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Actually, 9-10 reports.

There were similar reports with comparable numbers of people that got phones with dead pixels, dust under the screen, screen abnormalities, etc.

All within just a couple of days.

I don't understand why you feel that you should extrapolate a massive widespread problem regarding the bending, and not those problems.

Again, bending is not a new complaint when it comes to the iphone. People have complained about it since the iPhone 4, which was a much thicker, heavier stainless steel/glass construction.

If you are going to worry about bending, you might as well worry about shattering glass from drops, because after handling this phone, I would say I am much more likely to drop it than to bend it.

Curious: you are so adamant there is a bending problem: do you own the phone? Have you used it for days? Have you even handled the phone in your hands?

Every honest iphone 6/6+ owner knows it is a solid phone.

Just go handle the phone and report back if you think it will bend under normal use.

77Car claims to own both an iPhone 6 and 6+. The 6+ seems to have a slight bend. Someone asked him to show a photo beside a slip of paper with his username on it. He did. I realize that we would be taking him at his word, but he seems legit... I'm just saying'.

I agree with everything else though.:)
 
K I gotta put my two cents in.....Watched CR's video...never been a huge fan of theirs, but its ok, and the other video shown inside Apple's testing facility was always ok. It shows durability testing, meant for real life everyday use! The tests don't check off for those who take phones and simply try to bend them with their hands on purpose. I am still curious how many "TRUE" reports of bent iphone 6 plus bent phones are truly out there, probably more than 9...maybe a 100, maybe a 1000, maybe not, I don't know. I will admit I was a little concerned at first. I had a Incipio hybrid case on damn that was on tight!!! I like to take my cases off to clean my phones once a week or so. It was also too bulky. This is my first iphone since the 4S. I had many large phones since, including the Note, Note 2, Note 3 (for one day and returned it, thought it was garbage!) I just sold my Oneplus One and that felt cheap to me, bezels would chip in cases. I also had the HTC One M8. The reason that probably won't bend as well in that rods videos is because the screen would crack and break prior to it bending, he stopped bending it once it made a noise. I also had the Nokia 1520 (6" phone). I am used to having slim protective case on my phones and also keep them in my front pockets and I have a car dock. So when I saw the video of the guy bending the phone, I was wondering "What the hell? How am I going to get this case off without it bending?" Thursday, I went to a number of stores, ATT, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Apple looking for cases, none reported any returned 6 plusses. I struggled to take off that damn hybrid case and was scared to look, but once I got it off, the phone was perfect, not bent at all! Straight as an arrow I went back and also watched the stress test video on youtube where a company compacted I believe it was 100lbs of pressure on the phone and then it bent a little. I know the weak spot is around the volume button, that is obvious, when I watched the rod again bend the phone and then bend it in Canada lol Canada lol....You can tell he is especially in the first video applying pressure near the volume rocker IMO, I could be wrong, in the second video, he just bends it as fast and hard as he can, that's it! He knows his 15 min. of fame are about up so he is going to keep doing this! Now comparing the phone to the Moto X, which is garbage IMO, if you want a pure android phone, get a Nexus or Oneplus for now...he tries to bend it and what a shock it doesn't bend! Why? Smaller phone, thicker, back is much thicker, made of plastic!! Its comparing (no pun intended) apples to oranges. He is just in love with the phone! I say put this crap to rest, enjoy your phone, don't put it in your back pocket!! I didn't even know people did that!!! That is asking for trouble! Any phone could break with force in the back pocket! The tests Apple and the others are doing are meant for daily real life living conditions! When you are currently the number 1 selling smartphone and have 2 to 3 week backorder, a course people will hate, you will have enemies when you're on top....but its a phone! So remember that and enjoy it! I am done with bendgate unless something crazy happens!!! Bye bye for now!

I'm going to say it, best post I've read today! Thank You!:cool:

Today I saw a young lady come in to the Pizza joint my wife & kids were at today and noticed as she walked by and she had a phone in back pocket, so I
watched her go to sit and just before she sat down out came a 6Plus and sat it on table without case. I had to do it, I asked her if she heard about the bent iPhones, yes I have she said with a chuckle. I asked if she was worried about it, she laughed again said no. I'm going to go out on the lim here and say, I think this will be the most common answer from random people that own the iPhone 6 Plus.
 
77Car claims to own both an iPhone 6 and 6+. The 6+ seems to have a slight bend. Someone asked him to show a photo beside a slip of paper with his username on it. He did. I realize that we would be taking him at his word, but he seems legit... I'm just saying'.

I agree with everything else though.:)

If someone actually owns the 6+ and has a complaint, I have no problem with that.

