Has the bending thing died down?

[Jayson A]

The phone is "trying to shap itself to the curvature of [your] leg." Shape ITSELF. That's really your position here? And you expect anyone to take that seriously??

If you really can't figure out what I mean, I'll break it down Barney style to you.

The pants stretch over the phone and since the phone is a straight piece of metal and my leg is curved, the pants (when tightnened from sitting down) cause pressure to the phone. The phone has nowhere to go except to be pushed into my leg. Have you never tried wrapping something that is flat and bendable to something that is curved?

I thought you could figure it out on your own, but I guess you can't.

I'm not saying that it warps within minutes of being in my pocket, but days and weeks of putting light pressure on it in the same spot, the phone eventually starts to gradually shape to my leg EVER SO SLIGHTLY.

It's only a couple of thousands of an inch warped, but that doesn't change the fact that it IS warped. Do you get it now?

Sitting still on a desk doesn't change the shape. Holding it lightly doesn't change the shape. Being in a pocket with light pressure on it against a rounded surface is the only way that MY iPhone could be getting twisted.

 

[McDaddio]

If you really can't figure out what I mean, I'll break it down Barney style to you.

. The phone has nowhere to go except to be pushed into my leg. Have you never tried wrapping something that is flat and bendable to something that is curved?


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You are really funny!
I tried wrapping a pen around a hotdog and it didn't work! Seems the hot dog was bending a lot more that the pen would

Since Your leg is so hard that your can wrap a phone around it, how do you walk?!

If you are thinking Barney-style, you will keep coming up with this childish examples.

Try again.

 

[Jayson A]

You are really funny!
I tried wrapping a pen around a hotdog and it didn't work! Seems the hot dog was bending a lot more that the pen would

Since Your leg is so hard that your can wrap a phone around it, how do you walk?!

If you are thinking Barney-style, you will keep coming up with this childish examples.

Try again.

My leg is not a hot dog. Try again.

 

[McDaddio]

My leg is not a hot dog. Try again.

I didn't say it was

But okay, my pen did not bend when I tried to wrap it around a turkey leg.

Your Barney-like thinking that your leg is strong enough and doesn't give to be an effective fulcrum point is naive and amusing.

 

[Surf Monkey]

You're the one who flat out said that the phone was "trying to shape itself" to your leg. Adopting a condescending tone doesn't make the absurdity of that comment evaporate and disappear.

As far as your "explanation" goes, I simply don't buy it. Try applying repeated light pressure to a nail and see if it ever twists or bends. Light pressure isn't what's causing your twist or other peoples' bends. It doesn't work like that. If it did then every iPhone out there would be bent or twisted. It has to experience enough force input all at once to become damaged. It isn't a situation where it accumulates over time.

If you really can't figure out what I mean, I'll break it down Barney style to you.

The pants stretch over the phone and since the phone is a straight piece of metal and my leg is curved, the pants (when tightnened from sitting down) cause pressure to the phone. The phone has nowhere to go except to be pushed into my leg. Have you never tried wrapping something that is flat and bendable to something that is curved?

I thought you could figure it out on your own, but I guess you can't.

I'm not saying that it warps within minutes of being in my pocket, but days and weeks of putting light pressure on it in the same spot, the phone eventually starts to gradually shape to my leg EVER SO SLIGHTLY.

It's only a couple of thousands of an inch warped, but that doesn't change the fact that it IS warped. Do you get it now?

Sitting still on a desk doesn't change the shape. Holding it lightly doesn't change the shape. Being in a pocket with light pressure on it against a rounded surface is the only way that MY iPhone could be getting twisted.

 

[wxman2003]

My leg is not a hot dog. Try again.

