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Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
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Every year an iPhone gets released, people exaggerate a minor issue & dig for flaws. Remember when everyone complained that apple was totally insane for making a phone with a glass front and back? And remember all the complaints and pics of cracked screens? Now everyone says the iPhone 4 was the last great apple design. I guess when you're number one everyone starts gunning for you. I think the iPhone 6 and 6+ are a work of art and I can't wait till verizon ships mine on the 3rd of October. If you don't like the new iPhone 6...get a plastic phone. #
I think people are doing a disservice to Apple by believing that they don't know what's appropriate when doing aluminum unibody designs. There are two sides to the "thin" factor. On the one hand, it does have a lower deformation threshold vs. a thicker phone. On the other hand, if that threshold is still significantly higher than what would likely occur during normal use, then it makes sense as a design decision. Thinner means that it's easier to fit in a pocket, and that's because "thin" LOWERS the potential pressure from resting in the pocket. The thicker the object, the tighter the pocket...and the higher the pressure.
As someone who carried an iPhone 5 in my pocket without a case for two years, I can unequivocally declare that to be false.
The chances of an iPhone 5 bending without the use of a vice is nil.
Not only that, but it looks fantastic despite the two years of daily use - it reminds me of an old school Leica camera.
It’s a lot of pain 10 million phones later. Even those who have not yet had theirs bend will begin to question things if Apple admits to this. (Except the avid Antennagate is not real posters here of course).
Hopefully they’ll learn from it and make things more substantial and abandon this approach to make things unnecessarily wafer thin.
All in he’s saying it’s a design fail.
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What a joke. The increase in pocket pressure from a phone that is 1mm thicker is significantly less than the increase in strength it would gain to cancel it out. I don’t reckon you read, (or even thought it), before you posted that.
Another "user" who created their account today. Let me guess, you're a die hard fan that has had the iPhone since the original, and been a Mac user since the Lisa, and have been lurking on this site for 10 years, and just decided you had to create an account right now...
It makes no difference, a few lame people think that a low post count means that you don't have a say. Lame.
Anybody think that this whole fiasco will just increase sales? The end of the day, the phone is now emphasized to be indestructible.
I don't doubt your post, and I'm willing to give JDookie the benefit of the doubt and believe his story as well. But both are anecdotal reports that don't by themselves say much about the propensity of the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus to deform in pants pockets. The real question is whether the iPhone is unacceptably susceptible to deformation when carried that way. As I've said in other posts, this is very difficult to test scientifically, despite the best efforts of Apple and Consumer Reports - there are so many variables, including body shape and - ahem - firmness, tightness and thickness of the pants material, phone orientation in the pocket, and so on.
My guess is that while this is a problem for some iPhone 6/6 Plus owners, most will be just fine if they carry their devices prudently.
Compared to you who has only been a member 384 hours.
You made a logical fallacy argument. Join date (in and of itself) has nothing to do with whether or not someone is being accurate and truthful in his or her post.
Compared to you who has only been a member 384 hours.
You made a logical fallacy argument. Join date (in and of itself) has nothing to do with whether or not someone is being accurate and truthful in his or her post.
touche haha.
Yeah like... He's such a Samsung troll right? Damn Samsung and it's army of trolls.
Compared to you who has only been a member 384 hours.
You made a logical fallacy argument. Join date (in and of itself) has nothing to do with whether or not someone is being accurate and truthful in his or her post.
I've actually been a member for a long time saab9573 but unfortunately a combination of forgetting my password and not having access to the email I had on that account made me create a new account.
But anyway it's not me who's coming on here with amazing bending stories having only been a member for 7hrs.
Smells fishy to me!
Actually, I joined less than an hour ago. I've been a fan of this site ever since I bought my first iPhone, which was a 4 (and I've owned every model thereafter) and until now I just read the articles on whatever was going on with Apple. In this instance I thought I would add to the conversation since I have first hand knowledge of it happening to two phones and just because I'm "new" you want to discount my claims and call me a troll. Believe whatever you want, or not, doesn't really matter to me, but just because someone is new doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth. The bottom line here is Apple made these phones too weak, and that's that.
Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
Two out of three are bent!!!
Farcical come on!
If you wanna come one here tell us porkies then go easy and start with 1 bent phone not 2....
You decided to go for he kill?
Tell u what photo of the 3 phones with a paper on the side with your username...
Either that or get lost!!
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Your roommate dropped his phone on a drunken Friday night...
Blame the bending!!
Funny that in all these bending tests the screen is always intact.
Next troll......
Two out of three are bent!!!
Farcical come on!
If you wanna come one here tell us porkies then go easy and start with 1 bent phone not 2....
You decided to go for he kill?
Tell u what photo of the 3 phones with a paper on the side with your username...
Either that or get lost!!
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Your roommate dropped his phone on a drunken Friday night...
Blame the bending!!
Funny that in all these bending tests the screen is always intact.
Next troll......
How on earth could you walk away with that conclusion, when they clearly showed the HTC could sustain less force? Did you even watch it?
No, that's really not that. It's pretty simple for you in this case though. Post pictures of your 3 phones, 2 of which are bent.
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