)
I don't buy into the theory that residual or thermal stresses are causing the chassis to spontaneously distort; if this is the case, Or if Apple didn't or mis specified, or their sub suppliers have omitted or botched, an annealing operation, Apple better find the incompetent materials, process, and mechanical engineers on this project and fire the lot of them.
Cue steel-reinforced iphone5 bumper offer from Apple in 1,2,3...As the short term solution to butt-bend-gate... Looks like Bob Mansfield is really going to have to earn his 2M$/mo now!
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