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iPhone 6 Plus slightly bent after 2 days
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Now there's an endorsement!!
My thought exactly. OP are you 100% sure it wasn't already bent? Same with that second poster with the photo.
The bends seem very similar, so I guess it could go either way (a batch coming like that, or suffering the same fate in the field).
These bends happen VERY easily, it seems. It's most likely that it wasn't bent when he got it. Although it's also possible a few will come bent just from being accidentally bent before boxing - ugh!
maybe they should made them plastic and 9mm thick?
you know... like the competition
The was a way to know how pocketable this big phone is. Look at all the other huge phones on the market. I've been saying for a while now that the 6+ is too big for me to carry around comfortably in my pockets every day. And I have been criticized for saying that. This phone is huge. This is not news.
How exactly is Apple supposed to address this? Make the phone smaller? Give every 6+ buyer a pair of pants with bigger pockets?
It's true, common sense isn't that common any more.
Google for something like "Galaxy bent front pocket" and see that this is not a completely new phenomenon. Try "cracked" even.
I think I remember your post! I saw it when I was reading these forums when my husband's retina mini bent even though he always hand carries it and it's really well cared for. He simply unbent it with his bare hands.
Well...I thank the OP for this thread. Now I know even though I can carry the Plus I the front pocket of my dumpy old mom jeans, I shouldn't. Or it will end up accordioned like the cardboard model I was trying on for size! I'm glad I saw this before my Plus got shipped to me. Thanks for sharing and I'm so sorry this happened to you. Best of luck to you on getting it replaced.
It's still a phone....
People have bought the plus to use....as a phone! You're saying that a phablet shouldn't be used as a phone?
Not sure what you're trying to get at here. This is obviously not how a phone should behave under normal circumstances...you can't be saying he shouldn't have it in his pocket.
Ain't just a river in Egypt. His leg's rounded and his skin is warm. That's all it takes if the phone is laying against his warm bump of a leg, unfortunately. Hahaha. That's what some of us are trying to get across here. It takes very little to bend it. For it to stay flat it has to always be flat.
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I am saying that a larger device should not be expected to fit into the same spaces as smaller ones. That is not a reasonable expectation. While I understand that plus owners may be accustomed to doing so, there will be more bent phones as a result of this until folks change their behavior. But I do not think Apple should pay for these issues as these costs ultimately get passed onto all consumers.
And people who buy iPhones on a regular basis know this? This is beside the point, it's primarily a phone and used as one. Most men put their phone in their front pocket. You and others need to stop reprimanding people who do what millions of people do around the world.
I received my iPhone 6 Plus 64GB spacegray at about 3pm on Friday and set it up, but haven't worn it out that day, so it wasn't in my pocket.
Yesterday, I left at 10am with the iPhone in my left front pocket of my suit pants. I drove 4 hours to a wedding, which also involved a lot of sitting during dinner etc but also 2-3 hours of dancing. I left at 2m and went to bed, driving home 4 hours back.
So in total, the 6 Plus was about 18 hours in my pocket while sitting mostly.
As I lay it on the coffee table and sat down on the couch to relax from the drive (yes, sitting again), I saw the reflection of the window in the iPhones slightly distorted. Now I lay it flat with the display side on the table, take a look.
Maybe at 5.5" it is too thin?
That's sad, but its the first curved iphone6 plus.
That's not reassuring, imo.... First of all, the results I can find are very limited, whereas we already have two to three phones posted on here. Second, just as Apple commands staggering sales, they also have very high expectations. I expect better from them over the competition.
So? That's irrelevant.
Seriously?
Use some common sense people. It's a large, thin piece of aluminum. It will bend when enough force is applied. That's not a "defect", that is simple science. Apple doesn't have some magical way of making things indestructible. These things are too big to go in your pocket while sitting down.
Shirt pocket for me all the way. every time I see a teenager/young person put their phone in their BACK pants pocket I simply cringe. Pathetic.
Front pocket is better, but stuff like what this thread is about will certainly happen. And the bigger taller longer the phone, the more it will happen. Apple does not change physics.
Precisely why I am getting the 6 rather than the plus. Precisely.
Front pocket is better, but stuff like what this thread is about will certainly happen. And the bigger taller longer the phone, the more it will happen. Apple does not change physics.
Precisely why I am getting the 6 rather than the plus. Precisely.
I'm glad I found this thread. It goes along with what I've been asking about here;
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1783589/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1783589/
Agreed, but I will add that it's probably not just thinness -- the 6 Plus is also a very long phone. In fact, it's a whole centimetre longer than the Note 3. When you combine that with the thinness -- well, perhaps these incidents were to be expected?
You'd think Apple would test how it fares with use though. Something's a little strange about this.
Correct, larger devices shouldn't be expected into to fit into the same spaces as smaller ones, that's not scientifically possible. What is possible is to build a phone that doesn't bend. Your argument is again flawed.
I was thinking this too, it does make sense to get away from aluminum. (But I have not bent any of my iPhones or iPods either)
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