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iPhone 5 "Bending" Fact or Fiction?

Nolander07 said:
If I remember right, didn't people complain that the iPhone 4 was made of glass when it was released? Wasn't the complaint that it could crack or break too easily? It's funny how this works.
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People soon got over that when a back could be replaced for about $20.

How much do you think it's going to cost to completely strip down an iPhone 5's back so you can replace it? The back is the phone.

As far as accidentally bending the iPhone 5, I figured out how fragile it was (compared to the 4/4S) after holding it for about 10 seconds in the store. If someone bought a 5, they damn well should know how fragile it is compared to the the 4/4S and have no excuse for 'accidentally' bending it.

It's like: Oh, my, this very very thin and very light and very tall/skinny phone bent in my pocket when I hit a table or sat down..." That one's on you. Me, I just didn't buy the damn thing.
 
Sedrick said:
People soon got over that when a back could be replaced for about $20.

How much do you think it's going to cost to completely strip down an iPhone 5's back so you can replace it? The back is the phone.

As far as accidentally bending the iPhone 5, I figured out how fragile it was (compared to the 4/4S) after holding it for about 10 seconds in the store. If someone bought a 5, they damn well should know how fragile it is compared to the the 4/4S and have no excuse for 'accidentally' bending it.

It's like: Oh, my, this very very thin and very light and very tall/skinny phone bent in my pocket when I hit a table or sat down..." That one's on you. Me, I just didn't buy the damn thing.
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The iPhone 5 is not fragile. I'll say that one more time. The iPhone 5 is not easily broken or damaged.

I've dropped mine twice (w/o case or screen protector) onto a hard plywood floor from 3-4 feet with absolutely no damage. The second time it happened it was flung couple of feet before it hit the floor because someone grabbed the shop towel it was sitting on.

After that, I stopped giving a crap about babying it. I banged it like hell (edgeways) several times on a hard plastic foldout table just to see how tough it is, and it's undamaged, everything works, it's not bent, etc.

If you open one up, you'll see the back and sides form a sturdy machined aluminum casing. It's solid and well-built.
 
corvus32 said:
The iPhone 5 is not fragile. I'll say that one more time. The iPhone 5 is not easily broken or damaged.

I've dropped mine twice (w/o case or screen protector) onto a hard plywood floor from 3-4 feet with absolutely no damage. The second time it happened it was flung couple of feet before it hit the floor because someone grabbed the shop towel it was sitting on.

After that, I stopped giving a crap about babying it. I banged it like hell (edgeways) several times on a hard plastic foldout table just to see how tough it is, and it's undamaged, everything works, it's not bent, etc.

If you open one up, you'll see the back and sides form a sturdy machined aluminum casing. It's solid and well-built.
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Your personal experience holds no more water than mine. I wish half this board would understand that. Sure it's rock solid in your world but falls apart in someone else's. I'm mechanically inclined enough to know that the 5 wouldn't hold up to what I put the 4 through just by handling it at ATT, so I didn't buy it. That doesn't mean it's going to bend/break/chip or have the screen pop out for you, but it's been reported enough that I chose to stay away from it.

For me to claim that the phone would have all those issues for everyone is as absurd as your claim that it's rock solid and has no problems what-so-ever and that these problems don't exist.
 
Sedrick said:
Your personal experience holds no more water than mine. I wish half this board would understand that. Sure it's rock solid in your world but falls apart in someone else's. I'm mechanically inclined enough to know that the 5 wouldn't hold up to what I put the 4 through just by handling it at ATT, so I didn't buy it. That doesn't mean it's going to bend/break/chip or have the screen pop out for you, but it's been reported enough that I chose to stay away from it.

For me to claim that the phone would have all those issues for everyone is as absurd as your claim that it's rock solid and has no problems what-so-ever and that these problems don't exist.
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I will have a video for you shortly.
 
mono1980 said:
I've never understood this phenomenon. If the phone bent even a little bit, wouldn't the glass on the screen crack?
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Depends on how much the phone is bent. It won't crack with a slight bend. But eventually it will either separate or crack.

I'm sure some have had their phone bend. However, I do doubt those that say it "just happened" without any reason.

I'll probably jinx myself [if I believed in that sort of thing! :D] but I've had my 5 since launch day [one week after it actually], and have had no issues of bending, flaking, peeling, cracking, or various hardware blemishes that some have posted. I'm NOT saying it's not happening. But I have yet to experience it, and I don't use a case, nor do I "baby" it.
 
Sedrick said:
People soon got over that when a back could be replaced for about $20.

How much do you think it's going to cost to completely strip down an iPhone 5's back so you can replace it? The back is the phone.

As far as accidentally bending the iPhone 5, I figured out how fragile it was (compared to the 4/4S) after holding it for about 10 seconds in the store. If someone bought a 5, they damn well should know how fragile it is compared to the the 4/4S and have no excuse for 'accidentally' bending it.

