Wats considered normal? For example, could an almost hippopotamus sized human sitting on the phone be considered as a normal human body movement?
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Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
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Wats considered normal? For example, could an almost hippopotamus sized human sitting on the phone be considered as a normal human body movement?
My phone stays in my pocket screen in. Did you even watch the video? You can see how when I kneel down it doesn't shift with me. It gets stopped at an angle. That is what did it. I have adjusted my ways already and just pull my pants leg up and adjust the phone as I am kneeling now. Simple and done. But I still have a compromised phone and it will be replaced.
That would be funny ... let's see ... Apple pays CR to put out a bad video LOL. Conspiracy is everywhere.
thanks for the lesson...
I am an engineer myself, appreciate every bit of science we can get on this.
However, as good as those machines are at modeling a real life scenario, they are still NOT a real life scenario.
Furthermore, the 'scientific' test tells you it can sustain up to 70-90 pounds in that specific test; but if nobody gives us the typical force a phone that size is subject to when in a front pocket while seating, a back pocket, a bump against this or that; then those numbers mean absolutely nothing.
Without those comparisons, this test only value is the relative strength against competitors and previous versions of the phone, and indeed it is weaker than all of those.
That is, at this stage, the ONLY SCIENTIFIC conclusion we get with the data they give us. So since you embrace science that much, you should be worried, and not the opposite.
Unfortunately, Apple is known to have very little free play QA time with their devices, as very very few employees get access to them before release; and when they do, they're often wrap in some bulky disguising case.
And btw, please try to read other people's comments accurately; I have never talked about having such test made in a 'reputable way' (which probably doesn't mean anything anyway), but by a reputable source (engadget, ...).
At this point, we know that the device passes the stress tests inflicted by those
Not sure why Apple fanboys would disagree with this. If you really trust that this device is strong enough to survive this kind of experiment, you should be pushing for this so we definitely close this topic.
I'm going to hang out here till we get a proper response. Wondering if I should camp out.
Jut because you and your sister have the phone and haven't experienced a problem, that doesn't mean others haven't or won't experience problems with the same device under the same or similar conditions.
Using logical fallacies as the foundation of one's foundation is akin to building the foundation of a house on slow moving sand.
Just devil's advocate, but I bet a Ferrari suffers more damage in a 5 MPH wreck than a Nissan. Does that mean Ferrari engineers failed their task?
OMG I can see it now, Samsung will dispatch thousands of teenagers to bend iPhones located in Apple stores. That would be absolutely hilarious. Or better yet, I see a new YouTube trend of kids doing this, then making a YouTube video. Bendgate evolves into Apple Store Bendgate.
Ok so, just to clarify, are people putting their phone in ther backpocket or is the phone actually bending in the front pocket? This just doesnt seems like a conspiracy to me, and the consumer report doesnt deny any of it, in fact they confirm it. You just need 60 pounds 'of pressure to bend the phone in a really bad way (galaxy note needs 150), so I guess you'd only requiere like 30 pounds or less pressure to bend the phone a little. People are complaining that the phone bends slightly, consumer reports is testing how much pressure you need to completly bend the phone, thats not the same thing. They should test how much pressure do you need to just bend the phone a little. I´m a big apple fan but it looks like they blow it.
Ugghhhhh, I can't see the bend, proof you took this photo please? Put a picture of you holding a card with your username on it. Also show more pictures of the bottom and then a video showing us that this phone is an actual iphone. LOL.
Aha, and because It is directed "directly to the YouTube guy" and because the YouTube guy is a liar(?), in reality the phone doesn't bend(?) the article pointing to a possible "weak spot" can't be true and so it is just not possible that there is a "weak spot"? How do you know what the article says doesn't point to a real issue?
For me it's a legit theory and pointing to a real concern, which would also explain why the lab tests of Apple and CR (evenly distributed force) and the "hand beding tests" (force concentrated at one point/side) are showing different results and why it seems to be easier to bend the phone near the volume buttons. The metal reinforcement behind the volume buttons is too short, if the reinforcement would be longer, it would also be harder to deform it there. Can you disprove this hypothesis?
I'd love to know how many window shoppers have had a go trying to bend those in the past day or two!
Yup. You all remember the "issue" with burn in and/or "yellow" screen on the rMini's (I think, or was it the regular Air's?), and people were posting about exchanging something like 4 in a row because they went to check that checkerboard website made to "test" for the issue or stared at a white screen for hours side by side with an Air to try to detect a yellowish tinge? I feel as though this whole bending thing is pretty much equivalent to those occurrences.
If you actually go looking for problems, you will almost certainly find them, whilst the millions and millions of people who don't actually scrutinise their devices at OCD levels will enjoy them to the fullest, blissfully unaware that they have these "fatal manufacturing flaws" and mistakenly believe that they are using a high quality premium product that they are fully satisfied with.
I honestly can't see the bend trying to be illustrated in this video, not that I don't believe it is there, just that I feel it is probably so small as to be virtually unnoticeable to the average user, let alone grounds for a replacement. Similarly, I can't see how JDooker's ruler and phone picture, while it does show an extremely marginal warping that allows a single ray of light to pass through the gap, would ever even have been noticed by a regular user. Is his straight edge 100% straight? (not that it even matters at all, that was completely rhetorical)
This being the second phone this poster is claiming to be replacing (post history here is truly questionable again, just throwing that out there, his last major activity was antenna-gate), maybe he should identify the trend and realise that maybe it isn't the product for him. Seems exactly like the guy who replaced the multiple iPad's for the burn in or yellowing "issue" (probably had a burn in issue with his own retinas trying to detect the "defect"). If you'll remember, all the actual reputable technical testing of the screens then showed that while the Air's screen was in fact technically more colour accurate, the rMini's was still better in this regard tha everything else except the Air. A very similar situation that that we have here with the bending.
It is Apple's own fault really. They are a victim of their own brilliant marketing - their products are held up to a standard no other manufacturer's goods are, and probably with good reason. Too successful, popular, and premium for their own good. Everybody likes to see Goliath fall, nobody cares that David's fourth and fifth toes were webbed...
I've got my 6+ on order, but probably won't get it for several weeks as it is part of a larger corporate role out. I have a history and reputation here as being pro Apple, just look at my post history, and with that said, hope to resurect my Vimeo account for the purpose of cataloguing my phone's progress for the first 4 weeks of use. I'll keep it in my front pocket and my left inner suitcoat pocket as I am used to doing with my 5 now. I'll do a short unboxing, lay it on my coffee table, and do the same once a week for 4 weeks and we'll see if there is any warping. One thing I will not be doing it trying to bend my precious phone with my bare hands!
I fully expect there to be some minute changes that would be all but unnoticeable unless I actually went through this exercise. If those minutae are enough for people to condemn the product, so be it, I'll still love every second I have with mine, I'm sure, and not lose a moment of sleep over the inevitable 1 sec deformation (as in degree, min, sec) in the horizontal plane of my phone.
Should be fun.
Time to sell the stock, this is not going away anytime soon. I think is just a matter of time for the recall.
Nobody is saying on here the phone is unbendable...
Obviously someone went there with the purpose of bending that phone.
Hope they get arrested and prosecuted
Watch, Apple will now need to spend millions of dollars to post iPhone "bend police" at all of their stores to keep sneaky teenagers from bending the phones.
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