All Consumer Reports has to do to verify this is redo the test and shift the max moment to the volume button
If they do it and it's still 70 pounds to bend, the phone is fine
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Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
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All Consumer Reports has to do to verify this is redo the test and shift the max moment to the volume button
If they do it and it's still 70 pounds to bend, the phone is fine
Wonderig how much did Consumer Report gets from Apple. The timing seems too odd, almost like Apple and Consumer Report made a deal that Consumer Report to backing Apple up.
Congratulations, consumer report, you just get your ticket to next Apple's iPhone event.
Congratulations, consumer report, you just get your ticket to next Apple's iPhone event.
Yup. Anyone who thinks their phone can be bent, send it to me and i will make you a video.
Guarantee all the apple fans now love consumer reports after swearing to never read them again after they claimed the iPhone 4 had a faulty antenna.
No. I still hate Consumer Reports.
Simple advice to flip cap kid
Invite REAL MEMBERS of the public to meet you, including Apple engineering staff (they'll likely decline, but at least you tried), before...
#1 Walk into the Apple store, BUY an iPhone 6 Plus ON CAMERA - NO CUTS.
#2 Walk outside, unfold a table - again - WITH NO SCENE CUTS - and set up some test equipment (strain gauges, measurement equipment etc).
#3 Allow ANYONE to film you and verify your "tests" are legit.
... actually... no, don't bother actually... this is boring now.
Invite REAL MEMBERS of the public to meet you, including Apple engineering staff (they'll likely decline, but at least you tried), before...
#1 Walk into the Apple store, BUY an iPhone 6 Plus ON CAMERA - NO CUTS.
#2 Walk outside, unfold a table - again - WITH NO SCENE CUTS - and set up some test equipment (strain gauges, measurement equipment etc).
#3 Allow ANYONE to film you and verify your "tests" are legit.
... actually... no, don't bother actually... this is boring now.
Well in the interest of balance, the iPhone 6 is pretty darn strong when dropped:
I was mightily impressed I have to say.
I was mightily impressed I have to say.
why can't just a reputable source such as consumer reports, or any of the tech blog, try to replicate the bending by hand test.
We know the testing machines don't bend it easily, we get that, Apple tested it, Consumer reports tested it....
And then we have a guy that everybody claims to be a fake, easily bending the phone by hand.
Can't we just have a reputable source do that test?
We know the testing machines don't bend it easily, we get that, Apple tested it, Consumer reports tested it....
And then we have a guy that everybody claims to be a fake, easily bending the phone by hand.
Can't we just have a reputable source do that test?
Yeah that's how I would do it, but you're not allowed to film in Apple stores from what I understand? But I would want to see someone walk into the store, buy the phone and walk out, stand outside the store, unwrap and bend the phone.
He somehow thought that peeling cellophane off the (whatever model) phone was a sign of validating it as a LEGIT iPhone 6 Plus...
- 'coz no Chinese person would think to wrap a clone in plastic... </sarcasm>What a goof. I think he's bending fake iPhones, and using the profits from YT to buy REAL ones... hahaha!
To your point, you have evidence to prove it can bend from normal use? It's been a week and if things like that happen, we should hear more from people. Other than the unboxed guy video and all the media around it together with some incidents, I still have not heard anything new.
I have the 6+ since launch day and put it in my pocket a couple hours everyday, it's still straight to my standard. Is it stronger than my previous 5S? It may be not, but I am willing to sacrifice one aspect in compensation for the improvements in many others. Like when I moved from 4S to 5, though I admit that the 4 and 4S have the best design, in my opinion.
Since that is the weakest points in the phone, can we get them to find the weakest points of the competitors and do the same thing?
dude bends the phone again. breaks too easy. i'm calling fake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg&list=UUsTcErHg8oDvUnTzoqsYeNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg&list=UUsTcErHg8oDvUnTzoqsYeNw
he he..
A perfectly calibrated ass which applies the right amount of pressure on exactly the right spot.
I would also like to see real-life pocket stress tests..
Hot models w/ booty in skinny jeans = perfect test case
Meanwhile ...why is this not on MR?
IPhone Locks Out the N.S.A., Signaling a Post-Snowden Era.
By DAVID E. SANGER and BRIAN X. CHEN
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
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IPhone Locks Out the N.S.A., Signaling a Post-Snowden Era.
By DAVID E. SANGER and BRIAN X. CHEN
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
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So lets get this straight, when your phone is in your front pockets, while standing obviously the device is straight up in your pocket(I would hope you dont' hold your phone sideways in your pocket or something)
And when you sit down with your phone in your pocket it is also straight, any pocket pressure that is applied on the phone by pants/jeans gets spreaded/would get spreaded across the device pushing down on the device and not in a concentrated spot when in a pair of front pockets. So how do these phones bend in the pocket/how would pocket pressure initiate pressure by the volume rocker on a phone causing a bend/crack by the volume rocker in a phone? Its essentially almost impossible, the pressure is spread out more so then direct spot when its in your pocket
The 3 point bend test is actually fairly accurate when trying to simulate "pocket pressure" because the pressure applied on your phone in your pocket(if there was any pressure) isnt going to be concentrated on one single area of the phone, it gets spread out pretty evenly
You would be surprised that alot of phones are actually prone and weakest by the volume rockers (S4, S5 , others are prone to this aswell) but that in only under extreme conditions will this really occur, (basically someone forcibly intentionally applying prolonged pressure on your phone, or sitting on your phone in the back pocket; which BTW if anyone ever does this, your phonen deserves to get damaged if you sit on your device with your body weight, this will never ever happen to me)
And when you sit down with your phone in your pocket it is also straight, any pocket pressure that is applied on the phone by pants/jeans gets spreaded/would get spreaded across the device pushing down on the device and not in a concentrated spot when in a pair of front pockets. So how do these phones bend in the pocket/how would pocket pressure initiate pressure by the volume rocker on a phone causing a bend/crack by the volume rocker in a phone? Its essentially almost impossible, the pressure is spread out more so then direct spot when its in your pocket
The 3 point bend test is actually fairly accurate when trying to simulate "pocket pressure" because the pressure applied on your phone in your pocket(if there was any pressure) isnt going to be concentrated on one single area of the phone, it gets spread out pretty evenly
You would be surprised that alot of phones are actually prone and weakest by the volume rockers (S4, S5 , others are prone to this aswell) but that in only under extreme conditions will this really occur, (basically someone forcibly intentionally applying prolonged pressure on your phone, or sitting on your phone in the back pocket; which BTW if anyone ever does this, your phonen deserves to get damaged if you sit on your device with your body weight, this will never ever happen to me)
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He somehow thought that peeling cellophane off the (whatever model) phone was a sign of validating it as a LEGIT iPhone 6 Plus...
What a goof. I think he's bending fake iPhones, and using the profits from YT to buy REAL ones... hahaha!
Yeah, I'm sure Lew isn't making it up but..... he does really need to show some more authenticity in these videos, like not holding your arms out straight when trying to bend the Moto X for 2 seconds, unlike having bent arms and bending an iphone 6 Plus for 5 seconds...
He could have unwrapped the phone from the box on camera for one!
I watched the video twice and Im pretty sure they did not mention that the Note 3 stopped working at the start of the test.
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He somehow thought that peeling cellophane off the (whatever model) phone was a sign of validating it as a LEGIT iPhone 6 Plus...
What a goof. I think he's bending fake iPhones, and using the profits from YT to buy REAL ones... hahaha!
So if he was able to film it in the store, you would say that the store was fake, or the genius who handed the phone to him was a plant, or an actor...
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