Your leg is not solid like the phone, unless you have no muscle, skin or fat in your legs and your phone is flat up against bone. But if you do have muscle, skin and fat in your thigh area, then guess what will flex when you place a solid object against it and then try and sit. The muscle, skin and fat will move and bend, not the phone. While sitting, push your finger into your thigh area and notice how much you can make the muscle, skin, etc, move. in fact the thigh muscle is in more of a relaxed position while sitting compared to standing when it is more rigid to help support the weight of your body on the bones.

 

[Jayson A]

Your leg is not solid like the phone, unless you have no muscle, skin or fat in your legs and your phone is flat up against bone. But if you do have muscle, skin and fat in your thigh area, then guess what will flex when you place a solid object against it and then try and sit. The muscle, skin and fat will move and bend, not the phone. While sitting, push your finger into your thigh area and notice how much you can make the muscle, skin, etc, move. in fact the thigh muscle is in more of a relaxed position while sitting compared to standing when it is more rigid to help support the weight of your body on the bones.

Yes my leg has some give to it, but my phone still becomes twisted over time. My iPhone hasn't bent in the long direction yet at all, but my pocket is the only place where my iPhone is being subject to force. Otherwise, I'm just holding lightly in my hands while typing.

I don't keep it in my pocket for prolonged periods like long car rides (in fact, I take it out of my pocket while in any vehicle or when I'm sitting down in general).

So, how else is it getting twisted? Sometimes when I'm walking, my phone turns horizontal in my pocket, causing more leverage for the phone to bend with. I try not to let it go sideways, but I can't look at my pocket at all times.

If you can think of another reason other than my pocket/leg combo, then let me know. Otherwise, that's the cause here. You're right, the iPhone doesn't BEND on ITS OWN and that's why I believe the phone is being subjected to pressure in my front pocket.

 

[jpeg42]

I'm disinclined to dole out hit count to someone's YouTube account. Furthermore, one YouTube video is unlikely to prove a widespread trend.

Here, I made it easy for you since you won't give out internet hit counts:

If refuse to believe this type of twisting could happen in a pocket, then you are in complete denial.

 

[davidb8]

Had my 6 plus about 9 hours now and have noticed a slight bend, or a twist in the body of the phone. Quite hard to get a picture to show it. A couple of people I have shown have agreed and said they see it.

It arrived this morning and I have barley used it. It must have been shipped like this as I can't even think of any minimal pressure being put on it!!!!

It's shocking! I thought all these people with bent phones were being stupid but now i see what the fuss is about.

 

[McDaddio]

Your leg is not solid like the phone, unless you have no muscle, skin or fat in your legs and your phone is flat up against bone. But if you do have muscle, skin and fat in your thigh area, then guess what will flex when you place a solid object against it and then try and sit. The muscle, skin and fat will move and bend, not the phone. While sitting, push your finger into your thigh area and notice how much you can make the muscle, skin, etc, move. in fact the thigh muscle is in more of a relaxed position while sitting compared to standing when it is more rigid to help support the weight of your body on the bones.

That is exactly the point.

Add to that two things.
1. Some silly people keep referring to the thigh as acting as a fulcrum. But there is a huge difference in the amount of force required if there is a specific point of the fulcrum, vs the fulcrum is stretched out over the entire length of the phone. Take a pencil and try to break it by having using as a fulcrum an object that is the same length of the pencil and softer than the pencil. Not so easy.
2. If you are still bending your phone given the softness of the fulcrum and the amount of force required since the point of the fulcrum is across the entire phone, and you don't notice that amount of force, you are oblivious and are probably doing other things that damage your phone.

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Here, I made it easy for you since you won't give out internet hit counts:

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If refuse to believe this type of twisting could happen in a pocket, then you are in complete denial.

If you knew anything about physics and mechanics you would know the difference and wouldn't be in denial.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Had my 6 plus about 9 hours now and have noticed a slight bend, or a twist in the body of the phone. Quite hard to get a picture to show it. A couple of people I have shown have agreed and said they see it.

It arrived this morning and I have barley used it. It must have been shipped like this as I can't even think of any minimal pressure being put on it!!!!

