If Apple is going to charge us a premium price for their phone, it better me capable of resisting an certain amount of pressure without bending. Its just common sense. As much as I love to blame some stupid people, there is an 50% responsibility from Apple to sell an product that is construct solid enough to withstand every day use.
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iPhone 6 Plus Bending Limits Tested in New Video
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iPhone 4 user: I lost reception when I am holding my phone.
You are not holding it right. Here is a free case that should solve your problem.
iPhone 6 Plus user: My phone was bent when I put it in my pocket.
You are not storing it right. Here is a free case that should solve your problem.
Come on Apple! We need some free cases!
You are not holding it right. Here is a free case that should solve your problem.
iPhone 6 Plus user: My phone was bent when I put it in my pocket.
You are not storing it right. Here is a free case that should solve your problem.
Come on Apple! We need some free cases!
Hmm... IPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5s, 5c... The world says 'oh Apple isn't innovative or spectacular because their phones are so much smaller than the Samsung/HTC/etc'. iPhone 6, 6+... 'Oh Apple put out a bigger phone to copy Samsung/HTC/etc, and theirs is bendy and fragile.' Blah blah blah. It seems like no matter what is done, it's never good enough for the masses. Some people out there will just point out the negatives of every device that they can come up with, just to show the weakness of the competition.
Here's a bit of advice: don't drop your phone, ANY PHONE, because they're liable to break somewhere. And if you've got a giant phone, get bigger pockets. No device is impervious to damage. Suck it up, learn from it, move on. It isn't rocket science, folks. Metal bends, glass breaks. Welcome to the world of electronics, nothing is perfect.
Hmm, the followup video with a Note 3 bend test says it all.
Not unreasonable to want your phone to stay straight.
Just by looking at the camera bulge you can tell that thinness was their top priority which makes little sense. Every single review (and Ive seen over 10) mention the camera bulge as a negative. Granted even if you make the body flush with the camera you could still have this bending issue but that just proves that making the product as thin as possible was number one on the list. When you make something so thin you limit what you can do with the internal structure.
Apple serious needs to stop this lets make the product thin as possible non-sense. I personally will be getting a mophie battery case for the 4.7 so it should make it less susceptible to bending and greater battery life; both of both worlds. Notice the word less because nothing is bend proof.
Cars are not meant to be run into walls. Phone ARE meant to be carried in pockets.
EDIT: Actually, I'll go even further with your analogy -- modern cars are specifically designed to crumple when run into a wall, to absorb as much of the force of the impact as possible. Older cars were not made to do this, and were less safe in an accident. So, to sum up -- cars with "crumple zones," and phones that can be carried in a front pocket without becoming deformed, are both examples of good engineering.
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Come on Apple! We need some free cases!
I don't think the case from Apple does anything beyond making the phone easier to hold... It will just happily bend along with the phone...
Exactly.
And the followup video of a Note 3 bend test shows how the competition handles such stress, which is relevant information.
Folks need to baby their iPhones. Period. I baby all my Apple products.
My Galaxy S4 gets banded about, but the back is easily and inexpensively replaced, so going case-less is not really a concern. Still, I skin, not case all my portable devices. Same goes for my wife's Note 3. in both cases, flex is a non-issue.
It sucks though, and it is certainly bad design (and PR), that the iPhone is so "flex-y".
This is the iPhone 6, this should NOT happen at this stage of product release.
That may be. Or it could be that they were structurally different (they are).
The curvy, tube shape of the 6 contributes to its weakness. The hard-edged, rectangular frame of the 4/4s is more rigid by design.
Still, Apple should have accounted for their choices and modified their design accordingly.
That the phones are so easily bent is indefensible.
The problem is not every adult on the planet who knows this. The problem is with the only adult who doesn't: John Ive. That is, the guy who keep building bigger and bigger phones while making them thinner and sticking to the choice of a soft metal... Worse: as he does that, he also removes structures in the inside of the phone, so that he ends up with just a flat surface of aluminium...
I don't see why you shouldn't be angry at a company for making bad decisions...
If your home turns to ruin, you're not angry at the architect for making bad decisions? I never understood that attitude that always find excuses for the people in responsability...
Well, problem solved for the iPhone: after two back and forth, the screen breaks...
Obviously. We know from a Nokia study that 60% of the male population carries their smartphone in their pant pockets. Besides, "men purse" are very connoted in many part of the world and you won't see an heterosexual with one.
What do you think of a design choice that has fatal problems with much more than 30% of the customer base (men buy more gadgets than females and I doubt that 0% of the female use pant pockets)?
Moreover, if this iPhone bends in a pocket, it will bend in many women purses - my girlfriend purse seriously weights at least 5kg and everything, including iPhone, is just packed with no order inside it. Her 3GS and her 5C both survives fine in that, but I doubt a 6+ or even a 6 would...
I have an iPod touch and never put it in a pocket because the earbud cable gets tangled and usually at least one of the foam cushions gets yanked off. So out of curiosity, what do people do with the earbuds when they stash the iPhone in their pocket?
The iphone 4s was not made from aluminum. It was made from glass/ a thin layer of protective plastic near the glass and stainless steel. Compare steel to aluminum.
Yeah same thing with my sunglasses, I sat on them in the car and they broke. I wrote the company because of the "design flaw". They should have been shaped like my A** then would not have broken. Totally the companies fault not mine.
True story: I dropped my glasses in a parking lot, then drove off not knowing. Came back fifteen mins later to find some inconsiderate slob drove over them. Brought the crushed frames and lenses in to my optometrist, and joked that for me, this was "normal wear and tear." He agreed and replaced them.
So, I guess Applecare better get ready for a lot of "wear and tear" 6+ returns.
This is worrying...I am planning to go to Hongkong to buy a ipjone 6+ or 6 in December....
P.s all those people defending the iphone to death...I hope yours bend. And then you will see how serious this problem is. This is clearly an issue and some are just comoletely ubsurdly defending the build quality...like some sort of religion.