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iPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days

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Geckotek said:
Wow, you really think it's that hard to take your phone out of your pocket?
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It's not hard, it's just idiotic. And that you can be content about this situation is just insane. Or you're just an obsessive-compulsive personality and doing this suits your patterns.

A phone, like any device, is meant to be forgotten until you need it. Then, you use it and you forget it again once you're done. A phone is not something that you should waste your attention to manage when you don't need it. It's not about not being able to do that, it's just about not wanting to.

It became a habit long ago when I started realizing that my sitting on it could break it. I believe with the 4...perhaps the 3G.
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Well, you put my anatomy in doubt, but now I wonder about yours if you manage to sit ON a phone that is in your front pant pocket...
And wow. I have had an iPhone since the 3G and Smartphone since the first HTC and they have all been in my pocket. And non has broken. Actually, since my phone iPhone and its glass display, none has even had a single scratch.
That's really obsessive and being overly careful, I think, and you really ruined the experience of having a phone in the right place for nothing. Especially with the 3G and 4 which were extremely well built phones.

Seriously, it's not a difficult thing to remove your phone from your pocket.
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It's not difficult, but it's annoying. Besides, once the phone is out of your pocket, you have to keep it somewhere is not meant to be for hours. If you keep it visible, you will attract thieves (which, frankly, are a much much higher probability than bending a 4S in your pocket!). If you keep it in your hands while not using it, you have a probability of letting it fall and breaking it. And if you have sweaty palms, honestly, corrosion from salty walter is a higher risk on a 4S than bending.

For problem is not that it's difficult. It's just that you're asking to remove a phone from its safest place (your pocket) and then to bother with putting it somewhere else when it will be both less safe and less useful or more annoying.

Edit: Oh, also being in IT almost 20 years myself, makes me realize that a pocket being bent while I sit is not the best place for delicate electronic devices.
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It's not a delicate electronic device, it's a phone. It's meant to be manipulated much more roughly than a desktop computer - at least it was until the iPhone 6. And electronic is not delicate - my desktop GPU often runs at 100°C and it works fine, I never had a phone get this warm, even while using GPS and 3G inside my pocket.
As I said, I always carried my phones in my pocket and I never had one fail on me, I was always able to resell them for a good price.

I wonder how many of these guys with phones in their pockets are trying to have babies? Just a thought...
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I have had a phone in my pockets for the past 15 years and I have had absolutely no trouble having a baby at 42 with a woman of the same age, we didn't even have to wait more than a few months. Honestly, if you're concerned about your fertility, you have a lot more things to worry about than your phone in your pocket...
Besides, if you're concerned about radiations, what about exposing your hands or your heart all day long by not carrying your phone in your pocket ? I need hands or a heart much more than I need spermatozoids...
 
Lictor said:
It's not hard, it's just idiotic. And that you can be content about this situation is just insane. Or you're just an obsessive-compulsive personality and doing this suits your patterns.

A phone, like any device, is meant to be forgotten until you need it. Then, you use it and you forget it again once you're done. A phone is not something that you should waste your attention to manage when you don't need it. It's not about not being able to do that, it's just about not wanting to.



Well, you put my anatomy in doubt, but now I wonder about yours if you manage to sit ON a phone that is in your front pant pocket...
And wow. I have had an iPhone since the 3G and Smartphone since the first HTC and they have all been in my pocket. And non has broken. Actually, since my phone iPhone and its glass display, none has even had a single scratch.
That's really obsessive and being overly careful, I think, and you really ruined the experience of having a phone in the right place for nothing. Especially with the 3G and 4 which were extremely well built phones.



It's not difficult, but it's annoying. Besides, once the phone is out of your pocket, you have to keep it somewhere is not meant to be for hours. If you keep it visible, you will attract thieves (which, frankly, are a much much higher probability than bending a 4S in your pocket!). If you keep it in your hands while not using it, you have a probability of letting it fall and breaking it. And if you have sweaty palms, honestly, corrosion from salty walter is a higher risk on a 4S than bending.

For problem is not that it's difficult. It's just that you're asking to remove a phone from its safest place (your pocket) and then to bother with putting it somewhere else when it will be both less safe and less useful or more annoying.



It's not a delicate electronic device, it's a phone. It's meant to be manipulated much more roughly than a desktop computer - at least it was until the iPhone 6. And electronic is not delicate - my desktop GPU often runs at 100°C and it works fine, I never had a phone get this warm, even while using GPS and 3G inside my pocket.
As I said, I always carried my phones in my pocket and I never had one fail on me, I was always able to resell them for a good price.



