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iPhone 6 Plus Bending Limits Tested in New Video

Do u think apple will make if stronger in the next batch of phones waiting to buy a 6 +
 
I feel confident that a person would have to feel some sort of discomfort while a phone was pressed hard enough against their leg/pelvis to BEND IT.

I can see someone not being terribly uncomfortable while bending one in a back pocket while sitting on it. Especially guys who are used to sitting on a wallet.

I carry my iPhones in my front pocket, but I have to pull them out while seated (or at least, pull them partially out) to avoid discomfort.

I cannot fathom some of the stories I'm reading being scenarios that are likely to occur with regularity. 18 hours in a pocket while sitting in one day? Nope. Just not likely. Why would he not at least pull that huge phone out to plug it in to charge? Or because it was uncomfortable in his pocket?

Weird.
 
Its not just that the aluminum is maleable...its the fact that there is no inside middle chassis that the iPhone4/4S had
 
rdlink said:
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.
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What documentation??? Paper is way too expensive for Apple to provide a real documentation with his phones...
Besides, you're putting the burden of the proof on the wrong side of the argument. It's the burden of your documentation to list what you CANNOT do with your device.

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.
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Yes, indeed, it's common sense. How can you explain that the design team at Apple lacked even that little common sense not to realize that their device would not resist the most common use case for a phone ?

Honestly, the one thing that Apple could have done here was to make it out of plastic. But nobody would have bought it.
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The 3G/3GS made of plastic sold very fine. The 4/4S made is steal which is much stronger than aluminum sold very fine too.
 
iComedy Club

Maybe the iPhone wants to become a flip phone? :p
Or maybe the iPhone is really a flip phone trapped inside an iPhone? :p

Perhaps Apple should consult David Beckham on a bendable iPhone? :cool:

Now if Apple did release a bendable or flexable iPhone, they could have an ad that goes "Get bent.... Samsung!" :p
They could use the song Bend Me, Shape Me by 1960's rock band The American Breed. This would also keep in line with Apple using dinosaur rock bands such as U2. :p

They could call the phone the iPhone Flex and iPhone Flex Plus. No doubt some people will shorten that down to iFlex as they did with the iPod Touch ergo iTouch. :p
iFlex will be popular at gyms, amongst the posers. :eek: :p

:p:D:cool::apple:
 
4million+ views. Youtuber be getting paid! (weird thing in the video his time on the phone goes from 2:26 during bend to 1:58 after bend...)

Seems one guy has most of the press on this so far, so not sure how wide spread this really is. Not even a lot of people posting here mentioning similar results from low wear usage.

I'll reserve judgement till I can actually feel one in my hand. This was reported with the 5 and 5S and I've never had an issue with my 5S which sits caseless in my pocket with me doing all kinds of stupid stuff.
 
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I love the apologists coming out of the woodwork, blaming the owners for their behavior and not the design of the phone.

I love my iPhone 6 and sure, it's a wonderful device... but I also carry it in my pocket. A lot of people do. That's not unreasonable use of the device. Not a back pocket, but a regular side pocket (I agree that back pockets are a risk, because you sit down on your butt after all). And sometimes I and many others have to sit for a long period of time... again, not unusual. To have a $600+ device (non-subsidized) deform during this normal behavior, that's unreal.

Apple supposedly prides itself on quality of materials AND workmanship, so this sort of thing shouldn't happen.

And yes, I'm case-happy. I had a rigid Incipio case with a folio cover on my iPhone 5. My 6 will have something similar. My 6 will probably never bend as a result... However, my goal with a case/cover is to protect the device from drops or bumping against my wallet in my pocket... it wouldn't have occurred to me that I need a case to protect from SITTING.
 
locust76 said:
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:
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The video shows shattered glass (and that required substantial force), but the phone is still straight after pushing the glass back in.
 
bend-Gate

This is terrible on many levels. How can a high-tech company not test or see this for themselves. What kind of engineers are they employing these days? This is more embarrassing than the AntennaGate Affair. The phone costs us a fortune and for Apple not to discover this is an outrage!!!:mad:
 
This is why plastic is a better material to make phones out of. They are reaching the limits of what aluminium can take now and its all based on the "hur hur plastic suxxors" brigade
 
Jmacman78 said:
Gimme a break. you could do this with most phones on the market. Put pressure on it and it will bend/break no matter what it is.

