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Apple Invites Reporters Into Testing Lab, Details iPhone 6 Plus Durability Tests

I'm just surprised that Apple even commented, let alone this. They're usually silent on issues.
 
Possibility

Given that there are different grades of aluminum alloy is it possible the supplier tried to pull a fast one trying to pass off back plates with a lower grade of aluminum alloy to pad their profits?
 
cfedu said:
The video is 100% true, The iPhone 6+ bends easier then the other 6 phones that he tested. If that correlates to the bent phones being reported is a different story. Have a drop test with 10 phones vs the LG flex. Will the results be false, untrue or misleading? A phone display cracking from a Fall is user error but would not make the drop test untrue.
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*** Fail is strong on MR this week.
 
jca24 said:
Ok, let me explain. The phone will not bend on its own. It takes pressure and force to bend anything, rubber, glass, wood, metal whatever. If someone did have the phone in their pocket and enough pressure was put on it to bend the phone the person with the phone in their pocket would feel it and stop it, or would they? Maybe they were stoned, drunk or had their head up their ace like a lot of people do today. Only the person with the phone in their pocket would know if they were smart enough to not put pressure on the phone.

IT IS THE PHONE OWNERS FAULT!! Not the fault of Apple!!

Everyone wanted bigger, lighter thinner and they got it. Now put on your big boy pants and take care of your phone!
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Apple wanted lighter and thinner not the consumers and look at what happened !!!!
 
SchneiderMan said:
Biased. A review is mostly a personal opinion on a product. The reviewer simply likes the iPhone better, and I'd agree with him myself. Who wants a freakin' stylus embedded inside a smartphone? The iPhone 6 Plus feels so much nicer to use in comparison. The software feels like it was built for a larger screened device (reachability) unlike the somewhat thicker Note 3.
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Apparently the several millions of people who own the Note 3 and are upgrading to the Note 4:rolleyes:
 
doelcm82 said:
I'm a consumer, and I want thinner and lighter. I'm not sure what you are, but your personal opinions don't speak for "the consumers".
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Sound like you just wanted to talk, show me where people were complaining about how thick the 5,4 models were.
 
cfedu said:
If apple does not want another bend Boy, I would suggest they stop making phones that can be bent by hand. I'm not saying that bendgate is real, they could have all been bent by samsung to create this. We will need more evidence before we can definitely have an answer.

But the fact is, the iphone 6+ is easier to bend by hand then the other phones that he tested.

What if Android manufactures create a display that will not crack during the famous drop tests we see all the time. Would you treat dropboy the same way.

IF apple has the only phone that cracks during a drop test it might be a vaild reason to get one phone over another. Obviously a cracked display from a drop is user error 100%. But if Samsung can engineer a display that does not, its a bonus. I bet if the iPone 6+ had the durability of the LG flex, you would be trashing all the other phones that could not withstand a drop test.
Does an iPhone bend by itself, no they do not. The user is responsible 100%, but if engineering can reduce the stupidity of the users I see no reason not too. A note 4 does not bend like an iPhone and might be a better buy for someone who is rough and prone to user error. For this reason I see no reason to shitt on bendboy. The only reason for someone to hate the guy is if they are a nutcase apple sheep apologist.
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Basing your buying decision on a viral video is not always the best for consumers. Doing a single test, not scientifically accurate is a crapshoot at best. While it might have interesting results, I would take them with a grain of salt.
 
Moto G said:
*** Fail is strong on MR this week.
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There is a german site that tested the 6+ and a note 3 same results. HE DID NOT TEST these ones. Are they also making it up? It does not matter who does the test for the results to be accurate.

2 Separate test with the same results, the iPhone was significantly for damaged.

You don't need to cry you know. The iPhone 6 plus display will break if its dropped on its face more times then it does not. An LG flex will not. It just means that the LG flex is engineered to be more resistance to having its display break.

The bigger this gets the more you fail.
 
linuxcooldude said:
Basing your buying decision on a viral video is not always the best for consumers. Doing a single test, not scientifically accurate is a crapshoot at best. While it might have interesting results, I would take them with a grain of salt.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DcUASffHU

Here is another one.

You do have point though. I would base my decision on just looking at the phone. It looks like it will bend to me. If I really wanted and could justify buying a $1000 iPhone 6 +, I would not put it in my pocket and would use a case. Thats the problem with bend gate, people should not be surprised that its bends in a pocket, nor that it bends by hand(with lots of force). What blows my mind is that people don't know that.

For some people putting a phone in tight jeans is there only option because of style or lifestyle. Would you recommend an iPhone 6+ to them?
 
capuzino said:
According to reality this news won't be shared as wildly as the original story about the bending issue.

And what it means? After few years there will still be people laughing their arses off because they never got to know the real numbers in this case.
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I appreciate every year a new crisis has emerged for the iPhone. The "yellow screen" problems of the first couple launches were boring. At least people are getting more creative.
 
Mr Bigs said:
Apparently the several millions of people who own the Note 3 and are upgrading to the Note 4:rolleyes:
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I have a Note 1. It doesn't bend and I won't upgrade unless it breaks or becomes annoyingly slow, which is not the case since I installed a programmed-obsolescence-proof custom firmware.

The Note 4 is the first barely relevant update since Note 1: the pen will be updated to a newer Wacom tech.
 
The men who are concerned about their iphone 6+ bending in their pocket, should perhaps think about investing in a murse or european carry all.
 
Shin3r said:
I am so amazed at the level of ignorance in this thread. So some of you moan about how Apples testing thousands of phones with jigs and real world test aren't good enough because well, you say so. But one guy who bent his phone somehow under normal use, but doesn't know how he did it, proceeds to put pressure at the buckle point and is shaking and squeezing the blood supply out of his fingertips to further the damage is all you need? I don't need to be an apple apologist to see the stupidity in that line of thinking.

As cultofmac already reported, there is a history of many different phones that have bent and most are due to user error. Period. Some are better than others and I absolutely agree iphone is not at the top but this is pure FUD.
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Not just this thread. This site in general!
 
Piggie said:
You have a problem with him?

He did zero wrong.

He simply showed how the iPhone 6+ bent more than other phones.

That is good for consumers.

Does not matter how he bent it as he tried to bend them all in the same manner, which tells you as a consumer far more than Apple saying we decided it was fine on our test machine.
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Oh really? Where are the "other phone tests"? Where is the legitimate testing where you would compare differing, exact, pressure amounts, along comparable parts of the phone.

I suspect some other phones would literally crack or shatter if put under the exact same amount of pressure. There are machines to do all this. Apple even has them.

I am pretty sure if I was insane I could create enough force to damage most any phone with my hands.

A real test would be a force machine putting different psi levels on several points on multiple devices at the same % of the device length. And you would actually need unique devices for each test or earlier tests could weaken the structural integrity of later tests, which is something that could be tested separately.

The reality is we don't know what this guy did to "prep" the iPhone for his "test." We have no idea and he has no foundation of credibility.
 
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