I don't think the issue here is who scored best. The issue here is if your are able to bend the phone by just sitting over it, or just bending with with your hands.
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Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
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I don't think the issue here is who scored best. The issue here is if your are able to bend the phone by just sitting over it, or just bending with with your hands.
Sorry I didn't pay attention to the usernames and didn't realize I was replying to a different person.
I was replying the the person's comment in the specific context that he believes the test is flawed because it doesn't take into account that "other phones snap back into place," when in fact it does.
Actually isn't less durable in any proved way. The test was focused only on resistance to bend.
I completely agree that it is blown out of proportion. With Apple, consumers expect the absolute best. In this bending test (topic of this thread), Note 3 withstood 150lb compared to iPhone 6's 70lb and 6 plus' 90lb. I am not saying that Note 3 is the better product, it's just a much stronger phone.
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I own two 6 plus devices had the HTC one M8 prior. Neither mine or my GFs is bent. And she is nowhere near as careful with electronics like I am.
Anyway, I feel like I should have bought a extra one just to purposely bend it for YouTube lol. All those clicks, likes, comments on the videos is $$$$. All those tech sites EASILY got their money back and some. Some of the well known ones like Unbox Therapy, their bend videos have almost 4 million views! THAT YouTube Money though........!
Anyway, I feel like I should have bought a extra one just to purposely bend it for YouTube lol. All those clicks, likes, comments on the videos is $$$$. All those tech sites EASILY got their money back and some. Some of the well known ones like Unbox Therapy, their bend videos have almost 4 million views! THAT YouTube Money though........!
Well known by whom? You?
Basically the only real test is what pleased your anti-Apple sentiment, is it correct?
There is not such a thing like a scientific drop test. All those YouTube drop test are junk, especially if conducted outside a controlled environment like a lab.
I think you have very compelling theory on this. I second that if the bond between the screen sub-assembly and the frame/aluminum case is compromised the whole structure of the iPhone 6/6+ looses part of is stiffness and integral structure. This indeed can be serious design flaw.
Gluing operations are very difficult to control unless they are not the main way to keep the two components secured.
However the capboy-videogate seem like a setup, so the iPhones he has easily bent may had been prepared by simply warming them and then separated the display from the rest, and weakened the bond.
Or indeed the high temperature achieved is affecting the glue bond....
Who knows...
The point is, it's pretty difficult to lift a barbell. First, you do need some skills, raw strength is not enough, during the lift you will have to apply speed at some points (thus applying much more strength), you will have to use smaller balancing muscles... It's a lot harder than just exercising 40kg worth of isometric effort or than applying that strength for the second and the few millimeters it takes to bend a phone.
Also, you're doing the work with your arms - small muscles that are not meant to support body weight. If you use you knee or even your foot to help lift the weight, the 45 barbell will become much easier to lift.
The problem is that when a phone is in your front pant pocket, that's the hip and the leg applying pressure and you have very strong muscles there, since they're meant to carrying you around (and you weight more than 40kg and you have cinnetic energy to top that).
The fact that the iPhone only bends under a force equivalent to a weight of 40kg certainly explains why it can bend in a pocket...
Edit: Oh you mean motorbike, my mind went to bicycle.
Electric bicycle actually... German made and specified for up to 170kg weight (375lbs). German build quality stuff but it tends to be on the heavy side. But I can assure you it doesn't bend or even wobble, despite having a woman frame.
If I drop a china plate on my hardwood kitchen floor and it breaks into pieces does it mean that china plate is less premium than a cheap plastic plate from Walmart? If that's the case then the most premium thing in my kitchen is the plastic drinking glasses I have because if I drop one of those on my kitchen floor it would never break.
The sample size is too small too. Any serious scientific test will have more samples.
A simple specs check will determine based on the material properties which one may stand higher levels of stress under specific conditions.
I have avoided this bending issue as of late. I bought the 6, not the plus.
What I found interesting is just to show how this news is spreading: Yesterday I was golfing, and while in a small dinning room having a good Caesar salad (yum), I overheard the convo from another table next to me.
Some older gentleman, probably in their 60's-70's discussing the new iPhone. One man said, "hey, did you hear that new iPhone bends really easy?"
Took me a bit by surprise, people are discussing however untrue it may be. Stuff spreads like wildfire today.
What I found interesting is just to show how this news is spreading: Yesterday I was golfing, and while in a small dinning room having a good Caesar salad (yum), I overheard the convo from another table next to me.
Some older gentleman, probably in their 60's-70's discussing the new iPhone. One man said, "hey, did you hear that new iPhone bends really easy?"
Took me a bit by surprise, people are discussing however untrue it may be. Stuff spreads like wildfire today.
Actually the HTC is weaker according to the same test. In real life you may or may not putting 70 pounds on it (but not on a single point), but that's pointless: you are not supposed to sit on a phone that basically is made of glass and aluminum!!!!
You can do any sorts of tests and publish them in YouTube to cash-in real premium stuff.
Again, you are not supposed to sit on a mostly glass phone. It doesn't matter the brand our model it is.
When I broke my wrist and went through therapy in the spring grip strength was one of the benchmarks. I was surprised that a person my age averaged around 120 lbs grip strength with their dominant hand. So could the youtube guy exert 90-100 lbs to bend the phone easily? Maybe, but that doesn't mean it is natural. I just wanted to state that since it can be surprising how much force the body can put out albeit I wouldn't call these natural forces.
This whole bending thing still seems super rare given the number of phones out there. The antenna thing had way more incidents in my opinion.
This whole bending thing still seems super rare given the number of phones out there. The antenna thing had way more incidents in my opinion.
I had the HTC One M8 before I got a 6 plus. Technically the M8 back is bent to give it a optical illusion that it's thinner that it really is. It doesn't lay flush on the table it will rock back and forth.
So technically the HTC One M8 is bent too ##
So is everyone done arguing now? #
So technically the HTC One M8 is bent too ##
So is everyone done arguing now? #
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Was anyone claiming that the HTC was bending in their pockets? Or that the standard 6 was the one with the problems? Nope, which is why people are rightfully saying that this ends the controversy. The 6 Plus is stronger than two other phones that no one was complaining about.
I'm not saying that this is what happened in this case but I wonder if this will become the new norm where companies try to undermine each other by launching misinformation campaigns on social media. At least with traditional news media outlets, they attempt to some degree authenticate information before publishing it out to the masses. Given the nature of social media, any clown can put out misinformation and have it reach the masses at hyper-speed. At that point, the truth really becomes irrelevant and the damage is already done. IMO, the only way to combat these types of unscrupulous attacks is for companies to take aggressive legal action against all parties involved.
I adore your logic
Premium means a more delicate device, like a delicate flower that must be treated with care.
And yet, we all know, without shadow of ANY doubt whatsoever, that if, after this test the Apple was the strongest in this test, and not 50% weaker than Samsung you would be SHOUTING.
Apple is premium, look how much higher quality it is that that cheap Samsung junk that broke 50% quicker.
Amazing, I love the logic that's twisted around in any directions desperately trying to show Apple is best, regardless of where it comes in a test.
If Apple was in a race and they came last, I guess you would say, it's not about who came 1st, Apple may of come in as one of the last in the race, but they ran the race in a more quality way.
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