This. To all saying "get over it, phones bend, it's normal", no. The 4s didn't bend. Didn't scratch as easily and was much more difficult to put a dent in it.
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iPhone 6 Plus Bending Limits Tested in New Video
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This. To all saying "get over it, phones bend, it's normal", no. The 4s didn't bend. Didn't scratch as easily and was much more difficult to put a dent in it.
For the sake of science falls in the same league as the I ****ing love science facebook group. In other words, neither have anything to do with science.
NPR interview request
Hi all,
I am working on a story about bendgate for NPR. I would love to interview someone about how their phone bent. If you are interested, please contact me at tfitzsimons at npr dot org.
Best,
Tim Fitzsimons
Hi all,
I am working on a story about bendgate for NPR. I would love to interview someone about how their phone bent. If you are interested, please contact me at tfitzsimons at npr dot org.
Best,
Tim Fitzsimons
with all this bendgate... the questions is... should i cancel the order for the 6+.....
I'd wait. See how this plays out, if it's a common problem. See if Apple dare addresses it. I'm in the same boat and have about three weeks to decide if canceling my order makes sense. Never thought this would be a problem
I'd wait too. Even if Apple doesn't address it, they'll silently improve the design.with all this bendgate... the questions is... should i cancel the order for the 6+.....
It IS interesting that all the headline hires at the company over the last year have been some of the worlds greatest fashionistas and marketers. I haven't seen any headlines about the hiring of any great engineers lately.
Phone sticking slightly out of pocket, sitting down, top half of it pressing against your stomach/hip. If you have the volume half of the phone sticking out, you would be bending the phone almost exactly along the location where the volume slot cutouts are. I'm the exact opposite of skeptical, I think it makes perfect sense.
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!!!
Because those engineers don't think that there are some idiots that expect a phone not to bent when using unreasonable force. In other news you can bent a Mac book if you use enough force, brake a screen when dropped or scratch your phone when in a bag or pocket. There also still seems to be no cure for idiocy unfortunately.
You guys complain like you some design geniuses and could do better than the best engineers in the business. You know the once every device manufacturer tries to imitate, it's just laughable how stupid people can be. Please build a phone that is superior build quality to the iPhone or HTC M8, run your own designed software on it, create an ecosystem for your costumers and than sell 10 million in 3 days like
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Technically the 4.7 will have this issue as well. The problem is that youre going to see this more with the 5.5 because its a long lightweight aluminum phone thats very thin.
Heres a test. Try to bend a quarter with your fingers. Near impossible right? Now imagine if that quarter was the length of an iPhone 5.5. It would be extremely easy to bend. Length, thickness, materials and construction have a lot to do with how a device performs under pressure.
Options:
Live with it and be paranoid.
Buy a thick ugly case.
Be mindful which pockets you put the device it. If its a tight fit dont do it.
Return the product and get something else.
Samsung will be all over this..
I don't know if anyone here mentioned it but, I can already see samsung using this bendable iPhone 6 and 6 plus issue within their commercials. Like they are doing with Siri and Cortana.
Cortana: I stand up straight!
Siri: I tend to slouch...
Darn....
But I'd still love to get an iPhone 6 if only they could include stabilization in that version rather than JUST 6+. I don't care for the bigger one. I might as well get the iPad Mini.
I don't know if anyone here mentioned it but, I can already see samsung using this bendable iPhone 6 and 6 plus issue within their commercials. Like they are doing with Siri and Cortana.
Cortana: I stand up straight!
Siri: I tend to slouch...
Darn....
But I'd still love to get an iPhone 6 if only they could include stabilization in that version rather than JUST 6+. I don't care for the bigger one. I might as well get the iPad Mini.
Question, when you say, "face in", do you mean the screen is resting against your thigh? If so, how can the iPhone bend? If anything, it would bend and flex the screen inward and crack the glass. If you meant face out (glass toward the outside of your pants pocket) then it would make more sense.
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Wow. I'm one of the biggest Apple critics on this board, but I've been hanging back a bit to see how this all washes out. If what you say is true Apple is in for a sh*tstorm.
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Uh oh. The sh*tstorm begins.
Screen against my thigh. Of note, I was just defending Apple this morning in the office. Saying their is no way something more didn't happen. Well I'm here to tell you, something more didn't happen.
It bent back to front on the top left corner. Put yours in your pocket and kneel down a bit and watch your pants flex over that corner. That's what is causing it. It's really not a good situation for apple right now. This will be a big deal.
I guess it goes in my shirt pocket from now on. Pocket protector style.
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Dude look up! Contact that NPR guy a few posts above this one! Popcorn time!
Dude look up! Contact that NPR guy a few posts above this one! Popcorn time!
Ive is not an engineer. there is an engineering department. Ive is design.
but i still disagree with your conclusions -- you have no idea what they tested for and what tools they used to complete those tests.
and if you arent going to keep this phone in your pockets, what are you going to do w/ it? will you get another phone, that is also susceptible to misuse?
He contacted me. It will be on all things considered tonight. I've always been very lenient with apple on stuff. I had the antenna issue and just got a case. Had the battery issue and waited for recall. Have the power button issue and waited for a recall. Not this time, not with my 950.00 phone. They need to figure it out yesterday.
I knew that people would forget about the "hideous bands" soon enough.
RIGHT!
Now it's 10,000 out of 10,000,000 mass produced electronic devices made of metal bend in your pocket when pressure is applied.
Does anyone still get a device to actually use anymore? Instead of just look at and ogle while it's on a table?
I think my phone is in my pocket the least during the day. I pull it out and use it to do all sorts of things almost consistently. Then when I'm at home it's still out of my pocket. Then at night it's on the charger.
Maybe I'm the weirdo that does everything with my phone BUT make phone calls and leave it in my pocket all day. It's why the Note 2 was excellent save for iWork and why the 6 Plus is truly a phone I can live with.
And with that, Apple PR team is now officially on overdrive! No sleep for them tonight!
I mentioned this previously and my non engineering background makes me think it's the fact that there are holes drilled in the device immediately opposite each other.
I believe this weakens the strength of the device in a single line running horizontally across from the bottom of the volume down button to the top of the sim tray, which is inline with where these bends are happening. This is most likely made worse by it happening towards the middle of the device amplifying the force at that point.
The most likely answer is to move the sim tray down 1cm for the 6S+.