I just think a lot of people are basing their opinion off of a few videos they saw without ever handled the actual phone.

If I saw the video, and never held the iphone 6+, i'd probably have the impression it was as malleable as an empty can of coke.

All the owners know that is not the truth.

A few people have always had a problem with bent phones.

Nearly all phones can bend if you try hard enough, and apply force/torque in the right way (applying pressure at a very precise point with a grip that applies opposite torque at the edges of the phone).

The thing is, when are you ever going to do this in real life with your phone?

Again: if you think the phone bending is a problem, screen shattering is as big, if not a much bigger problem. But that is just an accepted consequence of your negligence.

Personally, I don't see the phone bending in my pocket under normal use. For one, I don't keep a pair of thumbs in there applying pressure just beneath the volume buttons. If it does, I will agree with you all that there is a design defect and Apple should address it.
 
people keeping saying "numerous" people are reporting bent phones.... but where are they???

If they keep talking about 9 or 10 reported issues enough that magically turns it into hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Maybe they iPhone 6 will be proven to not withstand day to day use. Right now, the reality is there are only a handful of unsubstantiated claims. Time will tell.
 
If someone actually owns the 6+ and has a complaint, I have no problem with that.

I just think a lot of people are basing their opinion off of a few videos they saw without ever handled the actual phone.

If I saw the video, and never held the iphone 6+, i'd probably have the impression it was as malleable as an empty can of coke.

All the owners know that is not the truth.

A few people have always had a problem with bent phones.

Agreed. It's odd that the most vocal detractors have zero experience with the phone. They simply saw a video that some random guy posted on YouTube and decided it was a good day for a witch hunt. It's crazy really.:rolleyes:
 
Agreed. It's odd that the most vocal detractors have zero experience with the phone. They simply saw a video that some random guy posted on YouTube and decided it was a good day for a witch hunt. It's crazy really.:rolleyes:

Nonsense. I can testify first hand that based on the video I watched it bends easily. So there you have it. Now there are 11 claims.
 
1) the video shows a bent iphone ( very very slightly ) but honestly we don't know in which condition, we could trust the user and think it was just his front pocket, but it could be more than that.

2)the theory about bending phones is total ********. the load diagram is totally wrong in the second scenario (there should be many many peaks, because the momentum must be taken in its absolute value)


the Momentum diagrams show just the reason why the phone breaks in that 'weak point' and why the break point of the lab could be located in a different position ( in the middle )

So in the end it s the amount of force to decide the break, the momentum diagram generally just shows where it occurs. Of course the lab test misses the weakest point, but still the video test shows un unrealistic use of force ( if u want to break it it breaks )

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You have absolutely no idea what your saying.
 
Agreed. It's odd that the most vocal detractors have zero experience with the phone. They simply saw a video that some random guy posted on YouTube and decided it was a good day for a witch hunt. It's crazy really.:rolleyes:

If it were true,the Internet would be flooded with pictures of bent iPhones and news outlets would be doing story after story!:cool:
 
K I gotta put my two cents in.....Watched CR's video...never been a huge fan of theirs, but its ok, and the other video shown inside Apple's testing facility was always ok. It shows durability testing, meant for real life everyday use! The tests don't check off for those who take phones and simply try to bend them with their hands on purpose. I am still curious how many "TRUE" reports of bent iphone 6 plus bent phones are truly out there, probably more than 9...maybe a 100, maybe a 1000, maybe not, I don't know. I will admit I was a little concerned at first. I had a Incipio hybrid case on damn that was on tight!!! I like to take my cases off to clean my phones once a week or so. It was also too bulky. This is my first iphone since the 4S. I had many large phones since, including the Note, Note 2, Note 3 (for one day and returned it, thought it was garbage!) I just sold my Oneplus One and that felt cheap to me, bezels would chip in cases. I also had the HTC One M8. The reason that probably won't bend as well in that rods videos is because the screen would crack and break prior to it bending, he stopped bending it once it made a noise. I also had the Nokia 1520 (6" phone). I am used to having slim protective case on my phones and also keep them in my front pockets and I have a car dock. So when I saw the video of the guy bending the phone, I was wondering "What the hell? How am I going to get this case off without it bending?" Thursday, I went to a number of stores, ATT, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Apple looking for cases, none reported any returned 6 plusses. I struggled to take off that damn hybrid case and was scared to look, but once I got it off, the phone was perfect, not bent at all! Straight as an arrow I went back and also watched the stress test video on youtube where a company compacted I believe it was 100lbs of pressure on the phone and then it bent a little. I know the weak spot is around the volume button, that is obvious, when I watched the rod again bend the phone and then bend it in Canada lol Canada lol....You can tell he is especially in the first video applying pressure near the volume rocker IMO, I could be wrong, in the second video, he just bends it as fast and hard as he can, that's it! He knows his 15 min. of fame are about up so he is going to keep doing this! Now comparing the phone to the Moto X, which is garbage IMO, if you want a pure android phone, get a Nexus or Oneplus for now...he tries to bend it and what a shock it doesn't bend! Why? Smaller phone, thicker, back is much thicker, made of plastic!! Its comparing (no pun intended) apples to oranges. He is just in love with the phone! I say put this crap to rest, enjoy your phone, don't put it in your back pocket!! I didn't even know people did that!!! That is asking for trouble! Any phone could break with force in the back pocket! The tests Apple and the others are doing are meant for daily real life living conditions! When you are currently the number 1 selling smartphone and have 2 to 3 week backorder, a course people will hate, you will have enemies when you're on top....but its a phone! So remember that and enjoy it! I am done with bendgate unless something crazy happens!!! Bye bye for now!

