Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed

[Max(IT)]

Yet when you have video proof of those kids thumbs turning white with the force they were exerting and their hands shaking you declared the sky is falling.

You're just picking and choosing what you want believe.

I love it.

I just realize that. A little bit too late.
I'm not wasting more of my time with him.

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You cherry pick all information to support your agenda, at this point this is personal. Most exchange in this thread lately is about winning some debate, rather than finding the truth. It's about 10 people who keep this thread alive, nothing that is said here have any impact in the world what so ever..

You are absolutely right, and I discovered it a little bit too late.
I'm still waiting for the video of someone taking his personal iPhone, putting in his front pocket and bend it just by walking around.

 

[H2SO4]

Except there wasn't any "antenna gate" since millions, and I mean millions, of iPhone 4 are still working flawlessly TODAY....
The whole "antenna gate" was a factual digression about an issue affecting a few people.

But CR reports weren't biased, even then.
Btw that has nothing to do with this bend test, conducted under controlled situation in a lab.

My word. I’m flabbergasted that was the example you picked.
FLA. BBER. GAS. TED.
Do you have a 4? If so, can you please bridge just the antenna gaps without cupping the whole phone for me and report the results?

After you’ve done that let’s go back to what you said above shall we…….
You totally distorted Consumer Report conclusions about the test
Now I'm really wondering if you have your personal agenda....
Never seen a test so misinterpreted...

 

[Max(IT)]

I received my AT&T 6+ 64GB SG today and it is bent. Fresh out of the box.

It is bent upwards towards the screen, not away from it like in all of the demos online. It also has a slight twist in the body from top to bottom (top to home button). Visible in your hands and when placed flat on the table. The camera lens is not part of this un-flatness.

I'm... disappointed. I waited 17 days for this phone, paid $400+ tax and upgrade fees and it's bent. I didn't even get to bend it myself.

I'm gong to call AT&T and Apple (or online chat) and see what they say. Obviously, I'm holding on to it until they can replace it.

Ok, that's completely different.
A defective units is absolutely plausible.
You were unlucky, but you surely are going to receive another one.

 

[Trapezoid]

You are absolutely right, and I discovered it a little bit too late.
I'm still waiting for the video of someone taking his personal iPhone, putting in his front pocket and bend it just by walking around.

I suggest you stop waiting. It'll never happen

 

[SirCheese]

Thx.

No problem

 

[Max(IT)]

Well that's interesting. Seeing the inside, there is a reinforcing bar to strengthen the cutouts, but instead of making it a continuous bar as I suggested (or better yet, an i-beam or L beam, or at least a bar that's thicker at the cutouts) they have just short segments, attached by screws. Come on guys- the bend can rotate at the screws. It's like using a bike chain where you need a bar. All they had to do was make one long bar attached at the same points instead of several short ones and the phone would be much more bend-resistant, and a little simpler to produce to boot. I don't get it. There's literally no reason to not make that a continuous bar other than maybe a small fraction of a gram of weight. Instead, most of the weight is there with only a small fraction of the potential bending resistance.

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Bending the bar to be L-shaped would've been a huge and simple improvement, too. There's no reason not to.

And clearly you know it better than some of the most talented engineer on the market.

 

[yansun]

I just realize that. A little bit too late.
I'm not wasting more of my time with him.

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You are absolutely right, and I discovered it a little bit too late.
I'm still waiting for the video of someone taking his personal iPhone, putting in his front pocket and bend it just by walking around.

And how should that work? Record yourself 24/7 until the phone bent? I think you don't understand or you deliberately don't want to understand what's the assumed problem is with the phone.
It's not that you put it in your front pocket pants and its immediatelly bent. Then everyone immediatelly would have bent phones and that is obvisiously not the case. But because that is not the case you can't conclude the phone can't bent inside a front pocket.
There are so many different factors which could influence the possibility of the phone bending (size of the pants, size of the front pocket, force applied on the phone in a certain situation, and so on...) that the phone maybe just bends under certain conditions in certain situations. That's maybe also why there are "so few" people until now claiming their phone bent in their front pocket.
We just don't know. That's why time probably will be the only answer if this really is a big issue or not.

 

[dejo]

Mod Note: That's enough for a while.