First not everyone with an issue posts threads on this board. There could have been 21,912 returned phones that were bent OOTB yet only 2 are members or decided to join to share the info. I am not saying that number is accurate in anyway, just making a point that this board does represent-either way-the true story of the issue. There also could be a larger number of people who did not notice a slight bend OOTB than we are aware of. Most on these boards suffer varying degrees of OCD, and again, are unlike the average Joe, or house wive who buys an iPhone. I believe though, from deduction, and working with similar metals, that 70-80% are bent inadvertently by the user. Not abused, not jumped on, not a 300 pound man in boys medium skinny jeans doing a suplex of the top rope while the phone is in his back pocket. The design of this phone lends itself to be more easily bent that probably any other cell phone to date. I think 15% are just abused and the last 5% are OOTB with some bend noticed immediately or later, or never.
How very scientific. I believe 99.343% were bent by Pro Wrestlers suplexing the phone from the top rope... I base that on, well, um, because I say so???
Some have damage OTB. I agree and accept that. It is NOT a "problem" it is called "mass manufacturing". I get that everyone wants to think that because they spent money on something that it has to be flawless, but that just isn't reality.
And let's say there were 1000 confirmed, videotaped, verified cases of phones coming out of the box bent. Out of what, millions???
Even on the "multiple" threads across "multiple" fanboy sites we have literally a handful of OTB bent phones (and even THOSE could still be hoaxes). Even if we give them 100% credibility, there is STILL no reason to believe the "problem" is anything but an anomoly from production.
You can't just ignore the millions of users becuase they aren't OCD enough or because they don't run to a fanboard if they think there's a "scuff" on their phone. Those people represent the "normals" and they also are generally perfectly happy with their iP5's, despite the horrible injustices of "scuffgate", "mapgate", and the bigfoot-like "bend-gate".
On an unrelated note: don't sit on your phone...
On an even more unrelated note: things break if you break them.
I know it seems like common sense... but here we are...
If you can't imagine that in making 15 million thin aluminum bodies that some might be produced with damage from the factory coupled with the poor QC that has been going on then your perception is dimmer than I had interpreted.
