Well I would like to try again with a new of the same and just adjust the way I use it in my pocket. Now that I know this is a possible problem. I didn't know before because none of the other 8 iPhones I have had have done anything like this, in the very same uniform pants I have been wearing for 9 years.
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Consumer Reports: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Not as Bendable as Believed
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Well I would like to try again with a new of the same and just adjust the way I use it in my pocket. Now that I know this is a possible problem. I didn't know before because none of the other 8 iPhones I have had have done anything like this, in the very same uniform pants I have been wearing for 9 years.
Even though my iPhone 5 is in an Otterbox Defender case, I always put the phone in my front pocket with the screen facing towards me just in case...
I was thinking about the same thing. I assume most people would place the glass facing their body. So I would think sitting down would bend the phone in the opposite direction of the videos and tests we have seen.
Thanks for posting that.
When you bent it the second time, was it the same as the first like one would expect it to be if the orientation was the same? I'm curious if the results between top/bottom first would make much of a difference.
Pls don't take the voice of what appears to be a nazi-fan as representing the rest of humanity, being apple-fans or any other smart-phone fan.
That guys is just sick, nothing more..
I saw a skinny guy break this thing with is bare hands applying very little force. This is bs.
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.
Snaky teenagers? If that's what you call them. But anyway, in the United kingdom, purposly damaging somebody's property is a criminal offecnce, therefore against the law, therefore Apple has all the right to protect it.
You get arrested if you deliberately destroy the property in other stores, why would Apple be different?
This is what you said: "Its not about the video guy, but about this..."
When in fact it's the exact same thing, with an attempt at an explanation, still speculatively since no additional tests are done. It's an analysis of that very YouTube clip.
How do you know that it does, that's not the point. YouTube guy demonstrates that it's possible to bend an iPhone with your hands given enough force (true for many small electronic devices). CR and Apple shows that it's likely not going to be an issue under normal use.
Either it is legit or it isn't, it can't be legit "to you". The details are speculations on what may well have happened, but it's not that interesting because no tests are involved at all, so it's one guys theory.
We are at 63 pages and folks are still making things up.
Show me video of the phone bending under normal use.
Not one that's already bent. Or one that's bent under unnatural conditions.
Put it in your pocket, do normal things like walk around sit and stand. Pull bent phone out of pocket.
Otherwise it's all moot.
Show me video of the phone bending under normal use.
Not one that's already bent. Or one that's bent under unnatural conditions.
Put it in your pocket, do normal things like walk around sit and stand. Pull bent phone out of pocket.
Otherwise it's all moot.
As much as I wish this were true, I seriously doubt it's a bad batch issue. I have an iPhone 5S and was going to upgrade to the 6 (not the plus) but I'm going to hold off a few weeks to see how this issue flushes out, I have to wait anyway because the model/color iPhone 6 I want it out of stock.
I've caught this guy lying!
There's no way that phone would have a bend in that corner from the situation he showed us on the video.
It's all in the physics...
I think I met that guy at the fair.
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I've always put the display facing my body.
Hm, i'm not sure about that. Each phone can have a different weak spot, a part where it bends or breaks most easily. Just applying the pressure in the center of all of them and see at which pressure they bend (without recovering later) or break, well, that only tells one at which pressure all of them bend or break when that pressure is applied to the center.
When some phones have their weaker body shell parts in other places, like more towards the top or bottom, it would make more sense to apply the test in the center, then more towards the top and then more towards the bottom, on all phones, to be able to say, yes, these phones already bend or break at much lower pressure when the pressure is applied in their weaker parts.
Please Apple, or someone else, if you really want to put our minds at ease (and not just witewash the device for sales or on other end by other people gain youtube clicks), just show the same test on several phones where you then apply that pressure in the area of the volume buttons. Showing us the fancy lab where it is applied just to the center doesn't prove much and after watching several videos doing exactly the same thing no matter if by Apple, consumer reports or someone else, i wonder just as much as at the beginning how much truth there is to it bending easily when one hits it at the weak spot of around where the spaker buttons area.
Excellent.
Man uses Nazi propaganda to try to explain how powerful mis-truth can be and then gets called a Nazi for his efforts.
This thread is like a dark episode of spongebob. Please keep up the excellent work
Now if Mr Squatter had his phone sticking out of pocket other load conditions would apply and there would be a bending moment in that point
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Broken sarcasm dedector?
Oh no - we're on the same page. I'm just adding to your efforts.
LOL. Had my Galaxy S5 active with me in Iraq. Had it in my holster jumping through windows, jumping out of airplanes, it took a bullet and saved my life twice. We threw it at IEDs and saved countless lives and a tank even ran over it. Brought it home and took it too sea world where one of the sharks got a hold of it when it fell in the tank. He swam around all day chewing on it before he pooped it out. I used it to chop down an old tree in my front yard and used it to hold my truck on the hill when the brakes went bad. Even used it to pry open the calipers on that truck when I fixed the brakes. Still not a scratch. Try that with an iphone.
You win this entire epic thread. Well done.
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