I had a look at hanzoh's posting history earlier, and I agree that it is suspect. Check out the odd time spacing between his infrequent posts too.
However, I have to commend him on the depth of his cover - he's definitely the mole's mole!
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Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
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I had a look at hanzoh's posting history earlier, and I agree that it is suspect. Check out the odd time spacing between his infrequent posts too.
However, I have to commend him on the depth of his cover - he's definitely the mole's mole!
I see a shiny spot on the top, but the ruler is shiny there so it looks like light projected from where the camera is, not coming from behind the ruler. But if this is what everyone is up in arms about, apple has nothing to worry about. (Assuming he even took the photo. He said he'd post a photo next to paper with a code or the like from previous posts to show it was his photo and not something off the web).
Yeah I see the reflection of the light on the ruler and shining also on the back of the phone...
No bend I'm afraid!
Next.....
omg. it amazes me how people in the third world kill/stab people to get their hands on an iphone. and in western countries people are breaking them for just to see what happens! if only they knew how valuable that commodity is in other parts of the world.
Well, not much. Let's say they can get a few thousand for the phones. But the money they can make by making the videos and selling subscriptions is exponentially more! Duh? It's called investing.
This is in fact the problem, Uri Geller could bend spoons with his mind in front of crowds. This guy can bend phones in front of crowds.
Sure - it looks impressive, but there is no actual way to determine the validity of what he is doing.
So far I've seen only TWO objective reports on the structural limits of the iPhone 6+, both agree with around 40kg to deform, and the latter 50kg to fracture. Add that to the materials science of metal (stronger but less flexible than plastics) and you get some convincing statements that there isn't a significant design issue.
I'm currently not 100% sure that there isn't a problem, I'd like to see more objective testing - not more possible magic tricks.
BTW - Enjoying my 6+ after two years with a Galaxy Note 2.
Funny you should mention that. Do a search for consumer report around the time of 'you are holding it wrong' and everyone on this forum called them sensasionalists and liars that could not perform a decent test even if their life depended on it
As another poster commented, many posters who believed the CS reports during the antennagate probably are now discrediting the iPhone 6 / 6+ testing now. So I guess both forces cancel each other out for all practical purposes.
Come on man, I only have two hands. I was holding the phone and ruler with one hand, and taking the photo with the other hand, all of which was pointed at my ceiling light.
This is NOT what everyone is up at arms about. This phone is FIXED. I was able to bend it back to flat. Just wait until Monday and I'll show you what everyone is complaining about.
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No kidding, I told you that already. You demanded a picture TODAY, and I told you that the only phone I have in front of me is mine which I managed to fix. The corner is still bent slightly whether you want to admit it or not, but nowhere near as bad as the other phone.
And by the way, what you're saying is light refracting from the ruler to the phone is the reflection of my fingers holding the camera, so YOU try again. I took the photo with no flash. The only light source is coming from BEHIND the phone.
I don't see any bend whatsoever.
It will be fun to see what Apple says to you....think they will laugh!
But please do a little video of your visit to the Apple genius
It's not impossible, for sure. But what are those circumstances? If we are speaking about carrying it on you pockets while take a walk I would be with you, but if you mean sitting on it, maybe with a 200 lbs butt, well it's your fault, not Apple's
Of course 1. is correct, that's not at issue. I assume your point is that it is more likely that Apple fanboys would try to hide this problem, if it were indeed wide spread, than it is that shills come on to the forums with new accounts to inflate and perpetuate an issue that is actually not widespread and very minimal.
Before you make your obligatory tinfoil hat remark, malicious activity by disingenuous internet accounts on forums backed by competing tech companies is a documented and reported on fact, and has been prosecuted on in courts of law around the world, and is suspected to occur on an ever increasing basis every year. Apple's competitors have been convicted of this behavior before (albight not against Apple, but amongst themselves.)
Personally, I hold the reporting of CNN, Consumer Reports, and SquareTrade as much more credible sources of information regarding this issue than a YouTube backwards cap wearing tech nerd bound by no obligation or motivation towards journalistic objectivity, and WAY higher than a group of posters that just created their accounts in the aftermath of the, in my opinion, "illusionary" #bendgate. Heck, SquareTrade has an actual financial motivation (higher insurance premiums) to manipulate their results - they could easily have slightly biased their testing in light of this viral fiasco, and made bank by degrading their risk rating of the device by only half or a whole point or something.
If you see a regular guy take an iPhone 6 plus on YouTube and bend it with his bare hands easily, this is real life test.
If you read that people went to a party and return with bent iPhone, that's real life test.
IPhone 6 plus got a design bug as the iPhone 4 antena, live with it. There is no need to defend apple no matter what.
........deep breath.........this IS NOT THE PHONE THAT IS BADLY BENT. The phone I am going to the Apple store with is not the phone in the picture. Regardless, if the phone isn't bent, then please tell me how light is passing under the ruler at the corner? If the ruler is flat (why I used a metal one), and the phone is flat, no light should pass.
Sorry I wasn't in a rush to make the picture perfect for you.
Ps. The screen cracked in his pocket, from the frame bending...
I haven't had the problem with my phone.
Ah so you had two bent phones out of three....but now one phone is fixed (the one in the photo) and the other one that it's bent you don't really have....
Dude, it doesn't matter what you say or post pictures of, they won't believe you. I had no clue I was going to spend my morning trying to defend myself so don't fall into the same trap. You know the truth, and I know they truth. The rest will find out soon enough whether they want to or not unfortunately.
You started out saying two out of three phones were bent, and the only one that wasn't bent was in a purse. Then you said you'd take photos of two on monday, next to a piece of paper with writing on it proving these are actually your phones and not something from the web.
Then it became "i only have access to one bent phone, the other i can't photograph until monday"
Then it became "i can't take a picture of the one bent phone i have because I don't have a camera"
Then it became "well, sure my wife has the other phone, with a camera, but she's at work."
Then it became "well, nothing to see here anyway, because I fixed one of the bent phones"
Then it became "here's a picture of a phone with no bend in it. Oh, and just forget about that thing where I said I'd prove it's my own picture by writing something on a piece of paper. But just wait until monday."
Given this evolving story, how are we supposed to believe anything beyond "on monday whoever is paying me to post all this is going to provide me with a photo of a bent phone?"
You must have missed your science class the day of the lecture about how a scientifically significant test is conducted. If something happens once that's an event not a scientificly-made conclusion.
I don't know if there is a design flaw in the plus or not, but your above description is not a test.
But still in all the bending tests we've seen no cracking occurred of any screen at any point .....
It's entirely possible Samsung paid him to register at MR in 2005 sensing Apply is preparing a smartphone launch in 2007 so he can come and diss the 6-th gen in 2014. To me it makes perfect sense.
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