I have had a phone in my pockets for the past 15 years and I have had absolutely no trouble having a baby at 42 with a woman of the same age, we didn't even have to wait more than a few months. Honestly, if you're concerned about your fertility, you have a lot more things to worry about than your phone in your pocket...
Besides, if you're concerned about radiations, what about exposing your hands or your heart all day long by not carrying your phone in your pocket ? I need hands or a heart much more than I need spermatozoids...
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Look, there's no need to get rude. It's not idiotic, it's just common sense. I do not keep my phone in my front pocket, I prefer the back which means if I sit it would be under me.

Being 42 and about to marry, thanks for the info that you had no issues having babies. However, there are studies proving that cell phone radiation near the testicles damages sperm. I'll be continuing to keep mine in my back pocket and pull it out when I sit.
 
I think everyone needs to focus on how to NOT bend your phone. That's the only thing you can control now.
 
I've always had my phones in my front pocket. Well other than my Motorola luggable models from the late eighties ;)

Come to think about it, the only time I have ever popped mine in a back pocket is in my pj which doesn't have s front pocket.

The phones have always been fine, my seed is super fertile, and never bent a phone or anything else by having it in my pocket.

I'll keep on carrying mine in my pocket, and in the unlikely event that this is turning into s widespread issue then apple will replace it anyway.
 
Honestly this thread sounds like a bunch of little old ladies who just traded in their Buicks for F350 crew cab duallies and are surprised when they have a hard time parking it at the hairdressers. Then when they squeeze it into their normal spot and the doors get all dinged up they go to Ford to complain. :rolleyes:
 
I am tempted to try going to an apple store and try to apply some force and see if their set would bend as well hmmmmm
 
So to tally it up we have...

2 6+'s bent in the front pocket
1 6 bent in the front pocket
1 6+ bent from the factory

100's of concerned on-lookers wanting to see where this goes.

12 Apple fanbois that Apple could never disappoint and who are really concerned about sperm.
 
scrtagntman said:
So to tally it up we have...

2 6+'s bent in the front pocket
1 6 bent in the front pocket
1 6+ bent from the factory

100's of concerned on-lookers wanting to see where this goes.

12 Apple fanbois that Apple could never disappoint and who are really concerned about sperm.
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And millions and millions of users with NO issues at all...

Let's do the math.

Hmm. Ok. /THREAD
 
scrtagntman said:
So to tally it up we have...

2 6+'s bent in the front pocket
1 6 bent in the front pocket
1 6+ bent from the factory

100's of concerned on-lookers wanting to see where this goes.

12 Apple fanbois that Apple could never disappoint and who are really concerned about sperm.
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To be clear, I'm not a fanboy. See other threads where I'm pissed about the size. I am quick to criticize Apple where I feel they are wrong. This is not one of those situations. I expect the bent phones to remain an extremely small minority.
 
lithonius said:
Let's really do the math. There aren't "millions and millions" of people walking around with iPhone 6's yet. :apple:
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And let's do even more math, a very large percentage of them are not and never will be found on a site like this.

Again, if this is a serious issue, it will take a week or two, maybe three to fully be realized.
 
revenent said:
I am tempted to try going to an apple store and try to apply some force and see if their set would bend as well
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That is actually exactly what I plan to do before buying mine... I already tried to put the 6+ in my front pocket and moving around, I know it fits just right and that there is plenty of room left to sit. But I certainly do have to do some bending tests...
I guess that by the end of the month, either all the iPhone in all Apple Stores will be bend or that we will be sure they don't bend...
 
Geckotek said:
It's not idiotic, it's just common sense. I do not keep my phone in my front pocket, I prefer the back which means if I sit it would be under me.
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Errr... Common sense is NOT to put it in your back pocket! Do that in the public transport of any major city and you will not have to bother with removing it when you seat, thieves will have taken care of it for you. The back pocket is probably the #1 spot where things get stolen: it's out of sight, it's not a very sensitive part of your body (good thieves know how to trick your nerves in believing the phone is still there) and it's already where they go look for your wallet... And phones account nowadays for most of the theft in public transportation.
As I said, the probability of being victim of bending is much lower than the probability of having your phone stolen...
Not to mention than in a busy subway, people don't usually bump into your front pockets, but they will crash into your back pocket all the time as they try to compress enough bodies to hop on the ride. Even if the phone doesn't bend, you're going to have a broken screen...
Not to mention that if you ever lose balance and fall, it will most likely be on your butt and not on your front pockets - not only will you break your phone, but you will also get injured by it.