It's shocking! I thought all these people with bent phones were being stupid but now i see what the fuss is about.

That's a common element in a number of these reports.

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If refuse to believe this type of twisting could happen in a pocket, then you are in complete denial.

Spicing up your rhetoric by attributing arguments to me that I never made doesn't solidify your position. I never said that things can't bend in pockets. A pocket is just a location. All sorts of unspeakable things can happen in pockets. Since I never said anything like "phones can't bend or twist in pockets" your charge that I'm "in complete denial" is nonsense.

 

[Jayson A]

That's a common element in a number of these reports.

That's not true either. Mine has twisted more than once and I've only had the same phone.

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That's a common element in a number of these reports.

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Spicing up your rhetoric by attributing arguments to me that I never made doesn't solidify your position. I never said that things can't bend in pockets. A pocket is just a location. All sorts of unspeakable things can happen in pockets. Since I never said anything like "phones can't bend or twist in pockets" your charge that I'm "in complete denial" is nonsense.

So you agree that the pocket is a location where the iPhone bends. Also, the iPhone 6 is not too big for a pocket, and it should be able to be carried in a pocket since its a mobile phone. Mobile meaning that it's meant to be traveled with. Leaving it on tables and counters hinders it's usefulness.

 

[jpeg42]

Spicing up your rhetoric by attributing arguments to me that I never made doesn't solidify your position. I never said that things can't bend in pockets. A pocket is just a location. All sorts of unspeakable things can happen in pockets. Since I never said anything like "phones can't bend or twist in pockets" your charge that I'm "in complete denial" is nonsense.

You are exhausting.

"All sorts of unspeakable things can happen in pockets."

Perhaps you are on to something. Those with bent phones have bigger things getting in the way. Says something that yours is not bent, huh?

Edit: Its a joke SM, don't get all bent up over it..... lol.

 

[Surf Monkey]

That's not true either. Mine has twisted more than once and I've only had the same phone.

It is true. We've seen at least a half dozen people with out of the box bends. Back off of the lying charges.

So you agree that the pocket is a location where the iPhone bends. Also, the iPhone 6 is not too big for a pocket, and it should be able to be carried in a pocket since its a mobile phone. Mobile meaning that it's meant to be traveled with. Leaving it on tables and counters hinders it's usefulness.

uh.. the what now?

 

[asleep]

Has the bending thing died down?

Nope x 573: http://oneofthenine.com/

 

[jpeg42]

Nope x 573: http://oneofthenine.com/

Looking at that site is like nails on a chalkboard. I have never seen a more annoyingly designed website.

 

[01silver4]

You are really funny!
I tried wrapping a pen around a hotdog and it didn't work! Seems the hot dog was bending a lot more that the pen would

Since Your leg is so hard that your can wrap a phone around it, how do you walk?!

If you are thinking Barney-style, you will keep coming up with this childish examples.

Try again.

Boy u have me rolling here #

 

[Itzamna]

Nope x 573: http://oneofthenine.com/

This site is ridiculous... Lots of them are situations that have nothing to do with in-pocket bending... Some of them even admit that they dropped it or seated on top of the phone...And others, while not stating the obvious, are so destroyed that it would be impossible to be due bending on the pocket... Not to mention some duplicates...

 

[Jayson A]

This site is ridiculous... Lots of them are situations that have nothing to do with in-pocket bending... Some of them even admit that they dropped it or seated on top of the phone...And others, while not stating the obvious, are so destroyed that it would be impossible to be due bending on the pocket... Not to mention some duplicates...

I noticed that too. Some of them look mangled beyond belief and the person is like "Thanks a lot Apple! I have no idea how this happened!"

It still makes me cautious though. I don't want to exchange my iPhone. I guess one good thing that came out of this bending thing is that Apple probably got a TON of AppleCare+ subscriptions out of it.

 

[maflynn]

[MOD NOTE]
At this point we seem to be going around and no further useful discussion