Good post and I agree. I just wish you broke your novel down into some smaller paragraphs for easier reading. It's all about digestible bites my friend. ;)
 
Agreed. It's odd that the most vocal detractors have zero experience with the phone. They simply saw a video that some random guy posted on YouTube and decided it was a good day for a witch hunt. It's crazy really.:rolleyes:

You know what is really crazy? And I absolutely hate to attribute so much power to a guy that is one step removed from being paparazzi, but:

Bendgate actually caused a huge drop in the NASDAQ the last trading week. The entire NASDAQ dropped with AAPL leading the fall, and there were no external catalysts besides Bendgate.

GOOG still has not recovered despite most tech companies making a comeback.

A lot of people got hurt, and billions in market cap was lost for a lot of innocent players.

All based on sensationalism and speculation.
 
CR is right up there with them political clowns the FDA.
Sc** CR!

Big deal, I don't recommend reading Consumer Reports because the reviews may be unbalanced.

nobody care Consumer Reports. what pedestal are you standing on that makes you soooo good??????

go figure, I never listen to consumer reports anyway......grandma's and 50+ yr olds do.

I don't recommend Consumer Reports.

;)
 
You know what is really crazy? And I absolutely hate to attribute so much power to a guy that is one step removed from being paparazzi, but:

Bendgate actually caused a huge drop in the NASDAQ the last trading week. The entire NASDAQ dropped with AAPL leading the fall, and there were no external catalysts besides Bendgate.

GOOG still has not recovered despite most tech companies making a comeback.

A lot of people got hurt, and billions in market cap was lost for a lot of innocent players.

All based on sensationalism and speculation.

Not to mention that guy made some serious coin too. Don't think that people haven't noticed.
 
I would think the pocket could not possibly duplicate that much pounds of force no matter how tight your skinny jeans are.

The backward cap kid is a loser who appealed to losers that think apple is doomed. He made his money getting the losers to view his video and reshare it and make stupid memes and hashtags.

MR made money posting articles so the losers could pretend it was a real issue lol.

Gotta feel bad for the losers! MR and backwards hat kid saw them coming a mile away. Smart business.

The world isn't all a conspiracy. Lew actually likes apple, I mean seriously. In the description of the bent uncut video, he says he bought a 12-core Mac Pro. He uses iPhones quite a lot, if you even watched his videos before this bent gate fiasco.

This man could actually be cashing in on a problem that is respectable? No way.
 
The Germans tried it too. Here the weak part seems again to be the spot just below the volume controls.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DcUASffHU


Notice he really had to work hard to get a small bend into the phone. At first pushing so hard his fingers trembled. After pushing on it three or so times he had a small bend in the phone.

What I find to be more amazing is him then pushing on the screen to straighten the iPhone without breaking the screen. That screen seems to be amazingly durable.
 
Let's keep in mind Unbox therapy claims that while the iPhone 6+ is extremely easy to bend, that the iPhone was nearly impossible (or at least much harder to do so). But the Consumer Reports test found the opposite, in that it took 20lbs less force to bend the 6.

Furthermore, the 6 and HTC One M8 were the weakest phones here. And yet, I hear no clamoring over HTC making ****. If anything, the M8 is heralded as being a great phone (and I agree).

Also note that M8 is much thicker than the 6, despite being just as prone to bending.

Can anyone provide a rough translation of the German bend test? All I understood was "Kaput" lol.
 
I like the Evutec Karbon case I purchased at the Apple store for my iPHone 5S. Depending on how this "bendgate" thing develops and after Evutec comes out with a similar iPhone 6 case, I will decide about the iPhone 6..
 
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