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

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jb007clone said:
Your basis for him being a liar is that the iPhone wasn't on the proper setup screen in the video, correct? So that means the entire video is a fake?? Have you ever considered that he went through the setup process with the plastic still on? Then again, if he just showed the setup screen and nothing else you'd be calling him a liar as well, right?

Bendgate is real and I know it hurts a fanboy such as yourself. Come here and let me drink the tears of unfathomable sadness.
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No i did not consider he went through the setup process when he said it was a brand new, unsealed iPhone.

You're hurt because it's been proven as an overblown issue. Posting silly cartoons doesn't mask that.
 
jb007clone said:
Your basis for him being a liar is that the iPhone wasn't on the proper setup screen in the video, correct? So that means the entire video is a fake?? Have you ever considered that he went through the setup process with the plastic still on? Then again, if he just showed the setup screen and nothing else you'd be calling him a liar as well, right?

Bendgate is real and I know it hurts a fanboy such as yourself. Come here and let me drink the tears of unfathomable sadness.
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There is also this very very "convincing" conspiracy theory that the phone in the video is not even an real iPhone or an real iPhone with fake aluminium back ... :D
 
70 lbs of force?

I wonder how hat-on-backwards boy developed that strong grip?:p

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zorinlynx said:
The money that Consumer Reports makes in ad revenue from this video far exceeds the cost of the phones they destroyed.
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Consumer Reports doesn't accept ads.
 
I am not necessarily against the iPhone 6, I do think Apple is an arrogant drink-the-cool aide kind of company (I will concede they have probably earned that “right” because of their success and innovations), but I admit that I am on my fourth iPhone (5s) and I love the iPhone.

I will add that I am starting to dislike, a tiny bit, that the base iPhone keeps getting larger and larger; since I am one who keeps my iPhone in my back pants pocket. OK sure, maybe I should not keep my iPhone in my back pants pocket, but it works for me. Anyway, I think the 5S is a good size and after sitting on my phone many times over the past year, I have yet to bend it. For me, the iPhone 6 is at the “max limit” for size as a pants pocket storage person.

My reluctance in moving to the iPhone 6 is the whole bendability issue. There is absolutely no doubt, based on the Consumer Reports test, the iPhone 5/5s is stronger than the iPhone 6 in a “bend from the back” test. However, for me the real question is the iPhone 6 strong enough for my everyday use and OK for someone like me who keeps their phone in their back pants pocket. Time will tell.
 
rGiskard said:
The antennas are external so there would be no inductive loop effect. In fact the the entire phone is banded by aluminum, so why doesn't that create an inductive loop?

Finally, what I'm suggesting isn't a continuous band around the phone, only continuous plates on each side of the phone. To my admittedly limited knowledge, that wouldn't create an inductive loop.
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Aluminium isn't electrically conductive to that level, so it wouldn't induce a current (which is why Aluminium is a popular material in phones).

I don't know enough about antenna design to know if even a continuous rod up each side might have helped or hindered.

However, thanks to your earlier feedback - I suspect the real culprit may be at hand.
 
Trapezoid said:
Problem is he pressed the home button and it went straight to the homescreen. If it was a brand new phone it would have gone to the set up screen or have been off.
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Good point. I noticed that myself. I just thought that he just set it up prior to the bend test, which would only require a few taps, even with the plastic still on it.
 
Max(IT) said:
That video doesn't exist.
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Thanks for clarification on that.

So this is indeed all a bunch of hogwash then yet.

The last I checked it was iPhone 6 Plus bent in pocket.

Then it soared to, "Look at me, I can take an iPhone 6 Plus and push on the back while pulling on the edges and SEE LOOK IT BROKE!"

Now it seems the conversation has devolved into the non-correlation between the iPhone bending in your pocket with no interference from anyone or anything and a mysterious 90lbs force that magically pushes on your phone to bend it meanwhile you don't feel a thing.
 
lookatchu said:
Good point. I noticed that myself, thinking he just set it up prior to the bend test, which would only require a few taps.
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He could have absolutely. Problem is he made a huge point about how it was brand new and unsealed. Loses credibility (well actually no he somehow gained credibility with the Android fanatics lol).
 
lookatchu said:
Isn't leaning forward with an iPhone in your front pocket applying 90 lbs or more force to the iPhone? Now, if you apply it near or at the sweet (weak) spot, well, it bends.

Honest question: How and when was backwards cap guy proven to be a liar?

BTW, backwards cap guy hardly applied that much force. In Consumer's test, the force was applied evenly. That's not practical....at all.
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Take a 90lb coil spring and put it between your leg and a table and see if it moves? 90lbs per square inch is a lot more then people think.

My 31 Ford Sreet Rod weighs 2200lb and has 200lb coil springs in front to hold ride height and that's with a small block V8.

What would be the magic number that would make people happy? 500lbs?
 
Dorje Sylas said:
Which goes back to the point that strongest part of the phone/device/object is never the point of failure. An object is only as weak as its weakest point.

Which still makes the iPhone 6 physically weaker than the 5. Wouldn't matter if the screen was made out of Star Wars transpasteel and could take turbo laser strikes, if the rest of it can't stand up to hand bending.

The ONLY way this could be an advatange would be if the bending and disconnecting of components allowed the more expensive display and touch input systems to survive and allow for in-expensive repair/replacement costs. This sadly not the situation.

The 6 is just too thin and too weak.

And I would argue personally needlessly too big. The iPhone 5 struck about the right balance of nice.
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Speaking of transparasteel, I think we can conclude that aloominium is a poor material for mobile devices short of some stellar engineering gymnastics.

I would love to see another steel iPhone like the 4. Maybe some combination of steel and aloominium could be used to keep Ive happy.
 
yansun said:
There is also this very very "convincing" conspiracy theory that the phone in the video is not even an real iPhone or an real iPhone with fake aluminium back ... :D
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You know what's very very convincing? This:

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craznar said:
Aluminium isn't electrically conductive to that level, so it wouldn't induce a current (which is why Aluminium is a popular material in phones).

I don't know enough about antenna design to know if even a continuous rod up each side might have helped or hindered.

However, thanks to your earlier feedback - I suspect the real culprit may be at hand.
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Good point, I'd forgotten that aluminum's electrical conductivity is relatively low.
 
BvizioN said:
Qute, but as you can see HTC did perform worst of all phones and really there is no way around that, therefore it is at the very bottom

I know it must be really upsetting for you as a fandroid who wastes his time in Apple forums but you will be fine ;)
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I hate Android, I use an iPhone 5S.

The HTC One (M8) AND the iPhone 6 (not the iPhone 6 plus you moron) both bent at 70 pounds of force. You need to learn to read the very simple Consumer Reports chart that lists all six phones tested.
 
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jlabute said:
The iphone6 is still weaker than most phones. No wonder there are so many reports of bending. It is weaker than previous iphones
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The number or reports still stands at 9. Did you mean articles by news outlets looking for clicks?
 
apolloa said:
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!
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It's also thicker, and the force you need to yield a material grows quadratically with the thickness.
 
calzon65 said:
I hate Android, I use an iPhone 5S.

The HTC One (M8) AND the iPhone 6 (not the iPhone 6 plus you moron) both bent at 70 pounds of force. You need to learn to read the very simple Consumer Reports chart that lists all six phones tested.
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Yeah, ok granny...

Put the glasses on, wear your hearing aid and watch the video again.

Then after you have a quick mug of tea, come back.
 
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