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Apple: Bending in iPhone 6 Plus From Normal Use 'Extremely Rare', Only 9 Customers Have Complained

kobalap said:
I am told by Apple apologists that putting the phone in your pocket (front pocket/back pocket/any pocket) does not constitute normal use. I am also told that if I want to keep my phone in my pocket (as opposed to a man purse, I suppose), I need to get a smaller phone. Of course, there is that other choice of choosing a phablet from another vendor. You know, the ones that can be kept in pockets.
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I carry my iPhone 6+ in my pocket every day. I have no bending. I don't put it in my back pocket and sit on it, but I haven't ever done that with any phone. I also don't wear skinny jeans or any jeans that with the phone in the pocket it would create pressure to the extent that one might be concerned. Yes, there is a weak spot in the 6+. Is it weak enough that it will bend without what one would consider excessive pressure? Probably not. Use your iPhone as you wish to use it. In all likelihood you will experience no issues. If this were truly as widespread as the media would have you believe, we would be seeing thousands of reports, not a handful.
 
BaldiMac said:
That's fine, but you still made something up to spin your point. Again, Apple never said the problem didn't exist. They acknowledged the problem and provided a solution in the form of free cases. Their spin was to downplay it's significance by equating it to signal attenuation in other devices even though the problem with the iPhone's antenna was different.
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I had a original iPhone 4 for years without a case and never had a problem with making or getting a call and on once i could lower the bars but i had to hold it in both hands to do it. This was another thing that people who loved other phones were trying to make up crap. And if i remember that the bars were more of a software programming issue not a cell tower reception problem. By the why in am inside a complete metal building with my current Verizon iPhone in inside a concrete walled room and i still get two bars. And my other IT worker who have Android phones and Microsoft phones can not get or place calls no bars. :) hmm why don't people talk about that right now :)
 
I think this will cause lots of people to break their phones from various manufacturers while testing whether they bend or not.

Maybe this is a ploy cooked up by the secret association of smartphone manufacturers to cause a mass upgrade.

:)
 
kobalap said:
I am told by Apple apologists that putting the phone in your pocket (front pocket/back pocket/any pocket) does not constitute normal use. I am also told that if I want to keep my phone in my pocket (as opposed to a man purse, I suppose), I need to get a smaller phone. Of course, there is that other choice of choosing a phablet from another vendor. You know, the ones that can be kept in pockets.
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Your basic argument is you need apple apologists to say one thing or the other - and that's what will decide for you which phone you want to buy.

Ridiculous.

The iPhone 6/Plus has one of the fastest single threaded performance of any phone - that's a great reason to buy it. The App store, another one. If you like iOS.

I never considered for a moment what someone random person I didn't know thought about putting it in my pocket. LOL
 
powertoold said:
This sounds like the Tesla Model S fires.

1-2 Model S fires = millions of news articles while 400,000 normal car fires a year = 10 news articles.
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Uh, actually, the Model S catches fire at a much higher rate compared to other NEW cars, but the sample size is too small.

If you look up the statistics rather than making them up, most car fires occur due to:

intentional/arson
being caught in another fire (garage/building fire)
cigarettes/accidental fire
catching fire in an accident spread from another vehicle (in other words, a 5 car pileup where one car catches fire then spreads to others).

The subset of cars that catch fire after running over something in the road is much smaller, then finding the overlap with the set of new cars on the road, compared to the total number of new cars on the road, and the Tesla fires are not to be dismissed. But also, due to the few (not 1, I believe it was 3?), it's not necessarily a statistically meaningful sample, but it also can't be ignored because of the design of the car and the relatively few on the road.

But thanks for playing...
 
iBug2 said:
I think this will cause lots of people to break their phones from various manufacturers while testing whether they bend or not.

Maybe this is a ploy cooked up by the secret association of smartphone manufacturers to cause a mass upgrade.

:)
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And they all will buy iPhones, 6 Plus's.:apple:

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Irohzen said:
Honestly, I'm not sure why I ever bothered posting here.
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I'm sorry....
 
Should have been thicker...

Making the iPhone 6 1mm thinner than the iPhone 5 cut the potential bending strength of the aluminum case by 30%. If the iPhone 6 were 1.5 mm thicker than it is, the aluminum would be 2x as strong against bending. Now, other parts of the phone also contribute to strength, including the internals, the screen/glass, how everything is held together, etc., but the part that doesn't "bounce back" is the metal, and the Ive push for thinness does significantly increase the risk of plastic deformation of the metal...

Plus at 1.5 mm thicker, the camera wouldn't stick out, there would have been room for the optical stabilizer in the 6, the battery could have 25-50% more capacity, the metal around the buttons would be much stronger, etc.
 
iBug2 said:
Welcome to the internet.
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I don't know why, but your statement made me think of this.
But hey, people these days will believe anything when it comes to their phones right? ;)
 
NMBob said:
Wait a minute...

"9 people have reported the problem"

and then

'bending under normal use is "extremely rare."'

What? How would they know it's "extremely rare"? The things have only been under normal use for days, and if they are talking about during the testing period "extremely rare" sounds like quite a few were bent given the testing size.
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What? No it dosent sound like quite a few were bent during testing. Unless done on purpose to stress test them. You just making stuff up without facts.
 
Washington Post article http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...the-iphone-6-plus-unless-youre-a-bodybuilder/

Excerpt
SquareTrade sought out an employee wearing skinny jeans -- in this case, Pourmeh Sarram, who is 5' 10" and helpfully told The Post that he has a 31-inch waist. Sarram wedged the phone in his jeans pockets, then had him sit in an office chair for 30 minutes with the phone in his front jeans pocket -- mirroring a situation that a user described in a widely-circulated MacRumors post.

Sarram said this was "very uncomfortable." SquareTrade also asked Sarram to do 10 squats with the phone in his pocket. But none of these situations managed to bend the phone in any way.

But at least for SquareTrade, whose whole business is assessing the risk of phone damage, bending is not something it thinks will happen often.
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Yeah, and how many have NOT yet complained ? The phone's been in the hands of people for only 6 days.
These statistics, even though I can understand they are the best ones Apple can come up with, are wrong.
 
You people who say we shouldn't put our phones in our pockets - are you those dorks who walk around with those phone holsters on your belt?
 
BaldiMac said:
That's fine, but you still made something up to spin your point. Again, Apple never said the problem didn't exist.
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Again, depends on which problem you are talking about. I talk about the iPhone 4 antenna design and Apple stated during the Antennagate that they were happy with the design, which can only be interpreted as them not considering the reception problems to be due to the design of the antenna (or trying to push this narrative).

BaldiMac said:
They acknowledged the problem and provided a solution in the form of free cases. Their spin was to downplay it's significance by equating it to signal attenuation in other devices even though the problem with the iPhone's antenna was different.
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I didn't find a statement of Apple acknowledging that the original iPhone 4 antenna design had issues, even after they released the re-designed antenna which fixed the original design's issues.

If you know about such a statement from Apple I'm actually interested.
 
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