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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcKXvupYes4
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"Bendgate" Video Faked?
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At what point does your leg grab both ends of the phone and inflict force directly from the middle of your thigh into a 1 inch space on the back of the phone? How does bending a phone in half with your hands replicate that it bends in a pocket?
These videos are idiotic, give me an iPod and i'll rip it in half for you too. Hell, my 1st gen iPhone was eventually dented and bent to hell after years of use, and it still worked great.
He said "I applied barely any pressure at all, barely"... Ahahahahaa. There goes a thousand bucks.... People are crazy. Meanwhile, I just ordered two.
WOW, why are idiots doing this on purpose? Loaded much?!? Just have thousands of dollars laying around to burn? Oh wait, or do you have your hand in Samsung's pocket? Hmmmmm. Will someone send me a new Samsung Note 4 or a Galaxy S5 to see if I can destroy it with my bare hands? I bet anyone $1000 I can.
I thought that was funny too.... as his thumbs turned white
First red, then white, then his hands shook. Barely man, i'm telling you, i could bend it with my pinkies !!!!!1
If i was paid by samsung i'd bend a golden nugget for them, let alone a phone.
LMAO it takes a lot for someone to successfully be found guilty of libel. There are about five to seven different things the plaintiff needs to prove, one of them being a potential loss of money (uh 10 million iPhones sold) and another being that the statement is false (which it isn't, according to other videos/accounts/iPhone's own statement that they have received at least nine complaints).
Note that at the end of the video there are *TWO* boxes on the table, and he's again showing a phone that looks new and unbent.
It's called professional video production, you conspiracists. It's oftentimes non-linear, non-consecutive, and may take more props/takes than just one. The video is clearly edited, but bending is real. It's stupid to call it fake because of some time mismatch between two units one of which may be showing local time and the other not-setup-yet showing Cupertino time.
Send me your phone and I will bend it and upload a REAL video of YOUR iPhone to youtube!
It's called professional video production, you conspiracists. It's oftentimes non-linear, non-consecutive, and may take more props/takes than just one. The video is clearly edited, but bending is real. It's stupid to call it fake because of some time mismatch between two units one of which may be showing local time and the other not-setup-yet showing Cupertino time.
Send me your phone and I will bend it and upload a REAL video of YOUR iPhone to youtube!
I'll input my take what I think could have happened. I make Youtube videos about phones, cases and tablets. It is possible to start doing something at an earlier part in time, finish it at a later time and edit it all together.
I'm a small Youtuber and use Imovie. Even with Imovie you can edit two pieces of time together where you can almost not tell the difference. It takes some skill but not that much. I've edited videos with different times in a review and have made it look seamless, sometimes by mistake and sometimes on purpose, with some work. I usually try to not have the phone on so people can't tell.
This guy is a popular Youtuber and no doubt has better software than I do or just much more skilled. If I can do it, surely he can, if not better.
My wild guess is he bent it earlier and finished with his conclusion. He later maybe wanted to show the phone in more detail and how it looked after it was bent. He filmed the more detailed, better version then spliced it into the original video.
It can be done, but it would take someone with some experience. Right now I'm not sure I could do it that well, but I thinks it's possible.
I'm a small Youtuber and use Imovie. Even with Imovie you can edit two pieces of time together where you can almost not tell the difference. It takes some skill but not that much. I've edited videos with different times in a review and have made it look seamless, sometimes by mistake and sometimes on purpose, with some work. I usually try to not have the phone on so people can't tell.
This guy is a popular Youtuber and no doubt has better software than I do or just much more skilled. If I can do it, surely he can, if not better.
My wild guess is he bent it earlier and finished with his conclusion. He later maybe wanted to show the phone in more detail and how it looked after it was bent. He filmed the more detailed, better version then spliced it into the original video.
It can be done, but it would take someone with some experience. Right now I'm not sure I could do it that well, but I thinks it's possible.
I guess he recorded conclusion first, then tried to bend phone couple of times, and found the weakest point, bent the phone sucessfully, then edited video
Who says anything about being found guilty? You don't think this guy would fold like a cheap tent if Apple put a scare in him by contacting him? You don't think Apple would say something to youtube about this? One thing Apple knows how to do is defend itself and it's product. My guess is that this video will be gone within a week or two.
It was slightly bent when he started
Didn't he say the phone was slightly bent before he even started the whole bending video? I always suspected the phone was a defect from the beginning.
After watching the video, I went into an AT&T store and grabbed the iPhone 6 Plus they had on display. When no one was looking, I tried to bend it like he did. No way I could bend it to deform at all.
I think his was already defective.
Didn't he say the phone was slightly bent before he even started the whole bending video? I always suspected the phone was a defect from the beginning.
After watching the video, I went into an AT&T store and grabbed the iPhone 6 Plus they had on display. When no one was looking, I tried to bend it like he did. No way I could bend it to deform at all.
I think his was already defective.
I don't know if the video is fake or not but surely enough i started looking at my 6+ and i can see it already is bent a little bit. I have to put in on a flat surface to notice it but its already bent wtf!
And no i don't wear tight jeans and i have never tried to bent in on purpose.
And no i don't wear tight jeans and i have never tried to bent in on purpose.
This has been my quintessential issue with these "tests" from the very beginning. No controls, no measurement of the pressures being inflicted; just try as hard as you can to snap the phone in between your hands. What does that prove?
It's all clickbait and manufactured drama until someone actually demonstrates in a controlled test that this phone can bend under normal use in real world conditions.
I don't believe your phone is bent. Post a photo. I think what is making you think it is bent is the protruding camera causing the phone to ever so slightly rock when placed on a flat surface... Duh!
Editing cannot displace logic:
It was BENT BEFORE, then later it was NOT BENT.
If he used two phones that makes him a lair because in the video he says he's using his own phone and it was painful for him to experiment on his own phone.
If he bent the phone then bent it back so he could bend it again, then the video only proves that the more you bend your phone the easier it is to do.
It was BENT BEFORE, then later it was NOT BENT.
If he used two phones that makes him a lair because in the video he says he's using his own phone and it was painful for him to experiment on his own phone.
If he bent the phone then bent it back so he could bend it again, then the video only proves that the more you bend your phone the easier it is to do.
I swear I can see a freeze frame on the video right before he bends the iPhone. Whether that means the video is fake or not, I'll leave that up to other people to decide.
I noticed that also, that's what makes me think part of the demo may have been spliced in. Like I said, it possible.
What annoys me is I'm waiting on my phone and you got people like him purposely destroying it, for some stupid test.