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iPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days
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I'm trying to catch-up on this thread! Are people saying you should take the iPhone 6 Plus out of your front pant pocket because of bending? Or is it just the back pocket? Does it matter if you have a hard-shell case on your iPhone 6 Plus?
If you're a guy and worried about making babies, you shouldn't be carrying it in your front pocket anyway.
And yes, remove it when you sit.
I've had hundreds of phones over the last 15 years and never ever had a problem carrying them in my pocket.
man that's actually a legit study!. I didn't know tech companies actually do these kind of studies. seems like a bit of a trivial issue to be pouring funds into but I guess it would help with design.
4 people out of 300 have this issue.
People act like its 100 out of 300 have this issue.
ANY
ANY
ANY
product will have physical issues amounting to 1% and this is not even that..
please people...some logic...please.
People act like its 100 out of 300 have this issue.
ANY
ANY
ANY
product will have physical issues amounting to 1% and this is not even that..
please people...some logic...please.
An interesting question for me is whether people will still want the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus phones if this does become a well-known, legit problem (to me, it's already a legit problem but I mean seen widely as legit), deciding they love iPhones enough that they'll just have to put a rigid case on it and use kid gloves. E.g. I'm a slightly (increasingly?) begrudging Apple fan who is so damned devoted, apparently, that I'm willing to get a denser case (uglifying the phone) in order to keep all the bells and whistles, smoothness of user interface (and general overall quality, warping issues aside) that Apple offers. I'm not sure how I feel about that!
Nonsense, 10 MILLION sold and 3 people had this happen to them. There needs to be a Senate committee hearing and needs to be national headline news. This is completely unacceptable.
An interesting question for me is whether people will still want the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus phones if this does become a well-known, legit problem (to me, it's already a legit problem but I mean seen widely as legit), deciding they love iPhones enough that they'll just have to put a rigid case on it and use kid gloves. E.g. I'm a slightly (increasingly?) begrudging Apple fan who is so damned devoted, apparently, that I'm willing to get a denser case (uglifying the phone) in order to keep all the bells and whistles, smoothness of user interface (and general overall quality, warping issues aside) that Apple offers. I'm not sure how I feel about that!
Does it really matter how you feel? Apple sells you an 850$ base model 6s then you need applecare(99$), and an otter box (70$). Apple has had years to make a large screen phone, Samsung is already on the note 5 and has had large before that.
I kept hearing 4" is all people need. then once it looked like apple was going for giant phones the new line was apple waited so long because they wanted to do it right.
Now that its a turd, you will buy a case to cover it up!!
If you are really an apple fan, don't buy an iPhone that bends easy. Hurt their bottom line for a quarter or 2 and then you will see great products again.
We'll see in the coming days how big of an issue this is, but for all that is holy please stop making such lame excuses. Although it is fun reading thee other tech sites making fun of the die hard head in the sand apple apologists.
No other 5"+ phone on the market has this issue. I've personally had a Note 3 for the past year, keep it in my front pocket 90% of the time I'm not using it, and never had an issue. It sucks in many ways, mostly software, but it certainly is not a delicate flower. My expectation in coming back to Apple was to have a superior device at all levels. Easily bent is not superior or up to the Apple standard. Telling people they are "pocketing it wrong" is about as lame as it gets. Even more lame than you're holding it wrong.
We'll just have to wait and see if it is isolated issues or not.
No other 5"+ phone on the market has this issue. I've personally had a Note 3 for the past year, keep it in my front pocket 90% of the time I'm not using it, and never had an issue. It sucks in many ways, mostly software, but it certainly is not a delicate flower. My expectation in coming back to Apple was to have a superior device at all levels. Easily bent is not superior or up to the Apple standard. Telling people they are "pocketing it wrong" is about as lame as it gets. Even more lame than you're holding it wrong.
We'll just have to wait and see if it is isolated issues or not.
An interesting question for me is whether people will still want the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus phones if this does become a well-known, legit problem (to me, it's already a legit problem but I mean seen widely as legit), deciding they love iPhones enough that they'll just have to put a rigid case on it and use kid gloves. E.g. I'm a slightly (increasingly?) begrudging Apple fan who is so damned devoted, apparently, that I'm willing to get a denser case (uglifying the phone) in order to keep all the bells and whistles, smoothness of user interface (and general overall quality, warping issues aside) that Apple offers. I'm not sure how I feel about that!
3 people claim to have bent phones out of 10 MILLION and you think that's a legit problem?
Did you interview 10 million iPhone 6/6plus owners and check their phones yourself?
So far, this thread is the only place a see people crying about this. With the way all social media is in this day and age, this would have already started coming up. I have yet to hear about it anywhere else.
I saw a lot of people everywhere complaining of so called "fragmentation" and how bad apps look.
Hey guys, has this possible fix already been discussed?
http://symp.me/bendgate/how-to-fix-a-bent-iphone
I'm too scared to try this and it might not even work with the iPhone 6, but it looks legit.
http://symp.me/bendgate/how-to-fix-a-bent-iphone
I'm too scared to try this and it might not even work with the iPhone 6, but it looks legit.
Um, yeah, no. I did look it up. Not much there except for a few that talk about it all linking back here. So no.
Maybe in the US, country of everybody's darling Apple is not picking it up yet, but in Germany its already published on a lot of tech media sites, here is an example:
http://www.mobilegeeks.de/bentgate-...ufer-beschweren-sich-ueber-verbogene-geraete/
Even LG Germany used this already in a FB post:
http://www.facebook.com/LG
While I agree that this is not yet widely discussed in the (social) media, it has created some awareness and if there really is a problem we will see more pictures/posts of iphone 6+ been bent by using it in the pocket. Lets not forget that the initial batch of 6+ was/is very small and still lots of folks are waiting for their 6+ to be delivered.
If we don't see much more cases of bent iphone 6+ until october/november, then I will also agree that this is an extremely small percentage of folks and we don't need to worry anymore... But its still to early to say it at this point. For example the whole antenna-gate issue also boiled up in the media weeks after the release!
It's not an exception I am afraid, it's simple physics and structural integrity. I fabricate and build with metal and plastics a lot for my work as a location photographer and how materials stress, bend or break under different directional or vibrational loads is always a top concern.
When I saw how thin these phones were upon introduction...especially the 6 plus, I practically cringed. I use pants for work that have a small side pocket that is out of the bend position of sitting, lots of shorts, cargo and hiking pants have these. And whenever I do have to wear dress pants or jeans, I am always very considerate of how the phone is sitting in the pocket, never putting a phone in the back pocket for obvious reasons of theft or breakage.
I have owned the iPhone 3, 4 and 5 and have never bent one but I bet even the regular 6 will bend a lot easier because instead of having a more structurally sound box truss design like on the 4 & 5, the 6 is round, easier to bend, period. Imagine the iPhone 5 series being 1/2 as thick...that is how thin the build ratio of the 6+ is...
I think we are going to see this bending a lot on the 6+ folks, it is simple physics and structural design, give it a month or two. Also, asking people to not put a theft prone phone in their pocket is ridiculous, that is not going to happen.
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I'm sorry, the iPhone isn't a phone? Wow, I missed that memo. Silly me.
I'm an Apple fan like everybody here, but the people defending Apple are pathetic. My friend has a Note 3, and guess how many times it's bent in his pocket? Never. Apple used aluminum, which is a pretty soft metal. Hell, I've seen people with bent MacBook Pros.
I have a Plus, and I now know I need to be a little more careful with it, which I figured since it's got a larger surface area of screen to break.
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