Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPhone 6 Plus Bending Limits Tested in New Video
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
We have a handful of anecdotal claims, a photo or two with no proof of the cause, and a video which shows an iPhone 6 Plus taking MASSIVE unrealistic abuse and not only failing to break when it bends, but continuing to function!
That's the negative evidence. (Nothing comparing the same situations to OTHER phones, you'll notice.)
Now the positive:
]SquareTrade insures devices. They perform various tests to rate durability, because their business model depends on knowing that.
Their results per the WSJ: the iPhone 6 Plus is the strongest phablet, AND the strongest iPhone. (Note: their tests clearly favor dropping and scratching and water resistance. They don't seem to worry about pockets being likely to cause great forces! Still, even with 10 seconds underwater taken into account, the iPhone 6/Plus beat "waterproof" Samsung devices.)
I'm far more likely to drop my phone onto a hard surface or water than to put MASSIVE force on it with my leg against my pocket. Because that kind of mysterious force would leave my leg black and blue, and I'd learn my lesson!
Wait for a video of someone bending a Note 4 as hard as they can. See if it's still working, the way that iPhone 6 Plus is at the end! I'd rather have a slightly bent phone that still does everything, than a totally dead one.
Better yet, wait for statistical significance: testing MULTIPLE of each phone brand and averaging the results. Failing that, get the device that serves you best. A Note with an old-style poor fingerprint reader, which Samsung stops releasing software updates for in a year, and which has a full selection of malware but a poorer selection of apps, might be just the thing! It might not.
That's the negative evidence. (Nothing comparing the same situations to OTHER phones, you'll notice.)
Now the positive:
]SquareTrade insures devices. They perform various tests to rate durability, because their business model depends on knowing that.
Their results per the WSJ: the iPhone 6 Plus is the strongest phablet, AND the strongest iPhone. (Note: their tests clearly favor dropping and scratching and water resistance. They don't seem to worry about pockets being likely to cause great forces! Still, even with 10 seconds underwater taken into account, the iPhone 6/Plus beat "waterproof" Samsung devices.)
I'm far more likely to drop my phone onto a hard surface or water than to put MASSIVE force on it with my leg against my pocket. Because that kind of mysterious force would leave my leg black and blue, and I'd learn my lesson!
Wait for a video of someone bending a Note 4 as hard as they can. See if it's still working, the way that iPhone 6 Plus is at the end! I'd rather have a slightly bent phone that still does everything, than a totally dead one.
Better yet, wait for statistical significance: testing MULTIPLE of each phone brand and averaging the results. Failing that, get the device that serves you best. A Note with an old-style poor fingerprint reader, which Samsung stops releasing software updates for in a year, and which has a full selection of malware but a poorer selection of apps, might be just the thing! It might not.
Newsflash: pants pockets were designed centuries before large glass smartphones - and smartphones are primarily designed for use in one's hands. Just get over this BS crisis and order up a few new pairs of CARGO PANTS - that way you can be intelligent about your tech choices and preferred modes of device transport.
A clear sign that some ppl wear their pants too tight. I have always kept mine in my front pocket. I install flooring so I'm always standing bending stooping kneeling all day and have never had my iPhone bend
I agree.. my 5S can't to that either. I guess iPhone 6 is the Next BENT Thing. Way to R&D real world application.
Agreed. As an owner I am worried about it. The question is, how much of an issue it is.
In my case, looks like I will get AppleCare plus, cause I don't want to have to baby this phone.
----------
Same test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4...oDvUnTzoqsYeNw
You were saying "?
Any phone should not bend, crack, chip, shatter, under regular use. What this dude did is not regular use, but interesting that it was already slightly warped out of his pocket.
Warm body + hot processor + thin aluminum = bendy iPhone?
Hard to believe Apple would have let this one slip through the cracks. Low quality aluminum could be a factor.
Warm body + hot processor + thin aluminum = bendy iPhone?
Hard to believe Apple would have let this one slip through the cracks. Low quality aluminum could be a factor.
Happily using my gorgeous iPhone 6+... never put the old one in my pocket and don't plan to do that with this one either.
It's so PURTY!
How do you carry it then?
http://www.cultofmac.com/297404/get-bent-shocking-history-bent-smartphones/
Every iPhone and every smartphone has done this. Cult of Mac even ran articles on past iPhones doing this same thing. They posted this story with pictures of other phones having the same issue.
