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

[stasha]

if i was apple i'll sue those who create the bendgate and study the phone etc..

 

[Nuworld]

Mythbusters need to weigh in to seal the deal.

Now that's a good idea!
I'll second that.

 

[poiihy]

Guys check this video out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg

Nobody accidentally tries to bend their phone like that. And any other phone would break too if you bend it like that.

 

[Apple_Robert]

if i was apple i'll sue those who create the bendgate and study the phone etc..

Sue for what? It isn't illegal to take a brand new phone and break it.

 

[ouimetnick]

Guarantee all the apple fans now love consumer reports after swearing to never read them again after they claimed the iPhone 4 had a faulty antenna.

 

[ChrisTX]

we wtache d unboxtherpay bend the phone with his hands though?

The video has already been proven fake. Look at the times on the phone itself in the video. The time is earlier on the phone AFTER it's bended than beforehand. Clearly great video editing, and self aggrandizement for his YouTube video channel.

 

[munakib]

Someone GOT PAID!!!

 

[greytmom]

That video was painful to watch. Those poor phones.

One thing (among many) that I wondered with the Unboxed guy is why he was so careful to place the phone out of camera reach at the end of the video. Why not plop it right down on the table to show the degree of bend?

 

[subsonix]

Didn't HTC tweet about the bendability of the new iPhones? That's kind of embarrassing.

Yep, that tweet means that they consider this is a flaw. With that in mind and the new information, they must therefor think that the iPhone is better in this regard, and the brittle nature of their own product problematic. Or perhaps all this was overblown?

https://twitter.com/HTCUSA/status/515262428544651265

 

[SHNXX]

well to be fair to the bendgate thing, apple's iphone 6 and 6+ did perform worse than the samsung, which bent at greater than 2x force.

 

[Michael Scrip]

The weak spot on the iPhone 6+ is obviously the area where the down volume button cutout is. A force directly at that point will highlight the true strength of the phone. Therefore if someone was to sit on their phone and stress it at this location it won't need a lot of force to bend.

I still reckon this is a design compromise they could have avoided but instead chose to maintain its thinness of the phone against a potential backlash over the rigidity. Jony Ive got his way it seems.

I think that problem could be eliminated by NOT sitting on your phone.

I've never carried my phone in my back pocket... and I certainly wouldn't sit on it if I did.

There were reports of iPhones bending in a front pocket. That's what I want to see tested.

All these videos of industrial presses don't really give me the information I need.

I want real-world pocket tests.

 

[edenwaith]

Oh, the humanity. Such brutality dealt to innocent devices. All in the name of "science", right?

Or perhaps I just cringe at seeing these nice, new devices being mutilated. I'll happily give a new iPhone to a loving family.

 

[SethBoy]

The LG G3 started to deform and come apart at 130 pounds of force while the iPhone 5 deformed at 130 pounds of force and came apart at 150 pounds of force. The Galaxy Note 3, on the other hand, deformed and came apart at 150 pounds of force. Consumer Reports notes that while other phones, like the iPhone 6 and HTC One, were still functioning after deforming and coming apart, the Note 3 stopped working right away.

Where in the Consumer Reports article did they mention this?

 

[rick3000]

Sue for what? It isn't illegal to take a brand new phone and break it.

You might be able to make a case that the video was created with malicious intent to defame or irreparably damage the Apple and iPhone brand. I'm not a lawyer though.

 

[tito2020]

there point is that a high end phone should not bend like that especially after a billion dollar of research of engineers.

 

[Bahroo]

Bendgate Status: Closed

Yep, the M8 is either on par with the new iPhones or performed worse and the M8 is a solid phone, bendgate is over and this will virtually never be a problem

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well to be fair to the bendgate thing, apple's iphone 6 and 6+ did perform worse than the samsung, which bent at greater than 2x force.

Doesnt matter, Note 3 is alot thicker, the S5 and S4 break easier then the new iPhones, the new iPhones are quite dam durable and sturdy , better then most phones

 

[NY Guitarist]

Nice reality check.

 

[heartlegs]

Guys check this video out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg

Bendgate is FAR from closed, oh my God that was too easy to bend. I had hope when I saw this article but dang, nope, after this video I lost that hope. Sigh..

No one is watching this video, no one is discussing it, you guys are all just as bad as android fans. Blind consumerism.

 

[Moto G]

No... SURELY not?


Ya don't sayyyyyyyy




Dear media, thanks for "validating" the blindingly obvious.

 

[Bahroo]

there point is that a high end phone should not bend like that especially after a billion dollar of research of engineers.

Its a phone, thin phones , under 9mm catorgory, virtually all phones under 9 mm will bend and break with intentional prolonged applied force, the S5 and S4 are easier to break and bend then the new iPhones, this is virtually not a problem at all with the new iPhones and the new iPhones are actually pretty dam durable and sturdy.

Nobody is going to be forcibly bending my phone ever so I am okay and so is everyone else

 

[mailboxbetacoin]

well to be fair to the bendgate thing, apple's iphone 6 and 6+ did perform worse than the samsung, which bent at greater than 2x force.

yeah it's as if nobody read the results, the iPhone 6 and 6+ are not doing too good compare to Samsung, probably good enough though, although nobody would take the time to measure the force measured from sitting on your phones in different ways. Those numbers, without a reference, don't tell us much in what this means in the real world.

more interestingly the + is doing better than the 6 in this test, kinda funny considering that many people went for the 6 instead of the 6+ because fo bendgate

 

[coolfactor]

Guys check this video out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg

One thing that I notice that differs with these "by hand" bend tests is the uneven forces applied at different points on the phone case. Both Apple and Consumer Reports did "3-point tests" which apply even, distributed force at 3 points across the phone's frame. When bent by hand, the forces are applied unevenly, and that may be the killer difference for the iPhone 6. It doesn't seem to have a solid, one-piece frame.

I'm sorry to say, but I have to agree - the iPhone 6 definitely seems to have a flawed construction. Is this a manufacturing problem or a design problem?

 

[7thson]

BendGate's been gutted. Dope slapped by science! Please go back to enjoying your phone(s).

 

[apolloa]

I don't get how the 6 Plus was stronger in their test the the 6? Surely being longer it would be weaker?

On a side note... I bet the iPhone 4 would have taken 200Ibs of force!

 

[anonymous82]

Nobody accidentally tries to bend their phone like that. And any other phone would break too if you bend it like that.

Some dumbhead would.

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well to be fair to the bendgate thing, apple's iphone 6 and 6+ did perform worse than the samsung, which bent at greater than 2x force.

So???? The Samsung perform worse than my 10yr old Nokia 3310. What's your point here?