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

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Guarantee you, Samsung is buying iPhone 6 Plusses, bending them, and having people carry them around in the wild and post videos about them.

But I agree with the editorial on AI, all this is doing is focusing even MORE of the world's attention, if that were even possible, on the iPhone 6.

This may be the biggest backfire in the history of negative viral campaigning.

If the phones are soundly constructed, then millions and millions of people are increasingly going to have them, and the vast majority of those people are going to tell their friends that the iPhone 6 Plus is well constructed.

And that is the biggest flaw in this anti-Apple Bendgate campaign -- the ultimate viral marketing is going to come from happy iPhone 6 owners.

It's almost like, the more Samsung rails against Apple, and attacks Apple, and does bad things to Apple, the more Samsung gets hurt as a company.
 
fmcarv said:
But if CR was to apply a force to the iPhone's weak point then they would have to apply the same force to all other phones weak points.

And trust me they all have them
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Of course they all have weak points, the question is how those weak points compare.

For testing with limited resources, I'd prefer an average sized dude with relaxed fit jeans and a couch. Put the phones in the same back pocket and have him plop on the couch. That would identify the weak points in real-world use. Then run a three point test on the weak points for each phone. Two copies of each model and you have more applicable real-world results and CR's test.
 
calzon65 said:
The problem I have with so many of the other bend test videos, people are bending with their hands and that is very unscientific. The Consumer Reports test is based on a solid and replicateable scientific approach.
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Unscientific, but a bent phone.
 
rGiskard said:
Of course they all have weak points, the question is how those weak points compare.



For testing with limited resources, I'd prefer an average sized dude with relaxed fit jeans and a couch. Put the phones in the same back pocket and have him plop on the couch. That would identify the weak points in real-world use. Then run a three point test on the weak points for each phone. Two copies of each model and you have more applicable real-world results and CR's test.
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Jonathan from TLD did something like this on YouTube but unfortunately with a case on and no comparison with other phones
 
Here is a simple video I made showing how my iPhone 6+ got bent. Twice now. Now that I know this happens, I simply pull my pants leg up a bit while I am kneeling down and that gives it the needed room. Having never had to do that before with any other phones I have owned I did not know it was necessary. I have never put my phone into my back pocket and sat on it. Please don't come back to me with that.

You guys would really be surprised, as I was, at how little force was required for the corner to bend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQxX_x3HTXQ
 
SarcasticJoe said:
I doubt this thing is going away any time soon... People in general don't care about facts when it suits their agenda, that's unfortunately just how it is with people.

Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of nazi Germany in case you slept trough your history classes, is claimed to have once said that "If a lie is repeated enough times, people will believe it" and I suppose this, like the whole iBrute thing about a month ago, is just that.

First we had a couple of videos of guys grabbing them and bending them with all their strength at the weak point and people reposted those on pretty much every site on the internet that would have them. Now when the "truth" has been established, no amount of scientifically conduced tests will be able to change the minds of the people who had those videos put up all over the internet.

To return to Nazi Germany, for decades after the war there were plenty of Germans who still believed that Jews were "subhuman" and the ones responsible for the hard times they had experienced before Hitler came to power.
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Great. Now we're talking about the nazis. Have the apple-fanboys completely LOST THEIR MIND? Is this earth?
 
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penajmz said:
The ending of bendgate.
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Not even close. The test was at the center of the phone, not the perspective weak point located where the volume buttons are. You can even see two bends in the phone in the Consumer Reports test photo caused by the support (where the phone initially bent as well as the location where the bend is greater).

Check out this guy's analysis of the situation. The Consumer Reports completely ignores the major weak point.
 
SarcasticJoe said:
I doubt this thing is going away any time soon... People in general don't care about facts when it suits their agenda, that's unfortunately just how it is with people.

Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of nazi Germany in case you slept trough your history classes, is claimed to have once said that "If a lie is repeated enough times, people will believe it" and I suppose this, like the whole iBrute thing about a month ago, is just that.

First we had a couple of videos of guys grabbing them and bending them with all their strength at the weak point and people reposted those on pretty much every site on the internet that would have them. Now when the "truth" has been established, no amount of scientifically conduced tests will be able to change the minds of the people who had those videos put up all over the internet.

To return to Nazi Germany, for decades after the war there were plenty of Germans who still believed that Jews were "subhuman" and the ones responsible for the hard times they had experienced before Hitler came to power.
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Acknowledging the iPhone 6+ has bending problem is just like Nazi Germany, and Goebbels too!

