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

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AS I SAID......


Weakspot theory shows Bendgate’s not quite dead yet

Luke Dormehl (11:26 am PDT, Sep 26th)


http://www.cultofmac.com/297938/weakspot-theory-shows-bendgates-quite-dead-yet/



As alleras4 writes:

“It’s not about how much force must be applied and if a pocket will do the trick or not. It’s just that under a particular type of flexing, the phone is prone to bend mainly because a metal insert meant to reinforce instead spins in an axis too close to the critical point. If they were further apart allowing better support to counter the flexing and not [spinning], it would make it more resistant.”

The idea explains why Apple’s stress-testing techniques failed to discover the alleged fault, since unlike Unbox Therapy’s manual approach to bending, Apple applied equal force across the phone’s entire profile, rather than one side which was what was necessary to start the bending process.


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Been telling you monkeys that LAB TESTING typically only covers a SMALL PART of real world stress
 
cmaier said:
Lies:

1) two of three are bent. One is yours. Proof of lie: only photo you can produce shows it is straight

2) can't take a photo because have no camera. Proof of Lie: you earlier said your wife has iPhone 6. Whole string of lies here - doubt you even own two in your house, but can't prove that.

3) you'd take picture with login id or other proof that it's you. Proof of lie: you didn't.
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If the phone is straight in the photo, how is there light coming from between the ruler and the phone.


Here's a photo of my THREE iPhone 6 boxes complete with the ruler from the photo and my username, etc.

 
Max(IT) said:
Basically almost every new phone is more fragile than the previous, due to bigger screen and thinner profile.
Your point is?
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That is the issue. Bendgate has probably been overstated. But this new thinner phone is significantly more fragile than the iPhone 5 design. Sure day to day proper and normal use should never stress it. However I expect to carry my iPhone 6 with me every day for the next two or so years. We all make mistakes over the course of such a long period of time. Accidents will happen. The phone will get stressed by some unforeseen events and foreseeable ones like being put in the front pocket of jeans.

I don't think the phone is deficient. I think it is proven to be strong enough. But it is less strong and it will hence be more likely to fail over the course of years of use. For many people the cost is a significant amount of money and their hope is years of use followed by decent resale value. That has certainly been the value proposition for iPhones in the past. If the odds of breaking my phone over the next two years has gone from 10% for the iPhone 5 to 20% for the iPhone 6 then that could be an issue for some.

It is still the phone to get, in my opinion. With no actual viable competitor in the US once Apple Pay roles out and the improved iOS 8 apps are more common. But it would be a better phone if it was as resistant forces as the iPhone 5.
 
melendezest said:
I was referring to a sixty pound loss in rigidity between iPhones.

The report points this out clearly. This issue needs to be reported. People need to know that their device is almost 50% more fragile than before.
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You are interpreting these test results wrong. The iPhone 6 bends earlier in a testing setup. This does not approach real live by a long shot. In general use and under normal circumstances people will not even come close to these forces and will therefore never experience bending.

The majority >>99% of the 10 million phones bought last week will be straight for their entire lifetime.

In addition, there is no rule, design law or corporate ambition to increase the strength of phones over every design iteration. Apple and any other manufacturer is under no obligation to make their products stronger. It is not the only criterium that consumers want optimised in a new iteration.
 
fmcarv said:
Yeah but where in real life do you have the phone simply supported on two end points and the force precisely applied on that"weak spot"?

Care to explain....?
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And here is reason #1 of why i posted that picture.

I only posted a picture of SOMEONE ELSES theory.. I never said I agreed with it
 
Some of the biggest critics are android fanboys and manufacturers who are trying to push their craptastic junk.

This I took a hammer to the phone and it broke is just laughable.
 
Noone cares about your supposed "bendgate" any longer. It's high time the tiny corner of the internet who care about this nonsense, changed the subject and got on with their lives.

I'll give this trash a month, and you'll all have dropped it and moved onto something better, which will clearly show how utterly moronic people can behave when scared enough by so called "high profile" folk on stupid videos.