Going through all this troubles just to have your phone broken or stolen seems like a lot when you can just put it in your front pockets with a little risk of bending (at least the iPhone 5 and 6, all other phones have no risk at all) but a lot less risk of anything else. A bent phone is much cheaper to replace than a stolen phone...

"However, there are studies proving that cell phone radiation near the testicles damages sperm. I'll be continuing to keep mine in my back pocket"

So, you're concern about your testicules (I'm not anymore, already got my kid), yet you keep your radiating phone on top of you sciatic nerve... If it is indeed capable of damaging organs by radiations, you're in for an extremely painful and debilitating ride when that nerve got damaged...
If you're really concerned about radiation, just put your phone in your backpack where it will be safer anyway...
 
macenied said:
IMO some people are not objective here - they purchesed the 6 + and therefore it must be good. This does not help and does not make the 6 + better.

I'm curious what Apple will do with this issue.
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It's not an issue

http://www.cultofmac.com/248603/iphone-5ses-are-bending-in-peoples-pockets/

Did apple do anything do about this ? Did you bother posting about it ? Your views are exponentially biased due to its thinness so your view that it contributes to it when thinness does not have to do with bending it's the same frame as the i5s with components inside which are smaller
 
To all folks saying that they have seen a lot videos iphone6 being drop tested and not being bent. Those are other forces and cannot be compared to somebody having the phone in its front pockets or bumping slightly into someone else and bending the phone as a result.

Like I said before, what somebody needs to do is a flex test of the iphone 6 and 6+ and compare the results with previous generations of iphones and its competitors. Then we will know for sure how strong/weak the iphone 6+ is!

I'm thinking of a machine like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVVfFEz5jgM

I also think that the amount of people having "micro-bents" (the beginning) on their iphone6+ is higher then we think. Since not every iphone 6+ owner will check with a ruler if their phone is bent or not, we will never know how many phones are really bent. Like I said, this thread helps to create awareness and people might be more careful and observe their phone more critically and if this in the end leads to a better product from Apple then its a good thing!
 
hasanahmad said:
Your views are exponentially biased due to its thinness so your view that it contributes to it when thinness does not have to do with bending it's the same frame as the i5s with components inside which are smaller
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This Is completely false. The new iphone uses rounded edges which are not as strong as the boxed found in the 4&5. My wife and I have never bent our 5 & 5s and in my case, I am on the very high end of active.

There is also insight into how delicate the internals are on the 6 & 6+ from the iFixit tear down, no bolstering of the button areas and no spars or truss on the backplane.

The iphone 6 and 6+ are totally different designs than the 5 series, from the inside out.
 
Macshroomer said:
This Is completely false. The new iphone uses rounded edges which are not as strong as the boxed found in the 4&5. My wife and I have never bent our 5 & 5s and in my case, I am on the very high end of active.

There is also insight into how delicate the internals are on the 6 & 6+ from the iFixit tear down, no bolstering of the button areas and no spars or truss on the backplane.

The iphone 6 and 6+ are totally different designs than the 5 series, from the inside out.
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Well that's ridiculous just because you and your wife didn't bend your 5s doesn't mean others didn't. You see how ridiculous your argument looks now? It's isolated, just because 3 people have bent phones doesn't mean hundreds of thousands do as well. The anodized aluminium is the same process which means the thickness of the frame itself is the same but the internals got smaller. Look at any frame picture of both 6 and 5 and it's the same it's only the internals which got smaller

Why do you put so much wager on 3 people being a major issue when the same thing happened when the 5 and 5s came out and the launch now is bigger than the launch then
 
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:rolleyes:
 
hasanahmad said:
Well that's ridiculous just because you and your wife didn't bend your 5s doesn't mean others didn't. You see how ridiculous your argument looks now? It's isolated, just because 3 people have bent phones doesn't mean hundreds of thousands do as well. The anodized aluminium is the same process which means the thickness of the frame itself is the same but the internals got smaller. Look at any frame picture of both 6 and 5 and it's the same it's only the internals which got smaller

Why do you put so much wager on 3 people being a major issue when the same thing happened when the 5 and 5s came out and the launch now is bigger than the launch then
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Have you ever heared about the law of the lever ? And why you know all is the "same" ? You can see this ? :rolleyes:
 
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