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

[rdlink]

Yea, but peoples expensive iPhone are bending in normal day-day use

I can only go by my own experience, but based on my ownership of an iPhone 6 since release day, carrying it in my pockets, both front and back, and sitting, bending, stooping, etc. with it in my pockets, I can tell you this with certainty: It may be that some iPhones are bending, but they are definitely NOT bending in normal day2day use.

 

[Max(IT)]

Thanks for taking the time to show proof. Unfortunately, that's not enough for the Apple fanboys who actually makes my skin crawl. Probably some grown men doing the Apple fawning as well. (shivers)

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Holy crap. Nevermind

What proofs? I only know that an user bent his phone. It could happen. Nobody saying it can't.
But what he did to cause that damage is totally impossible to prove.

 

[Yojimbo007]

There's a lot of talk about "science" from the fanboys here. I've got two master's degrees under my belt, and I'm currently doing a social science PhD. And I've yet to come across anyone in my professional life who would base a scientific claim on such a thing as this video from consumer reports alone.

You know, you should really look up methodology terms like "measurement error" etc. Most scientists know that all experiments and surveys etc can be error-ridden. The best way of finding out what happens is always to try and find the brute facts - not ask people whether they voted in the last election for example, but rather look at the actual voting records in the record books of the state. In this case the brute facts is people's actual usage of the iPhone. If people keep on reporting problems, then it's reasonable to believe that the iPhone has a problem. It's as simple as that. Science and common sense.

Lol.. You are pathetical funny!
The king who yells " hey im thr king "

 

[MEGAB4K3R]

Haha, put four pencils in your pocket, and try to break them. The cardboard idea sounds great and pretty relieving, I'm not too stressed, I have the iPad air, and it's taken a beating too, unscaved too. Apple you still have my confidence.

 

[AlabamaSlammer]

Now with everything going on this gave me a good laugh

 

[subsonix]

The best way of finding out what happens is always to try and find the brute facts - not ask people whether they voted in the last election for example, but rather look at the actual voting records in the record books of the state. In this case the brute facts is people's actual usage of the iPhone. If people keep on reporting problems, then it's reasonable to believe that the iPhone has a problem. It's as simple as that. Science and common sense.

So, in this case we should not ask people if their phones bent, but look at Apple's numbers of returned phones. The numbers that are published so far are 10 million sold phones the first weekend, 9 got reported as having the issue, so that's a "one in a million" problem.

 

[Yojimbo007]

Thanks for taking the time to show proof. Unfortunately, that's not enough for the Apple fanboys who actually makes my skin crawl. Probably some grown men doing the Apple fawning as well. (shivers)

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Holy crap. Nevermind

You have a choice to avoid you skin from crawling.
Take a hike.. Why are you here?
Lol.. Go collect your pay now...

People are you this naive not see see this bogus orchestrated attack !
Wow..
Just go to an apple store and see fir yourselves..
These people are getting paid to spread fud and rumors .
Just go to the store and see..
U dont like it dont buy it ...
Simple
Stop empowering these undignified tactics by the panicked competition !

 

[rGiskard]

Man, the bends just keep coming. I hope I didn't make a mistake going with the 6+

 

[Zetaprime]

It should be obvious that 'bendgate' was something fabricated by one of Apple's competitors in the phone market, maybe Samsung, Motorola, LG, Nokia, or some other, in order to dampen iPhone 6 sales.

 

[rGiskard]

You have a choice to avoid you skin from crawling.
Take a hike.. Why are you here?
Lol.. Go collect your pay now...

People are you this naive not see see this bogus orchestrated attack !
Wow..
Just go to an apple store and see fir yourselves..
These people are getting paid to spread fud and rumors .
Just go to the store and see..
U dont like it dont buy it ...
Simple
Stop empowering these undignified tactics by the panicked competition !

Goes both ways. We could easily say all the fanboyism here is Apple PR in action. Actually I'd be surprised if Apple weren't working the forums on this one.

 

[calzon65]

It should be obvious that 'bendgate' was something fabricated by one of Apple's competitors in the phone market, maybe Samsung, Motorola, LG, Nokia, or some other, in order to dampen iPhone 6 sales.

I doubt many of these conspiracy theories, BUT I am completely confident Apple's competitors are using every waking moment thinking about how they can manipulate and even exacerbate this potential issue to their advantage. That is simply smart business.

 

[parapup]

I just realized this post might have been ironic.. Apologies and please disregard my previous post on this!

No worries. I was trying to be funny. I agree with you fwiw.

 

[Zetaprime]

I doubt many of these conspiracy theories, BUT I am completely confident Apple's competitors are using every waking moment thinking about how they can manipulate and even exacerbate this potential issue to their advantage. That is simply smart business.

This is a world of vicious conniving creatures, human and otherwise. I would put nothing past them.

 

[Yojimbo007]

The only thing that is clear as a daylight after reading this thread is:

The competition is totally panicked!!! So they are fabricating bogus narratives!

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the new iPhones. Nothing!

Go to an apple store and see .
Simple enough?

