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iPhone 6 Plus Bending Limits Tested in New Video
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YOU'RE PUTTING THE FORCE ON THE PHONE. Where does it say in the documentation that you can put as much force on the phone as you think is appropriate by putting it in your pocket.
Some (actually the vast majority) of people will carry this phone in their pockets for years and never bend it. But if you think that the fact that the a phone fits in a pocket should somehow make it impervious to normal physics you're deluded.
It's pretty much common sense to realize that, if you have a piece of aluminum and glass that's a quarter of inch thick, 3 inches wide and 6.5 inches long it's only going to stand so much force before it bends or breaks. A reasonable person would feel that force in their pocket.
Honestly, the one thing that Apple could have done here was to make it out of plastic. But nobody would have bought it.
Temporary Solution to iphone bending Problem
Apple should give out free cases that would compliment the design but gives it strength as well. This would be a more cost affective way of handling the bending situation while they investigate and fire the responsible people in the quality assurance or design department in their company.
Then a redesign should take place to fix the problem. This should have not happen.
Especially when it had happen before on iPhone and other brands.
Apple should give out free cases that would compliment the design but gives it strength as well. This would be a more cost affective way of handling the bending situation while they investigate and fire the responsible people in the quality assurance or design department in their company.
Then a redesign should take place to fix the problem. This should have not happen.
Especially when it had happen before on iPhone and other brands.
I'm not your butler.
Go find it yourself.
I knew the answer already, there isn't one. Or maybe my Google fu is weak lol.
I have not found a video of someone bending a phone, not named iPhone 6 +...with there bare hands.
If you're a mechanical engineer, then you would probably be more skeptical of the claims being made. For example, how would it be possible for the phone to bend across it's width if it were being placed vertically in the pocket? Shouldn't it be bending vertically along the curvature of the leg? Note that in the video where the guy bends the phone with his hands, he's applying types of pressure that wouldn't be possible if the phone was flush against the leg. Your leg would apply pressure to the entire length of the phone, not isolate pressure to a single point that allows it to be bent by it's width.
No, it exists and they bend and break. You denying it doesn't mean it's not there. Look again. Maybe I'll post the three I found but then I'd be doing your job for you.
Okay okay okay . . . .here's one
You are wrong and it doesn't matter if he said it didn't take much force to bend it because that would be a lie. At one point in the video you can see him straining and his hands shaking while trying to bend it. His hands are shaking because of the obvious resistance he's received while trying to bend it. It is not easy to bend and will not bend without applying a great amount of force, much more force from putting into your front pants pocket under normal use. When I say normal use I mean the way everyone slips a phone into their pockets which is lengthway and not sideway. Most pants pockets cannot hold the iPhone 6 plus sideways so ask your self how did this really bend from left to right (horizontally) if it's lengthways in your front pants pocket! This guy who supposedly bend his phone in his front suit pants pocket while at a wedding or whatever I don't believe to be telling the whole truth, and just thinking about it more makes me find more holes in his story. Most dress pants pockets are also smaller than jeans pants pockets too. His story is pure BS I guarantee it.
I just post something similar about 2 minutes ago as I was trying to prove the same point. A lot of these guys on here aren't really taking the time to think this through as we did.
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!
Just use a holster if you have a 6 or if you have a 6+ a portfolio case and admit it is really a tablet. I've used smartphones for nearly 20 years in one form or another and never carried them around in front or back pockets.
This is part of Apple's new, "Make It Yours" campaign. The "one more thing" feature of the new iPhones is the ability to customize them to fit your butt or thigh, thus making the device truly yours.
A side-benefit is that someone is less likely to steal your iDevice if the know that you can prove that it is yours in a court of law by showing that the curvature fits your butt, and only your butt.
A side-benefit is that someone is less likely to steal your iDevice if the know that you can prove that it is yours in a court of law by showing that the curvature fits your butt, and only your butt.
I don't know how legs are designed where you are from, but here they curve in multiple directions. Vertical, and Horizontal, even Diagonal! Some flat areas, some round areas....
Legs are not just cylinders.
People with a lot of muscle mass in their legs could easily exert enough force to bend the phone while sitting in tight pants, in any varying direction on the phone.
However, because the phone is longer than it is wide, the bend will most likely show up along the lengthy portion of the phone.
Wouldn't you be applying such pressure if the phone was, say, a little too close to the top of your pocket while sitting and you leaned forward to stand up, or leaned forward in general? I imagine that way a considerable amount of force can be generated on a long object in a pocket.
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The S is for Sturdy
Your criteria was "bend a phone not named iPhone 6+ with bare hands" or something of that nature. The article he linked contained a video clearly showing a Samsung Galaxy S4 being bent (deformed metal and all) and shattered with bear hands.
What other critera did you have? Does the video have to be filmed on 35mm film? Specific camera type? Outdoors? What time of day? Should there be any dogs present in the shot? WTF are you talking about, man?
Here's what you said:
how long until someone says that that is moot, iPhones still should not bend. They said similar things over the antenna issue that almost all phones also have.
Thanks for that, I seriously could not locate a video like that.
The S4 was a very popular phone, why wasn't it's "bending" problems publicised?
There seems to be quite a few stories of iPhone 6+ bending popping up.
And the bend on the S4, was no where near what it was on the 6+. But the screen cracked..so plus 1 for apple!
How heavy is that goalpost?
Serious my friend it's not a big deal really.
Bend phone . . . phone break.
iPhone 6 Plus Bending Limits Tested in New Video
Like I quoted above, I could not find that video in my searches. The link didn't work on my iPhone 6 so I had to search specifically for an S4 bending.
Seems like the Note 3 doesn't suffer from this issue..so it seems Samsung is making progress on its structural integrity. What's up with Apple?
Like I quoted above, I could not find that video in my searches. The link didn't work on my iPhone 6 so I had to search specifically for an S4 bending.
Seems like the Note 3 doesn't suffer from this issue..so it seems Samsung is making progress on its structural integrity. What's up with Apple?
It's Apple. I wouldn't expect anything better than design over function from them. Every product they make is downright fragile.
But this whole bending phone when I press on it thing is like saying the Retina Macbook Pro should come out flawless after being dropped from a two story building.
I've always criticized people that mocked Samsung from using plastic, I think it's a better material to make smartphones out of. If the 6 Plus was like the 5c sure it'd be heavier, but this whole bending thing would be non existent.