This test speaks very, very poorly for Consumer Reports and what they are suppose to represent.
We don’t want a test at the strongest point of the phone. We want to know how they hold up at the very weakest areas where a phone will actually bend during normal use.
And one other thing, as long as phone makers replace bent phone in the first 2 years of normal use then this issue simply goes away. I think Consumer Reports will have to conduct a real world test and right away.
The information that they failed to bring into account is the specific weak point on the iPhone 6 Plus – this is where almost everyone’s iPhone has bent. This test, however, measures the overall structural integrity, and completely ignores the previously identified weak point. Though, to be honest, I have no idea why they didn’t address the weak point, considering they referenced the one main video, and that guy verbally comments on it in his video. I don’t know how you can reference a video, choose to challenge the observations in that video, then completely ignore the actual data in favor of your own simplified, controlled test, and sincerely proclaim that your findings are a valid counter argument.
Again, this is a nice test to see how much pressure it takes to bend phones with equally distributed force, right in the center of each device … but, that wasn’t the original issue. This resolves very little with this problem. Thank you, Consumer Reports, for essentially wasting your time and money on nothing.
