you want apple to address the issue? how many phones have bent?
apple has yet to address the GPU issue in the Early 2011 MBP and that has effected thousands and thousands
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how can you bend your iPhone 6 under normal usage
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you want apple to address the issue? how many phones have bent?
apple has yet to address the GPU issue in the Early 2011 MBP and that has effected thousands and thousands
An Apple case would not make a bit of difference when it comes to bending.
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Those millions will need to wait till the iPhone 7 as there is little they can do without a complet redesign to the 6 and 6S. That is not going to happen as the bent phones represent so few of the number not bent!
An Apple case would not make a bit of difference when it comes to bending.
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Those millions will need to wait till the iPhone 7 as there is little they can do without a complet redesign to the 6 and 6S. That is not going to happen as the bent phones represent so few of the number not bent!
Yea you're right, clearly it didn't help lol.
Under normal careful usage it won't bend. However, what passes for normal and careful for some people isn't the same as others. A lot of threads from people with bent phones often state that they don't do anything they don't normally do when using their phone, that doesn't really say much considering the way phones are treated. Being thrown about, placed in restrictive areas of high pressure, rough handling.
I think people need to take more care and be more responsible for their own devices and not expect to be babied. It's a consumer product manufactured for a purpose, it fulfills that purpose. If it's not to the level a particular person requires, don't buy, return it, sell it, get something different, simple.
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Ask any of these people.. List of reported cases getting bigger daily. These are reported so you know how that goes, always more not reported. Mine bent just being in my front pocket with me kneeling down in my loose work pants. Of course I have been called a liar many times over but hey whatever. Keep track of that website it's kind of crazy.
Ask any of these people.. List of reported cases getting bigger daily. These are reported so you know how that goes, always more not reported. Mine bent just being in my front pocket with me kneeling down in my loose work pants. Of course I have been called a liar many times over but hey whatever. Keep track of that website it's kind of crazy.
I almost bent my when I ran over it with my car. Thank God it was actually in the car and not under the wheels.
Those millions will need to wait till the iPhone 7 as there is little they can do without a complet redesign to the 6 and 6S. That is not going to happen as the bent phones represent so few of the number not bent!
I think they could make it a LOT stronger right now by just ditching the Apple logo cutout and just laser etching it instead.
In my opinion, it wont just bend "over night". The phone will be bending gradually on a tiny scale, until the whole thing just "lets go" and bends so you'll notice it right away...
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I bent mine. I'm not exactly sure when but I'd say within the first 2-3 weeks. I took it to the Apple Store near me over the weekend and they replaced it.
See this thread - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1810161/
I'm 99% sure it was getting into my Jeep. My jeans aren't tight but aren't baggy either. They are a loose / relaxed fit.
See this thread - https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1810161/
I'm 99% sure it was getting into my Jeep. My jeans aren't tight but aren't baggy either. They are a loose / relaxed fit.
When you bend down or bend to sit, your quadriceps (quad muscles) stretch very taut across the front of your thighs. Since I run and lift weights, I have one section of quads right in the center of my thigh that sticks up more than the other muscles and is quite firm when flexed. That provides a very firm fulcrum that can exert a strong cross-sectional or twisting force on a phone positioned at an angle in my front pocket. So yes my thighs can bend metal; especially the thin, hollow, structurally weak iPhone 6/6+.
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I'd be curious to see a test in which Consumer Reports or someone else took 100 people off the street gave them a device the size of the iPhone 6+ that could measure the amount of force exerted upon it and had them sit, bend, walk around and mimic every day use to see what those numbers are. Sure we see that the phone can withstand X amount of force but how much force do we put on phones in "normal" use? Sitting at my desk right now I can see that the material in my jeans is fairly tight against my thigh but I wouldn't expect that a phone would bend with that much force. I think I bent my phone actually getting into my Jeep where I lift my leg up high and have noticed the jeans are tighter at the thigh when I do that.
As someone who bent their 6+ within the first few weeks I'd be somewhat surprised if I don't bend my new one in the next 11 months.
Exactly. Have you ever pulled your phone out of your pocket while buckled into a seatbelt or other tight space? That's easily enough force to bend these phones. It doesn't happen often, but there have been times I've had to adjust my phone after I sat down because it had rotated while in my pocket or I didn't push it into my pocket far enough and the edge dug into my hip. Every other phone I've owned has handled these situations without deforming.
When I get into my car I put my iPhone into the console. Others put it into a holder on the dash to use it as navigator. The few times I have had to pull it out of my pocket, I can't say there has been so much force it would bend so easily!
I would like to get an iPhone 6+. However, I keep my phone (currently a Samsung) in my front pocket most of the time in the office; getting up and down frequently (often talking business to peers while doing so, so I'm not thinking about what's in my pockets most all of the time). That's how I carry my phone and I don't want to buy a phone that forces me to carry it by hand, put it on a belt holder (tried that with another smaller phone and didn't like it), or the least desirable option; carry a man-purse around just to hold my phone.
The guys in my office who do own 6/6+s are often leaving the phones on their desks as it is too much of a pain to carry around by hand. I don't want to leave my phone on the desk; I want it with me at all times so I can use it whenever I need it.
BTW - My casual business pants would be a death trap for an iPhone 6+. The pockets are wide and loose enough for it to move horizontally and the material does not give much, so the pant legs would stretch tightly across a long phone putting considerable force on it. As a test, I put a TI calculator in my pocket sideways, and even though it is slightly shorter than a 6+, I could feel the considerable pressure on my quads when I sat down.
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There ISN'T an issue to address. The perception that there is an issue is taking care of itself as time goes on.
I don't think it's an "issue" but it's something that has happened. While most people won't bend their phones, it's completely possible that due to a type of manufacturing defect in a small percentage of devices combined with a rare case of usage caused it to bend.
Exactly what I thought until I bent mine.
Go look at all of my posts. I defended Apple when bendgate hit, I've posted nothing but positive things about Apple over the last few years. I love my 6+ EXCEPT for the fact that it bent so easily. It isn't people misusing their phone, it's a design flaw.
Apple has made them in the past and quietly acknowledged them. The issue they had with the polycarbonate macbooks, and how they handled it, is why I'm a loyal Apple customer today. My macbook developed a crack after about 18 months - well out of warranty. Apple fixed it for free. 6 months later it happened again and they fixed it for free again - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Finally-Addressing-White-MacBook-Cracks-109115.shtml
As long as Apple takes care of the phones that get bent, like they did mine, I'll remain a customer. That loyalty would end in a heartbeat should they stop replacing bent phones.