Every time a new iPhone comes out everyone freaks out that it's a "bendgate".
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In the next video, the guy does the same bend test on the note 3 and it comes out looking like new. So not most phones will bend. Only some.
 
dvoros said:
This is terrible on many levels. How can a high-tech company not test or see this for themselves. What kind of engineers are they employing these days? This is more embarrassing than the AntennaGate Affair. The phone costs us a fortune and for Apple not to discover this is an outrage!!!:mad:
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Return it if you dont feel safe....noone is forcing you to have it
 
Ives is not Perfect after all

I totally agree with this assessment. What is wrong with Apple nowadays?:(

GuitarDTO said:
I have a 6+ on order currently. I'm also a mechanical engineer by day. I see a lot of "well duh if you bend it, it's going to bend" type comments, but it seems clear that this is something Apple overlooked. They should have predicted that under many normal circumstances people were going to put this phone in their front pockets. The phone shouldn't bend that easily. The guys phone was noticeably bent even before forcing it with his hands. Apple simply failed to analyze this scenario. It makes me wonder if they even run any kind of structural analyses at all on their phones, a simple Finite Element model would show this phone lighting up like a christmas tree at the weak spot in the case (clearly near the volume buttons), and could be reinforced fairly easily without sacrificing thickness of the overall device. Jony may be a good designer, but he is clearly a *****ty engineer.

Suffice it to say, I will not be putting this phone in my pockets ever.
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Faked video?

Hey guys, this may have been pointed out previously, but there are some inconsistencies in this video that lead me to believe this iPhone 6 plus has been bent several times previously.

At 1:39 in the video when he’s bending the phone, the iPhone clock reads 2:26, Thursday September 23.

At 2:16 in the video when the phone is already bent, the iPhone clock reads 1:58, Thursday September 23

This doesn’t make sense. Does bending an iPhone 6 cause time travel? Or has this guy bent the phone back and forth several times? This guy isn't stupid, he knows a video showing the iPhone 6 Plus bend easily, will get far more publicity and views than a video showing the iPhone 6 Plus to be tough.

I'm not saying the iPhone 6/Plus doesn't have a problem, because I'm actually quite concerned about my own. But this video appears to be misleading.

Any other explanations other than he's bent the phone several times?
 
Apple says, "....or by placing the device in a rigid protective case."

If that is the alternative, then you have reached the point of making your products too damn thin. (I always end up putting my iPhone in a case because it is too thin, even back to the days of the iPhone 4S.)

You'd think Jony Ive, Tim Cook, et al have anorexic issues in their personal lives and it translates to their product designs. ("Does this make me look fat?") Gee, I'd be happy to have the "bulk" on the iPhone 3GS back. I liked the "heft" of the iPod Photo. It was like holding a deck of cards in your hand and it felt just right.

Can't wait for the warping issues with the next year's supposed MacBook Air 12". ("So thin, you can fold it like a piece of paper and stuff it in your pocket!")
 
Looking at the construction of the device it seems kind of obvious that it has a weak point around the volume button. Really, this is something that the design team should have noticed. Makes me wonder if there's even a person in the design team that has any clue about engineering. Apparently not.

Also, I'm kind of surprised to see so many "Well, duh, metal bends" and "This is unscientific!" comments. I'm sort of an Apple fanboy myself, but if they start to sell bad products, I won't defend them. There's just no way I will buy a device that I can easily bend with my bare hands. It's bad design, period.
 
SgtPepper12 said:
Looking at the construction of the device it seems kind of obvious that it has a weak point around the volume button. Really, this is something that the design team should have noticed. Makes me wonder if there's even a person in the design team that has any clue about engineering. Apparently not.

Also, I'm kind of surprised to see so many "Well, duh, metal bends" and "This is unscientific!" comments. I'm sort of an Apple fanboy myself, but if they start to sell bad products, I won't defend them. There's just no way I will buy a device that I can easily bend with my bare hands. It's bad design, period.
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I agree, although I did point out this video is to some degree faked, I agree that if these phones do bend fairly easily, it's a design flaw and should be addressed, but Apple tend to ignore these things or come out with ridiculous statements like "smartphones shouldn't go in pockets". Though that one will be difficult considering Tim had an iPhone 6 in his pocket during the keynote haha.

I must admit, my iPhone 6 and 6 plus feel kind of vulnerable now and I really don't know what to do about it. Part of me wants to just take them back for a refund but then what?
 
Hmmm. A little worrying for me. I have an iPhone 6 Plus that hasn't bent (at least yet!) though.

It's been in my work pants almost everyday all day (that I admit has MASSIVE pockets). I hope this isn't as serious as it seems to look.. Even made BBC News!

I am returning this iPhone for a completely different problem (dirt under screen). Really hope this doesn't happen to me! :( Cause I love this phone!
 
I have loose pockets in all my pants. I could fit Multiple phones in there easily. My phone is slightly bent as of this morning at the volume button side. I keep it face in, in my pocket. I have had in there for about 8 hours of use. This is not good. Nobody has sat in my lap or anything weird or odd. Normal use. Daily moving around. One day. It's bent. Have literally kept every phone I have ever had for the last 9 years in these exact pockets and this is the only phone I have had bend on me. 6+
 
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