Those are all tech bloggers! lol And face it, why are there thousands and thousands of people WITHOUT bent phones? Maybe some people take better care of their stuff than others do.
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6 Plus Users, Are You Still Worried About Bending?
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Those are all tech bloggers! lol And face it, why are there thousands and thousands of people WITHOUT bent phones? Maybe some people take better care of their stuff than others do.
Yep, I totally made it up.
One side of the phone looked like a boomerang resulting in the front panel separating from the rest of the phone to the point where you could see the inside of it. I have no idea what actually caused (although I do keep my phone in my back pocket) it but I would love to be making it up.So sorry, the one talking crap is you. You might not like it, I sure as hell didn't like it. But a hoax it ain't.
Most techbloggers I follow haven't had a problem with bending iPhones 6 nor 6 Plus. People like:
TLD
iMore
the crew at Macbreak Weekly (Leo Laporte etc etc)
Chris Pirillo
DetroitBorg
Cult of Mac
Geekanoids
Metagamers
Larry Greenberg
And so on.....
IM NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE PHONE BENDING in normal use like in my jeans and whatnot, ill leave that to the full retards but a main concern is when its dropped i wonder how it'll react then. i have a 5 and that thing is a tank, i ve dropped several times and nothing. seems like the 6+ might be more susceptible to damage when its dropped compared to previous models. i dunno
10 million sold in first few days 9 people complain what is the point of concern? This is how wannabe editors and news writers make money. It is a real joke
For those that are that worried about this overblown controversy for media outlets to cash in on clickfest, here's a solution. if it bends, buy this and move along.
http://elitedaily.com/humor/pre-bent-case-iphone-6/779580/
http://elitedaily.com/humor/pre-bent-case-iphone-6/779580/
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Using a Upsized Iphone.
My daily work requires me to squat, kneel and sit on the floor repeatedly throughout the day. (I repair machines for a living and they are heavy and bolted onto the floor)
My phone is in my back pocket coz it is easier for me to do those actions which i have mentioned above.
Last i checked today on a glass table, it is still flat and straight as the day i bought it....in any case, as long as i do not abuse it, i am pretty sure if and when it bends, Apple will honour their warranty
My daily work requires me to squat, kneel and sit on the floor repeatedly throughout the day. (I repair machines for a living and they are heavy and bolted onto the floor)
My phone is in my back pocket coz it is easier for me to do those actions which i have mentioned above.
Last i checked today on a glass table, it is still flat and straight as the day i bought it....in any case, as long as i do not abuse it, i am pretty sure if and when it bends, Apple will honour their warranty
iPad Air 2 is going to be thinner than last yr's Air...a word of advice; DONT sit on it
What? Do you mean it too will bend? What the....
A case does more than just keeping it from bending. So if it falls on the ground and gets dented, it would be a design flaw since it should be able to withstand that. Or if the glass breaks, it is a design flaw.
It is an electronic device, which will dent, bend, and break if not used appropriate and abused. I agree, I wish it was thicker. This "must be the thinnest phone" is kind of stupid since the last time I checked, not many of us want it to be the thinnest. We want it to be have better battery which means a bit more thickness to it. I would have been happy if they kept it the same thickness as the 5/5S. Use the extra space for battery. But what do I know.
As for the case, there are many reasons. Naked, it does not have good grip to it. if you put it in some gym shorts or something it will slide right out. So many of us put a case on it so that it isn't slipping and sliding all over the place. Some of us are more clumsy than others. So they put a case on it to protect from bangs, drops, scratches, etc... Sometimes there are just accidents which are unavoidable and unforseeable, and a case may protect you from having your precious idevice broken or damaged.
To each their own. I switch back and forth between a Spigen Thin Fit smooth black case (which is pretty much just a thin shell that protects against scratches to the sides and back) for a bit more grip and a thicker case such as the Spigen Slim Armor, or the SUPCASE Unicorn Beetle PRO Series Full-body Rugged Hybrid Protective Cover with Built-in Screen Protector and holster.
In the end, am I worried about "bending" my iP6+, no because I take care of my devices and do not toss them around or stick them in my back pocket and sit on them or wear skinny jeans and let the phone start digging into my hips and applying significant pressure to it.
9 People?
So all the youtube vids, facebook pics, users on these forums, instagram pics, tech bloggers, their bent iphones are ALL fake?
does that add up to 10 THOUSAND?
thought not...
because you need 10 THOUSAND to make up 1% of sold iPhones that have been bent, and that 1% would still be a ridiculously low figure.
You're off by a bit. It would take 100,000 bent phones to make up 1% of LAUNCH WEEKEND phones.
Let's assume the actual rate is 100 per week for an initial week batch of 15 million phones. Roughly 10x the quoted rate by apple. If, of those initial 15 million phones, 100 bend EVERY WEEK, then 5,200 phones will be bent (through normal means, not trying to bend it like the YouTubers). That adds up to a whopping 0.035% of all those initial phones. less than 4 hundredths of one percent. Meanwhile, 3-5% of owners will shatter their screen in the same time frame...meaning you're 100 times more likely to shatter your screen than bend your phone, and that's at 10x the quoted rate by Apple.
Note that over the course of the 120-150 million iPhones Apple will sell this year, that possibly up to 50,000 of them will be bent. That's a huge pool of anecdotal evidence that still adds up to a measly 0.035%. This estimate, which is likely very high, still means that 99.965% of iPhone users will have a straight phone after this year. Though only 95% of them will likely have intact screens.
It is not that they are fake, it is that the problem in a non issue. Metal bends and for the most part stays bent unless you bend it back. How is this a surprise to any of you.
It takes around 65 to 70 lbs of force to bend it, so just avoid that. If a phone that will bend when you apply that much force is not for you then just return it.
I need to just stay off of MR for a while.
for our own sanity we all need to stay away...let the fandroids have their "gate-party" on here and we can all come back in a couple of months when the whole story dies quiet and the fandroids are too busy playing with the gap-feature in their phones....
It is a non issue?
Say that to the, now increasing substantially everyday, people who paid **** loads for iphone's and now have found theirs bent (i bought the plus 128gb, which is not cheap, more expensive than all other phones).
If the problem is this bad now, and even on THIS forum people are reporting bent iphone's.
This is clearly an issue.
Why is everyone just denying it. Apple need to come to a solution before it gets out of hand like xbox RROD, although Microsoft dealt with it well its still not good.
6 Plus Users, Are You Still Worried About Bending?
percentage wise is insignificant....
the sad guy that runs the www.oneofthenine.com and scours daily the internet and social media for all types of bent phones including demo phones at Apple Stores has struggled to get 45 cases so far.
in the bigger picture thats 0,00045% of sold phones.
don't think Apple would even consider it a problem unless you had 10% of sold phones with bend problems....
thats a whooping 1M phones with bend problems....
I know in these closed environments like this forum it might appear that there's loads of cases of bent phones if you get one thread per bent phone......but in reality it accounts to nothing!
percentage wise is insignificant....
the sad guy that runs the www.oneofthenine.com and scours daily the internet and social media for all types of bent phones including demo phones at Apple Stores has struggled to get 45 cases so far.
in the bigger picture thats 0,00045% of sold phones.
don't think Apple would even consider it a problem unless you had 10% of sold phones with bend problems....
thats a whooping 1M phones with bend problems....
I know in these closed environments like this forum it might appear that there's loads of cases of bent phones if you get one thread per bent phone......but in reality it accounts to nothing!
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