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iPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days
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So far, two occurrences of a bent 6+ in this thread, both front pocket. It really does seem like something to be following.
Have to say thanks to the OP for posting about it. I will certainly be keeping an eye out for whether a pattern establishes or not. My 6+ hasn't yet arrived...
Have to say thanks to the OP for posting about it. I will certainly be keeping an eye out for whether a pattern establishes or not. My 6+ hasn't yet arrived...
Putting a phone in your front pocket is gross negligence? I've had a Note 3 and One Plus One in my front pocket for long periods of time. never had a issue.
This is disturbing news.
Not 6+ users, that's for sure.
I do, what's the point of Bluetooth enabled cars. If I am driving 5 hours to the beach, I take it out. But if I am driving around town I don't.
Squeezing something into a smaller container and then applying hundred of pounds of pressure (which is what happens when pants pull on the ends of the phone) is most certainly gross negligence.
No different that someone trying to fit into a smaller case and breaking it in the process. If you wanted a phone for the pocket, get a smaller phone. Don't blame Apple.
Cmon be realistic. Unless you are a woman who carries a purse where else are you going to place a phone but in your pocket?
That's where I've been keeping my phone since.... The first phone I ever had. That said I don't wear skinny jeans so I don't see how this damage is really possible
Apple's engineering should ensure that a *mobile* phone has sufficient casing strength to resist bending under normal usage conditions. Putting them into front and side pockets is normal for most folk.
Exactly. Outside of work when I leave home I carry wallet keys phone. Where are you to put a phone other than your pocket
People with modern vehicles with bluetooth and nav who have no need for the phone to be anywhere else?
The Apple apologists are out in force today. Good god!
The vast majority of male users will carry their phone in their front pocket. Has this been an issue with similar sized Android phones? My guess is no.
I think apple pushed the thinness too far. This is why I never buy on the first day. Will definitely keep an eye on this.....
The vast majority of male users will carry their phone in their front pocket. Has this been an issue with similar sized Android phones? My guess is no.
I think apple pushed the thinness too far. This is why I never buy on the first day. Will definitely keep an eye on this.....
Apple offers 3 sizes of iPhone at this point.
That's 3 options to accommodate your lifestyle, which would include how you carry the device.
Apple sold you a perfectly functioning device, but it doesn't seem like you the product that best suits your real world needs. The end result is YOU damaged your phone.
That's 3 options to accommodate your lifestyle, which would include how you carry the device.
Apple sold you a perfectly functioning device, but it doesn't seem like you the product that best suits your real world needs. The end result is YOU damaged your phone.
Why? Because someone has an issue?
If that's the case, you should give up your drivers license because I've seen people get into car accidents.
Chortle. A perfectly functioning device it may be, but fit for purpose? The latter may turn out differently. Two cases of bent iPhones is not an epidemic, but it's very early days.
One handed use can be debated, as for putting it in a pocket you are correct. I would never put a 5, 6, or 6plus in my pocket without a reinforcing case. Every 5/5s not used in a case that i have seen is bend. I would never take the risk.
I also find it hard to believe that Apple would or should replace a bent phone.
Most likely, it will be the same design. Was the case with the 4 and 4s, 5 and 5s.
Didn't we have this exact thread with the iphone 5s?
If your pants are tight, and you put the phone in there, and the phone is being contorted this way and that....well it might happen then. I'm sorry, but its kind of obvious isn't it? It is made of metal, and metal is not denim, or even plastic. Metal doesn't have the elasticity that other materials have.
It just like buying a pair of pants that are too tight. Over time...you get a rip in the seam.
Its not a "oh you can't set down with a phone in your pocket" or "you can't drive with it in your pocket".
Yes you can, but if you put it in your pocket, and it is obviously tight and hampering your movement, that same pressure your feeling is also being applied to the phone.
If you can't get looser pants (everyone has their own style, I wear pants that are in the middle, I guess)....than get apple care + or a smaller phone.
100% sure it was okay before as a friend wanted to see it via Facetime and I showed him the phone from the side how thin it is. I would have noticed that it was already bent.
To all the guys with the skinny jeans theory: Again, I was wearing suit pants the whole day. In the car, I was able to move the phone easily in the pocket (to the side of my thighs so that it won't fall out of the pocket.
I have always put my phones in the front pocket, drove in cars and sat all day at work. So do all of my friends and colleagues.
I witnessed a return of a bent iPhone 5S in an Apple Store and it was replaced without any hassle.
I really hope my 6 Plus was an exception, otherwise Apple has a serious problem.
Epidemic of a lack of common sense is a certainty.
I wouldn't buy a phone if I didn't think it could accommodate my common daily actions.
Modern smartphones aren't meant to be used as benches or surfboards.
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