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

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JTravers said:
Will be interesting to see how this plays out over time. Will it die down like Antenna-gate, or will videos of bending phones keep appearing on YouTube :rolleyes:
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As long as anything negative headline that is Apple related is click bait and there are idiots willing to click, there will be videos on Youtube; the people posting are making easy money, so why not continue posting.

BTW, there has also been videos of people getting kicked in the balls on camera, skaboarding off cliffs, for money...

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scaredpoet said:
"“I plugged the phone in to charge overnight, and nothing was amiss,” Latiolais tells GeekWire. “I’d been taking a lot of photos and was so paranoid about hurting my brand new phone that I kept it in my coat pocket or hand all night. When I got home, I propped the phone against the wall to charge overnight. When I pulled it off the charger in the morning, it was bent along the angle it leaned on the wall. It’s almost as if it sagged. In fact, looking closely at it … I can see it’s not so much bent as curved, rounded almost.”"

So my question: Who charges their phone like this?

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Sorry, story smells fishy.
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If you believe this story, you are a total absolute idiot. The pressure on the phone is very very very very very slight. BTW, I recharge my phone in that position, not against a wall though, quite often.

Considering the idiots wandering the internet, I have no doubt they'll believe it and run with it. That's were we are at online. The Trolls have infested the Internet and made any rational discourse impossible.
 
Keirasplace said:
If you believe this story, you are a total absolute idiot. The pressure on the phone is very very very very very slight. BTW, I recharge my phone in that position, not against a wall though, quite often.
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Okay, well so much for that. :p But still, if someone was truly that paranoid about bending their phone, I would think the last thing they would do, if they had any common sense, would be to lean it facing upside down against a wall, on the floor/carpet. Anyone could come by and accidentally kick or step on it. Even if he lived alone, the chance would still be there that HE could accidentally kick/step/stumble on it, and there goes the phone.

I'll admit, I'm super-paranoid about potentially bending my phone too. maybe I shouldn't be, but I can't say I'm immune to the effects of all this hype. So what I do when I charge? I don't lean it like that! I place it flat on a sturdy table. On top of a lot of padding. A LOT. Of Padding... :cool:
 
scaredpoet said:
Okay, well so much for that. :p But still, if someone was truly that paranoid about bending their phone, I would think the last thing they would do, if they had any common sense, would be to lean it facing upside down against a wall, on the floor/carpet. Anyone could come by and accidentally kick or step on it. Even if he lived alone, the chance would still be there that HE could accidentally kick/step/stumble on it, and there goes the phone.

I'll admit, I'm super-paranoid about potentially bending my phone too. maybe I shouldn't be, but I can't say I'm immune to the effects of all this hype. So what I do when I charge? I don't lean it like that! I place it flat on a sturdy table. On top of a lot of padding. A LOT. Of Padding... :cool:
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I pile bricks on top of mine, because, you know, flat.
 
scaredpoet said:
"“I plugged the phone in to charge overnight, and nothing was amiss,” Latiolais tells GeekWire. “I’d been taking a lot of photos and was so paranoid about hurting my brand new phone that I kept it in my coat pocket or hand all night. When I got home, I propped the phone against the wall to charge overnight. When I pulled it off the charger in the morning, it was bent along the angle it leaned on the wall. It’s almost as if it sagged. In fact, looking closely at it … I can see it’s not so much bent as curved, rounded almost.”"

So my question: Who charges their phone like this?

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Sorry, story smells fishy.
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That person cannot afford a cheap side table :cool:
 
This has got to be the most stup ID thread ever.

Apple should not sell their gears to idiots that bend iPhones.
 
Max(IT) said:
It most likely was you sitting ON it... By the way good luck with your replacement
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Nope, sorry, it wasn't. I know because I only owned the phone for four days before it bent. This and I have never placed an iPhone in my back pocket, ever.

Again - most likely explanation is that it bent in my front pocket from sitting down repeatedly. And again - this never happened to my 3G, 4, 4S, 5 or 5S under the same pattern of usage.

Deny away however I present facts here, that's all I do. Cue sceptics attacks.
 
77CAR said:
Deny away however I present facts here, that's all I do. Cue sceptics attacks.
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Maybe you do, and believe me, if it happened to me then that's all the proof I need to ask to get it replaced. The reason I'm skeptical is because there are conflicting stories here, Consumer Report's testing and Apple's demonstration vs random people on the Internet. Add to that all the other "gates" that has shown up earlier years which typically have been way overblown in retrospect. Is the iPhone flawed, I don't know, but I don't think so.. We'll see.
 
subsonix said:
Maybe you do, and believe me, if it happened to me then that's all the proof I need to ask to get it replaced. The reason I'm skeptical is because there are conflicting stories here, Consumer Report's testing and Apple's demonstration vs random people on the Internet. Add to that all the other "gates" that has shown up earlier years which typically have been way overblown in retrospect. Is the iPhone flawed, I don't know, but I don't think so.. We'll see.
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Fair response subsonix, I think you summed the situation up well.
 