Please tell me that was a failed attempt at snark.
 
richardsonrs said:
Here is a simple video I made showing how my iPhone 6+ got bent. Twice now. Now that I know this happens, I simply pull my pants leg up a bit while I am kneeling down and that gives it the needed room. Having never had to do that before with any other phones I have owned I did not know it was necessary. I have never put my phone into my back pocket and sat on it. Please don't come back to me with that.

You guys would really be surprised, as I was, at how little force was required for the corner to bend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQxX_x3HTXQ
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Don't see any bend dude...
 
Trapezoid said:
The embarassment is that HTC's phones were deemed even more bendable. The truth of course is that all of these phones are as sturdy as they come, and watching some moron in a backwards hat intentionally bending iPhones doesn't mean that "bendgate" is some widespread disaster that is plaguing all iPhones.

Of course, the dude in the backwards hat and Macrumors both know they can make money by taking advantage of the silly people who believe that it is a widespread disaster, so we keep seeing videos, blogs and threads about it.

It's good business taking advantage of morons.
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Go try and bend an M8 and see if it's easier than a 6+.
 
richardsonrs said:
Here is a simple video I made showing how my iPhone 6+ got bent. Twice now. Now that I know this happens, I simply pull my pants leg up a bit while I am kneeling down and that gives it the needed room. Having never had to do that before with any other phones I have owned I did not know it was necessary. I have never put my phone into my back pocket and sat on it. Please don't come back to me with that.

You guys would really be surprised, as I was, at how little force was required for the corner to bend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQxX_x3HTXQ
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I see no bend. Why wouldn't you show it close up? Please redo the video.
 
rGiskard said:
You tell me: did not one person go Android because of the iPhone antenna defect?

That would be a rather bold claim.
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I'm sure their was, as I'm sure there was that wanted a bigger screen etc. My question was sales, Apple still had record sales!

It did not hurt their overall sales!
 
richardsonrs said:
Here is a simple video I made showing how my iPhone 6+ got bent. Twice now. Now that I know this happens, I simply pull my pants leg up a bit while I am kneeling down and that gives it the needed room. Having never had to do that before with any other phones I have owned I did not know it was necessary. I have never put my phone into my back pocket and sat on it. Please don't come back to me with that.

You guys would really be surprised, as I was, at how little force was required for the corner to bend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQxX_x3HTXQ
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So it's Apple fault and a design fault you go about doing yoga with a 5.5inch phone in your pocket?
 
yansun said:
Anyway this seems to be a real and not a non issue. I really don't believe all these people who are stating their phone bent under "normal" use made their story up because someone paid them/they hate Apple or that they are lying about what they done to it.
Even in the CR test the iPhone was way more vulnerable to bending than the other 3 tested phones except the HTC. In addition there seems to be a "weak spot" where you probably even have to put less pressure on to bend the phone (not tested by CR). And if your and rGiskards assumption is right, then its maybe even worse... I hope not, because I actually still want to buy one.
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I'm guessing "normal usage" for a college kid isn't the same as normal usage for the rest of us.

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jb007clone said:
Yes, it is. Now, however, Consumer Reports is "infallible" and "utterly scientific".
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CR is definitely more scientific and unbiased than some unknown kid abusing a phone on YouTube.
 
Trapezoid said:
I see no bend. Why wouldn't you show it close up? Please redo the video.
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Not judging the guy and he might even have a bent phone.

But that attempt to show the bend made me chuckle LOL

higher in the sky... A bit higher.... There there's the bend"

Hahahahahahahah
 
Trapezoid said:
I see no bend. Why wouldn't you show it close up? Please redo the video.
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That's because I already bent it back the first time, and the second time it wasn't as bad because I was being a lot more careful. It still did it though. It's all good man. You can see it easily if you just pause the video and watch on it HQ. I have no problem seeing it at all. Don't know what to tell you. It happened get over it. I am, especially after today when they give me a new phone..

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fmcarv said:
Not judging the guy and he might even have a bent phone.

But that attempt to show the bend made me chuckle LOL

higher in the sky... A bit higher.... There there's the bend"

Hahahahahahahah
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Well I didn't have her vantage point lol
 
richardsonrs said:
That's because I already bent it back the first time, and the second time it wasn't as bad because I was being a lot more careful. It still did it though. It's all good man. You can see it easily if you just pause the video and watch on it HQ. I have no problem seeing it at all. Don't know what to tell you. It happened get over it. I am, especially after today when they give me a new phone..
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These guys that bend phones always miraculously bend them back into shape...

Dear me!!

Show me a bent phone!!!
 
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