 

[Derpert]

So much hate and anguish lol

 

[Joelist]

Yea, but peoples expensive iPhone are bending in normal day-day use

There is basically no evidence of this. Only 9 contacts to Apple out of 10 million sold tells that story.

 

[StyxMaker]

I've been wondering if what we are dealing with is not iPhones mysteriously bending in peoples pockets but a small number of iPhones that come out of assembly not quite flat. Perhaps the owners had not set the iPhones down on a flat surface in such a way that it revealed this and assumed, since they had already been carrying the phone and using it, that it happened after they received the iPhone.

 

[DakotaGuy]

There is basically no evidence of this. Only 9 contacts to Apple out of 10 million sold tells that story.

Well it was 9 a few days ago. Who knows now? Anyhow if a person takes care of it I doubt they will have an issue.

 

[Arndroid]

...You're arguing over something no one is arguing about. Not only that, but you start out your post with an attack. Quite silly honestly.

It's not that the video can't be used to show off the iPhone's bendability, it's that the video can't be used to invalidate Unbox's video due to them testing completely different areas of the phone. You even said yourself there could be another test for the weak points. To claim that Unbox faked the video or that dozens of users in this very thread with bent phones are lying because the CR video said it's stable is quite silly.

The unbox video is evidence of nothing. It was not a measured test and we have no way of knowing if the device was doctored in advance. Not to mention it holds no correlation to normal use bending.

There was a drunk guy at a wedding with a slight bend, who else?

 

[Apple_Robert]

At this point, we don't know that there is a design flaw. There very well could be a design flaw. What we do know, is that there have been approximately 10 or so people who have made claims to Apple, that their phones bent, and that Apple is looking into the matter. What we do know, is that the iPhone 6 and 6+ don't take as much force to bend as previous models. What we do know, is that are are videos online showing people bending the iPhone 6+ in a less than normal use fashion (according to the video).

A lot of people are prefacing their argument on the supposition that Apple makes flawless devices. A lot of people are prefacing their argument on the supposition, that Apple has claimed that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ are perfect and incapable of being damaged in the manner that many of us have seen, much less under what is often deemed to be normal wear and tear. Apple has made no such claims.

At this point, I believe it is best to be neutral on this matter,(until we have facts before us) as none of us are in a position to know all the pertinent facts involved in this whole affair (however it ends up playing out).

None of you can speak for Apple nor do you have to defend Apple. Apple (as a corporation) can speak for itself.

 

[vartanarsen]

Came back from the Apple store…I tried to bend 2 pluses, but I couldn't…I guess this means I gotta hit the gym, as its a statement as to my physical state...

 

[Arndroid]

Most of the competitors? Actually only TWO of them (Note 3 and Moto X), while a third very famous is even weaker... And a bend test says a little about durability of a phone, since only torsion resistance is involved, and torsion is the less likely solicitation a phone is going to receive, unless you are doing it on purpose.
That, and your words about how happy you are about negative press, classify you for what you're...

This needs to be emphasized. Of the major issues that face a smartphone that might damage it, bending is way down the list. I guarantee you there have already been ten times as many cracked screens as bent phones since the 6/6 plus launch. Yet the 6 and 6 plus rate very highly on durability by companies that actually have to pay to fix them when they break.

 

[ricci]

"Samsung" I'll get you next time Apple!!!! Curses !

 

[richardsonrs]

Why do you guys automatically go into "you must be a sheep" mode whenever someone disagrees with you? It's so idiotic, and instead of disputing what I'm saying you're resorting to stupid generalizations. If you're unable to hold a conversation without actually disputing what's being said, then don't reply

Again. I can post a picture of a destroyed phone and say "yeah this happened in my front pocket". It means nothing. I asked someone else in this thread and I'll ask you. Why are you dismissing Square Trade and CR's test and blindly believing some pictures that people you don't even know posted on the internet AFTER their phones were already bent?



I like Android on my phone far more than I like iOS. I don't have an iPhone, and don't plan on getting one anytime soon. I just don't go into mass hysterics because the internet told me my phone will bend when i walk around with it in my pocket. No one has shown any proof that their phones bend with normal use. Not a single person. Are you disputing that?



Yes, I understand that. We don't know how it bent in the first place though...

The video demonstrates how it was bent the first and second time. At some point you may possibly just have to trust that it can happen on accident even when used normally. You don't know me so don't act like you can automatically assume I am a liar. That's just a horrid outlook you have.
Honestly you just need to bring yourself down a bit off of that pedestal you have yourself on and act like a normal human..

 

[77CAR]

Must mean I don't exist. In that case no need to worry about my fake bent iPhone

In any case for the benefit of anyone that has a problem I will report back after my genius bar appointment tomorrow.

Apple have agreed to replace my 6+. However there was no stock so they are waiting for some to come in at which point they'll give me a call and I drop in and they will swap on the spot.

At least if this happens to anyone there is a solution. I must say it is good to deal with Apple - way back to the 3G's home button failures they have always replaced hardware for me.

Hopefully these are isolated incidents. Can't remember the home button failures causing this much angst!