Every iPhone and every smartphone has done this. Cult of Mac even ran articles on past iPhones doing this same thing. They posted this story with pictures of other phones having the same issue.
This is so unbelievably stupid. I can't believe some of the genuine concern some are showing here. A handful of ppl had some misfortune. It happens to everyone at some point.
It's far more likely you will accidentally drop your phone at some point. Im having a hard time imaging a careless moment where I accidentally grab the phone side to side with 2 hands and put full hand shaking beard into bending it in half.
It's far more likely you will accidentally drop your phone at some point. Im having a hard time imaging a careless moment where I accidentally grab the phone side to side with 2 hands and put full hand shaking beard into bending it in half.
Well done. No scratch on a phone thats 5 days old
----------
I cant see how apple is going to sort this out, (if they do at all). A quick re mix of a new aluminium alloy? What will happen with all the millions of phones already out there?
http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossaryb/g/what-is-business-attire.htm
I'm not quite sure where Cargo pants fit in.
Yup, some of us have jobs
To any students out there, great tip!
I am not a metallurgist. I am not a designer. I have jumped into dropzones with a 3, 3G, and a 4. The one thing they all had in common...they had a case! And a ziploc bag for weather. Never a bend and never a cracked screen. And I have landed on them. Then recently, with my 5, I started carrying in my back pocket (the clip for the Otter box kept breaking). Still in the case! I am not a delicate flower! North of 200# at my heaviest at 235#. NO ISSUES!!! I will get the 6+, and it will have a case. And it will not go in my back pocket. I don't jump out of planes anymore, but, I am a little dropsy at times. If you are going to buy a $400+ phone and you don't have the money to buy a new one: it is a cheap insurance to buy a case to protect that investment...until 2 years later when the new one comes out. Unless you have ATT next plan...or you have their insurance and or Apple Care. Everyone complained that the screen was small for years and now they complain that "it bends because it is too big and thin"! Stuff happens! You cannot please everyone all the time...if you can, I think Apple may hire you to make things right for them...
A good psychologist to get to the bottom of Jony Ives fascination with thinness might be a good start
They will just follow standard operational procedure are pretend there is no issue. Best case scenario is some witty comment from Phil Schiller on twitter etc.
He did it with a Note 3. You couldn't even see the bend. For all practical purposes, he applied even more force and really couldn't bend it.
So that's not true.
----------
This sounds exactly like, all phones drop the signal when you cover the antenna.
The issue with that report is that those other phones (and most of the examples were iPhones bending), were by people being rough with their phone or, like one of the examples, looks like someone ran it over with a car.
The iPhone 6 just bends after 2 days being in your pocket. that's the problem.
The guy in this video illustrates the crap build quality of the iPhone. it just illustrates it. Then he did the same, with even more pressure, with a Galaxy Note 3 and the phone didn't bend. After a few more tried he managed something but he couldn't really notice it.
Actually when he tried to bend the iPhone back the screen cracked.
Do you do any research before you talk? The iPhone 5 and 5s had this exact same issue. Stop complaining. Even the 4 and 4 s would bend with enough pressure. Did you see the article on cult of Mac? Probably not I'm guessing ...
And? We've seen a few bent phones out millions that have been sold. So what? At the VERY MOST this is a few edge case scenarios, and people always look for something to point at when a new iPhone is released. Same **** every year. There were threads about the 5S bending at this same time last year. Like clockwork on the internet to finger point something about the new iPhone.
It did break. He cracked the screen.
The Note 3 didn't bend. He managed an unnoticeable small barely there warp after really going at it for a long time, but you couldn't see it on camera.
By all practical purposes, you can't bend a Note 3 in everyday use.
By all the posts on Macrumors (and headlines on other websites), you can bend an iPhone after 2 days of being in your pocket.
That's reality.
It just illustrates how Apple puts beauty before real world use. and how you're being sold a paper thin piece of aluminum and hardware from 3 years ago that has been slightly updated for an impossibly expensive price tag.
that's the point.
----------
They need stop obsessing about thinness. the iPhone 4 was thin enough.
----------
I just showed this video to my students just before lunch.
They sat there with their jaws opened. I asked them if they thought that was good quality. They screamed NO.
Kids are brutally honest.