Another Bent iPhone

This thread is virtually useless without pics.

 

1. Your join date of today might suggest you're a troll.
2. If you're not a troll, riding your bike with your phone in your pocket would certainly exert a lot of force on your phone if you do any serious riding or are a skinny-jeans-wearing hipster.
3. More importantly though, who does this?

 

yes because objects bend by themselves..

go look at Newton;s laws. it should help you a bit

 

Confused.... He puts his iphone under a couch ? Why not on top of a table ? Nutty in my opinion. This thread is going no where fast. This guy just wants us to agree it was a battery expanding issue so he can get another phone that he bent himself.

One can bend a phone, specially the iphone if one puts it into his front pocket and rides a bike. Leg bends upward while biking, increasing the tension on the pants, and what ever is in the pocket, which is probably what happened and now he wants a free phone...

 

Here we go again. OP the iPhone 5 is more susceptible to bending and staying bent due to the nature of its design. It needs to be treated more carefully then previous models.

A lot of people here will call you a troll or something for bringing this up. I have a friend with a bent 5 but it still works fine and he's still using it.

 

iBananaPhone.

 

It's Apple... you know... "Magical & Revolutionary"

 

See, Apple does innovate. They were the first to really have flexible displays

 

Possibly OP inadvertently allowed Uri Geller to handle his phone.

 

That explains it right there. Biking a lot with the phone in your pockets.
A $600 phone is not an indestructible device.
Its very thin and with many many sensitive electronic components.
Obviously it doesn't happen on its own without external stress.
Pay the $229 replacement fee and take it as a lesson learned.

Its up to you to figure that out.
Or keep paying for new phones.

 

Yes, but there's always going to be a weakness in the phone at a certain place that will reach its breaking or bending point if you apply enough pressure to it. Its just a cellphone. The iphone 4 and iphone 5 are different as you can see.
The back piece of the iphone 4 wasn't metal and the whole design is different, thinner, longer etc...
Metal will bend, glass will break/shatter.

 

I guess according to your experiment it does bend if you put enough force while on a bike and in tight pockets.
Glad you realize it's everyone else's fault but yours...

 

I understand about not wanting to lay it on a table.... I simply put it on something so it's not on the table top.... your solution of putting it under the couch seems a bit weird and I don't even know how that became a better option than simply elevating the phone above table top level.

As far as the screen/bending issue. 100% user caused and it's NOT susceptible to bending with every day use..... know how I know this? I am witness to no less than 5 iphone 5's in every day life and not one has bent. That tells me that those that do bend are subjected to extraordinary forces and not simply "every day" use. Take care of your $700 phone and it will take care of you.

"I don't think that word means what you think it means"
Again, I have biked, climbed, moved items, ect ect and have never bent my phone. I use a bumper nothing more. That is every day use..... doing something that causes it to bend is NOT every day use.

 

What does the price of an electronic device have to do with its resistance to abuse? Is it advertised as "tough", "waterproof", or "mil-spec"?

It's just a consumer grade phone. People have been breaking cell phones as long as they have been around. Think the old 3lb bricks could stand a fall on concrete? Nope. I was selling phones starting in the late 80s and I've seen it all.

Take some responsibility and move on with your life.

 

Actually I was thinking just the same as you, but then, on second thoughts, one shouldn't forget the iPhone's a mobile phone and hence by definition destined to be your every day, all the time companion.

And if any electronical devices should be more resistant to such damages than others, it's mobile phones, right?

But of course you shouldn't confuse price with the level of resistance. I remember basically playing football with my mobile phone back in 2005 and that one had cost me about 30 euros.

 

I bike with my phone too but it's in a hip pouch AND because of sweat, it's placed on the compartment AWAY from my body.

Anywhoo u complaining about $600 should do more?

My $25,000 Honda I find out, has a plastic bumper, PLASTIC! OMG, I think if I punch it hard enough I can put my fist through it. When I got it scratched, they wanted over $1,200 to repair it! So complaining that money doesn't buy enough? take a number.

 

I think you sat on it...