Too much noise about nothing

I don't understand this discussion.
If you like the iPhone, buy it (I did).
If you have any concern, don't buy.

In case you bought it and a problem occurs, go to Apple and ask them to fix it.
They will do it as they did it with some of my previous devices.
I got one iPhone changed after one year when a problem with the home button occurred.
And I got a new MacBook Pro after 1,5 years when some small problems occurred.
Apple is not perfect at all. But they are nearly perfect for me.
And service is absolutely without any question.
 
Apple won't fix a bend iPhone 6/+ unless you pay them 379$ (79$ with Apple Care).

@ I am Andy: My post got lost in the Bentgate Video Discussion. Apple won't fix a bend iPhone 6/+ unless you pay them 379$ (79$ with Apple Care). New guarantee policy: http://imgur.com/gallery/CSSfH

Appe Care Support Senior Advisor: "... Our engineers have researched and inspected many devices and have come to the conclusion that a bend to the iPhone 6 Plus is not eligible for replacement under standard 1 year warranty. The iPhone did not encounter the bend on its own. So this is why we only have the option to replace it for 79$."
 
Max(IT) said:
You are right but they are not even going to read your post, unless you make a video ripping an iPhone apart. Then you'll be their personal hero :D
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That and I spent way too much money on my iPhone to WANT to break it. If Samsung will purchase me an iPhone for the purpose of me doing a bend test video then I'll gladly take one and show people how difficult they are to break. I want the money AND the phone first Samsung/Google!!
 
What gets me, regardless of any supposed engineering faults or incorrect device handling. Don't you guys have anything better to do than spew hate toward other strangers(excluding the civilized commenters of course) all while hiding behind a keyboard, over a glorified hunk of metal?

The worst part is that the vast majority of all of you don't really have the background required to give an intelligent FACT based debate (again excluding those with engineering background or similar).

All in all this is just amusing, seeing the hoards of of people reading extremely too deep into independent testing (Conspiracy theories, really?...:rolleyes:), then throwing insults all over the place. I am not defending either side, the apple fans or the other people here that just want fuel the fire.

There IS clearly evidence that both phones given the right circumstances can bend. And it doesn't really look like this is going to just go away. All we can do is just go on our merry way and enjoy our devices for what they are (iP6+ here), and if there truly is an issue there will likely be a recall.

BUT in the mean time, like my awesome mother used to always tell me....

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AND for those of you who just can't go on living life without incessantly spewing hate.

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I never doubt Apple Built Quality

Some are even dense enough to say that the phone is made of aluminum. Well, if they use their brains a little bit more, even cars engineered like tanks have aluminum parts. They probably are driving one too, so maybe they will try to bend their cars too. Wouldn't that be fun, lets try to snap the Mercedes S Class, the Audi A8, and the Acura NSX in half.
 
tiramisubomb said:
Some are even dense enough to say that the phone is made of aluminum. Well, if they use their brains a little bit more, even cars engineered like tanks have aluminum parts. They probably are driving one too, so maybe they will try to bend their cars too. Wouldn't that be fun, lets try to snap the Mercedes S Class, the Audi A8, and the Acura NSX in half.
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My current car is made of a large percentage of aluminum, and it's in my opinion the most torsionally/laterally stiff car I have ever driven(which isn't saying much, but I digress).

I also recently read an article on the new 2015 Ford F-150 Which has an all aluminum body including the bed. They did blind testing with the new aluminum beds on a few 2014 F-150's at mines and quarries and the only thing the drivers noticed was better fuel economy (ie no damage or extra wear from the change to aluminium). While this isn't exactly a comparison to the use of aluminum in the new iPhones, it still shows that the metal can have high stress applications.

And IIRC the iPhone 6 uses a 6000 series alloy of some sort, which was picked by apple exclusively for this application.
 
cmaier said:
Reminded me of a time at work when I overheard one engineer arguing with another. The first engineer says "well, I have a Ph.D. to back up MY opinion."

It sounded so ludicrous that I swore right then I'd never mention any of my advanced degrees to try and win an argument.
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Nah. For me, it's usually quite useful to know whether the one Im discussing with has any experience or experience in the field we're discussing. When people here say they are mechanical engineers, I listen to their claims a bit more when they discuss the technicalities of the iPhone (with good reason, I would say). In my case, its not about my "advanced degrees", but rather that I've actually been working with questions relating to the scientific status of claims for a rather long time. This actually lends some credibility to my claim in this specific area. I would never (and have never) bring up my education in areas where it's not relevant (my education doesn't give me any special insight into the technical parts of this discussion, for example).
 
Chupa Chupa said:
You must have missed your science class the day of the lecture about how a scientifically significant test is conducted. If something happens once that's an event not a scientificly-made conclusion.

I don't know if there is a design flaw in the plus or not, but your above description is not a test.
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That guy showed this phenomena again and again.
Would you put your iPhone 6 plus for regular bend test? After all you trust apple lab tests, no?
 
Relax, this little issue can be fixed easily. Nothing to worry about ;)
 

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