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I didn't think it would happen...signs of bending
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This is weird to me, I've sat on mine in my back pocket, biked with it in my back pocket and no signs of bending yet for my 6. Yet people who baby theirs and its bent horribly
Kind of a strange thing to say. It's your phone. You're the one who owns and interacts with it. If anyone is in a position to engage in informed speculation as to what happened to it, it would be you. Why are you reticent to do so?
What an odd thing. I have read a ton of these bend threads, and my honest opinion is, there was/is definitely a faulty batch of iPhones out there.
Apple really needs to step up and figure out what the problem is.
NO one wants to pay this amount for a phone, and have to worry about the thing bending in the least!
No one should have to baby their device. I don't mean abuse it, but good Lord! When I get mine on Friday, I am going to be afraid to slide it it in my purse and let it accidentally hit or touch anything in there.
Apple really needs to step up and figure out what the problem is.
NO one wants to pay this amount for a phone, and have to worry about the thing bending in the least!
No one should have to baby their device. I don't mean abuse it, but good Lord! When I get mine on Friday, I am going to be afraid to slide it it in my purse and let it accidentally hit or touch anything in there.
Wow... so OP doesn't know the cause, but you keep pressing. Okay, what's the agenda in doing this?
I don't examine my phone everyday, I rarely take it out of my case. Today just happened to be the day I took out of the case to make sure dust wasn't inside. But I can say that I wouldn't considered myself a normal everyday user of my iPhone. There are some days I don't use my iPhone at all. I use my iPad air way more often.
I don't want to pull this off topic. It's not about you, or me. No defensiveness here - my iPhone is straight as an arrow. I just don't understand why you have trouble accepting the OP's original statements, and why you feel the need to repeatedly challenge them.
Ah - looking around, I see the pattern. Well, more power to you. If you've made it your mission to discredit posters in every bend thread, you're going to be very busy. I'll let you get back to it...
Just bend it back the opposite way. I dropped my 5s about 80 feet down from an amusement park ride. It was bent and I just bent it the opposite way on my knee...almost good as new. I know it shouldn't bend regardless but hey, if it bent that easily, it can bend back.
I don't think anyone is defensive. But you, in all honesty, are asking bad questions. Under NORMAL every day use, no one is going to know WHY their phones are bending. I have used a ton of phones, some I have accidentally dropped (but they never bent!), they are usually kept in a side pocket in my purse, and they are used for talking, games, texting, and internet browsing. Normal use. I have never had one bend. And IF mine does bend, I will have NO clue why, as NONE in the past have bent from every day normal use.
Whether it's in a pocket, or whatever. People do that stuff every day and should not have to worry about it. So, there won't be a definitive answer to your question.
If you don't recall ever applying pressure to the phone (whether in pocket or otherwise) then you were probably drunk when it happened.
There, solved.
There, solved.
So you expect someone to monitor their phone 24/7? Sometimes cause isn't apparent. I'm sure for example that we've all gotten flat tires without there being any obvious debris on the road
But by asking that question you're completely dismissing the possibility that simply having the phone in your pocket, moving around, standing up, sitting down (not ON the phone, mind you) can cause it to deform like this over time. If that's actually what did happen, then of course he wouldn't have an answer to any specific "thing" that he did to cause it.
I (and many others) think that's plausible.
Edit: grabbed the wrong quote.
"How did you bend it?" is a "bad question?"
Wow.
Asking the OP to speculate a little as to what may have happened is "repeatedly challenging" him (according to dotme)?
Y'all need to be a little less defensive because that blast of posts right there was incredibly rediculous.
Yes. It's a bad question. Again, if you are doing normal things that you normally would with your phone, you won't know WHY it is bending (as it should NOT be bending).
And... so sorry we have upset you with our "ridiculousness".
It must be contagious.
LMAAA @ Surf Monkey interrogating OP for his bent iPhone.
I hope Apple is paying you enough, Surf Monkey
I hope Apple is paying you enough, Surf Monkey
I've also noticed all the bent iphones are from users who put them in a case.
Take that for what its worth.
Take that for what its worth.
Most likely due to a force that exceeded the structural capacity of the iPhone. Considering it's at the bottom of the list of phones tested by consumer reports it should not really be a surprise. Just like you I hope they make the next iPhone even thinner since aesthetics trump structural integrity in my book.
Just take it to Apple. Stare the genius in the eye and say "have you ever seen a guy bend before" while cracking your knuckles and im sure he will take care off you
Kind of a big "if" and the core point of asking the question. Only one person in the thread knows or can speculate as to what may have happened, because clearly something happened. In point of fact we don't know if the OP was just "doing normal things you would normally do with your phone." After all, what you consider normal may be different from what I consider normal may be different from what the OP considers normal etc. etc..
So maybe y'all should stop with the extreme defensiveness and assumptions. All I did was ask a simple question.
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