Get. A. Life.
 
craznar said:
So - we need to then spend time finding the week points in all phones, and ensuring they are tested as such. I know my Note II had weak points.

I suggest we put the phones all glass up on the test device - I'm sure that's where the weak point might be :)
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Actually YES. If there is a "design flaw" that is causing weak spots

the more testing the better.. ON ALL DEVICES
 
AlabamaSlammer said:
And here is reason #1 of why i posted that picture.

I only posted a picture of SOMEONE ELSES theory.. I never said I agreed with it
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Just look at infowars, anyone can create or find some cherry-picked BS point that promotes their gut-feeling.

Real testing involves a controlled environments and conditions, rather than arbitrary and subjective tests.
 
fmcarv said:
Hahaha

Come on man, move along

3 boxes??

Where's the bend??
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Monday you will see a phone used by a 60 year old woman who's phone bent under normal use. Plain and simple, you just have to wait until Monday when I am around the phone again to take the picture.

The picture of the boxes is in response to cmaier who doubts I actually bought three.
 
JDookie said:
Monday you will see a phone used by a 60 year old woman who's phone bent under normal use. Plain and simple, you just have to wait until Monday when I am around the phone again to take the picture.



The picture of the boxes is in response to cmaier who doubts I actually bought three.
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I'm more interest in photos and videos of your trip to the Apple Store

A bent phone you can get from your mate that's been posting on here too...
 
Moto G said:
Noone cares about your supposed "bendgate" any longer. It's high time the tiny corner of the internet who care about this nonsense, changed the subject and got on with their lives.

I'll give this trash a month, and you'll all have dropped it and moved onto something better, which will clearly show how utterly moronic people can behave when scared enough by so called "high profile" folk on stupid videos.

Get. A. Life.
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It’s the same losers who troll every single forum or article on the internet to tell us how much Apple sucks and android is apparently better.

Every site, every forum, every article, and even every blog without fail will have some android lover boy regurgitating the same tripe about Apple and so called isheep.
 
cmaier said:
No one saw light between the ruler and the phone. We sae light reflected off the ruler and phone. Maybe a better pic?

You kept the box for your mom's phone?
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What you're calling light on the ruler is the reflection of my fingers holding the camera, look closer. The light source is behind the phone and ruler.

Yes, I have the box to her phone. I bought it, set it up for her, put it in a case, and gave it to her. Why would that be an issue?
 
cmaier said:
No one saw light between the ruler and the phone. We sae light reflected off the ruler and phone. Maybe a better pic?



You kept the box for your mom's phone?
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Nope.

I see clearly the line of the antenna bit going all the way round to the edge of the ruler.

Nice try to play with lighting and reflections but didn't quite work....
 
aka777 said:
It’s the same losers who troll every single forum or article on the internet to tell us how much Apple sucks and android is apparently better.
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This is one of the primary reasons I abandoned my Note II. I had a number of issues with it - and anytime I went and asked about the problems, I'd get called an Apple fanboy (even though I was asking about MY Note 2).

I had nowhere to turn.

In some ways - if Bendgate were true - I'd still be miles better off, because a shared problem is easily solved, my Note II problems were mine in isolation.
 
JDookie said:
What you're calling light on the ruler is the reflection of my fingers holding the camera, look closer. The light source is behind the phone and ruler.

Yes, I have the box to her phone. I bought it, set it up for her, put it in a case, and gave it to her. Why would that be an issue?
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It's weird that you have the box but not the phone. And I've stared at that pic and see no light. Neither does anyone else. Go bend the ruler more and try again.
 
JDookie said:
If the phone is straight in the photo, how is there light coming from between the ruler and the phone.


Here's a photo of my THREE iPhone 6 boxes complete with the ruler from the photo and my username, etc.

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Give it up and don't waste your time arguing with certain people here ... Some would even deny that there could be the slightest possibility of bending iPhones in "normal" use, even if it would be the case with their own ones and instead come up with conspiracy theories like competitors paying the Apple manufacturers money to use rigged material in the production process to make the iPhone weaker and such "crap" ...
 
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