It's like: Oh, my, this very very thin and very light and very tall/skinny phone bent in my pocket when I hit a table or sat down..." That one's on you. Me, I just didn't buy the damn thing.
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Yes, but just because its inexpensive to repair doesn't mean it can't break easily. That doesn't make any sense. I thought the argument was that the iPhone 5 was somehow made below the industry standard. Saying that one phone that breaks from dropping can be fixed for $20 and another may cost a lot more to repair doesn't make one better or worse than the other.
 
The bending is fiction made up by users of another phone I won't mention. The insecurity those users feel because they have bendy and cracking plastic. :rolleyes:
 
Grolubao said:
I got an iPhone 5 bent out of the box, so maybe I'm craving for a SIII instead of an iPhone 5?
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Sure you did.
I don't believe any of the pictures online of a bent iPhone 5. What's to say the person didn't purposely damaged the phone because they get off on that type of stuff?
 
corvus32 said:
The iPhone 5 is not fragile. I'll say that one more time. The iPhone 5 is not easily broken or damaged.

I've dropped mine twice (w/o case or screen protector) onto a hard plywood floor from 3-4 feet with absolutely no damage. The second time it happened it was flung couple of feet before it hit the floor because someone grabbed the shop towel it was sitting on.

After that, I stopped giving a crap about babying it. I banged it like hell (edgeways) several times on a hard plastic foldout table just to see how tough it is, and it's undamaged, everything works, it's not bent, etc.

If you open one up, you'll see the back and sides form a sturdy machined aluminum casing. It's solid and well-built.
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Bending and breaking when dropped are two very different things. Take a piece of foam - bends like hell but never breaks. The video posted a few messages back is also not very convincing. Obviously it has nothing to do with bending. And as far as breaking is concerned... the guy simply has cheap countertops. Try the same trick with granite and then we'll talk ;)
 
I had a bent iPhone 5 near the volume buttons. That caused the phone to not fit with some cases. Apple replaced it at no charge.
 
standingoten said:
Sure you did.
I don't believe any of the pictures online of a bent iPhone 5. What's to say the person didn't purposely damaged the phone because they get off on that type of stuff?
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I don't need you to believe, what I know is that the iPhone 5 was bent out of the box. The genius couldn't believe it. Of course I asked them to open another box because I wasn't getting a bent iPhone.
 
lilo777 said:
Bending and breaking when dropped are two very different things. Take a piece of foam - bends like hell but never breaks. The video posted a few messages back is also not very convincing. Obviously it has nothing to do with bending. And as far as breaking is concerned... the guy simply has cheap countertops. Try the same trick with granite and then we'll talk ;)
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The iPhone 5 is a lot tougher than people give it credit for, and I think that video shows it. Try that with a GS3 or Note 2 and watch the plastic go flying.

As for factory bent iPhone's, if people want to believe in that theory, go ahead. Personally, I think it's a bunch of crap. How would you machine a chamfered edge on something that's bent? How would you even assemble it into a finished product if it were bent? The screws aren't going to line up with the holes they're suppose to go in.

The main shell of the iPhone 5 that houses all the components that make up the device is manufactured using an automated assembly process. Apple clearly states in their video that the process involves using two powerful cameras to keep variation between devices measurable within microns.

If there truly are bent iPhone's out there, then someone had to physically bend it on purpose by hand. It's not going to come from the factory fully assembled bent. You're not going to bend one just by carrying it in your pocket. You're not going to bend one by dropping it, and you're not going to bend it by hammering the hell out of it on the side of a table either (I tested that last one myself).
 
They drill 4.8 millimeter holes through a 7.13 millimeter band of aluminium shell.

It doesn't take a lot of mechanical skills to figure out how sensitive and fragile is the result of that.

"If a component wasn’t small enough, we re-imagined it."
Were smaller volume adjustment buttons beyond imagination?
 
Grolubao said:
I don't need you to believe, what I know is that the iPhone 5 was bent out of the box. The genius couldn't believe it. Of course I asked them to open another box because I wasn't getting a bent iPhone.
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Morons will continue to believe what they want. Earth is flat, we live in a real democracy, non-tempered aluminum won't bend.
 
Jalopybox said:
Morons will continue to believe what they want. Earth is flat, we live in a real democracy, non-tempered aluminum won't bend.
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Heh, non-tempered aluminum won't bend, no matter how little material is left after hogging out the volume button holes... if you just believe... :D

Anyway, tying to carry on a rational conversation with rabid fanboys just wears me out, so have at it kids.
 
standingoten said:
Sure you did.
I don't believe any of the pictures online of a bent iPhone 5. What's to say the person didn't purposely damaged the phone because they get off on that type of stuff?
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So we have here a member with almost 500 posts over a period in excess of 4 years and we have you, a member of just 3 days (banned I note in such a brief period), telling the former that he is lying. Whom do I believe?
 
Peterg2 said:
So we have here a member with almost 500 posts over a period in excess of 4 years and we have you, a member of just 3 days (banned I note in such a brief period), telling the former that he is lying. Whom do I believe?
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More importantly, why bother wasting anymore effort trying to persuade people in the basic laws of physics. Thin aluminum bends. If you can't accept that, remove yourself from the human race, you will be doing the rest of us a favor.
 
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