I guess I missed Apple's announcement that the 6+ was its flagship. Please reference when and where that announcement was made.
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iPhone 6 Subjected to Bend Test, Proves More Durable Than iPhone 6 Plus
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I guess I missed Apple's announcement that the 6+ was its flagship. Please reference when and where that announcement was made.
Found this interesting, scientific bend test for a 6+, note 3, and iPhone 5.
100 lbs of pressure on each:
http://www.ubreakifix.com/blog/iphone-6-plus-scientific-bend-test/
100 lbs of pressure on each:
http://www.ubreakifix.com/blog/iphone-6-plus-scientific-bend-test/
I never saw anyone put an iPad in their pocket or carry it around like a phone. There is no flaw in the iPhone 6 bending this is just a extremely minor case of some irresponsible adults not taking care of a product. Or they are apple haters probably paid by samsung to give some sort of bad press. Just kidding on the last one but never know anything wouldn't surprise me. Im actually surprised this is making news, i know many americans or people for that matter are irresponsible and dumb but my god this is just sad that there are people so irresponsible that are breeding in the world too. Is outterbox going to make a case for their babies next so they don't drop and bend them. If you disagree and think this could be a real problem without people putting severe force on the phone then you maybe take a look in the mirror and think of how you can acquire some common sense. If I'm wrong and this turns out to be a real problem i will eat my words but i am 100% positive this will blow over and be nothing within 2-4 days once people see how much force is required to make it bend
Who knows. Why do we have to believe him? Yes, maybe it was bent by just being in his pocket... or maybe he left it in a pair of jeans that were on the floor and someone else put something heavy on it.
My point being, we can't believe everything we read/see on the internet, so the more we question and compare, the better.
Yeah it was just a play on words. Like saying get the iPhone 6 over the 6+... I can't believe how many people didn't get that lol
This is why you don't use car analogies. Go run a 1950s Ford (or anything else from that era) into a pole. It'll disintegrate. The modern car is merely bent up. Better luck with your next analogy.
Bravo. Exactly my thoughts. I don't understand what's the discussion here, people talking about cases ext. A phone shouldn't bend in your pockets, especially a premium phone that costs a load of money. It shouldn't and the videos prove that the 6+ is the most bendable among the top smartphones. It's just embarrassing, even more so than the awful design (protruding camera, the antenna lines, big ass bezels).
I'm utterly disappointed with the "sixes". I'll probably get the 6 somewhere along the line, because my iPhone 4S is getting too small and underpowered, but man I wish I could wait for iPhone 7 - guess the 6S will be the same kind of monstrosity. Maybe at iPhone 7 they'll make the big iPhone without a protruding camera and without the unnecessary bezels.
Whereas iPhone 4S looked like a phone from the future, the iPhone 6 looks like a phone from the past. But not the "vintage" kind of past...
haha I thought I was the only one. I was holding my wife's iPod touch 5th gen and wanted to bend it so badly. She was not amused
Two tremendous (and refreshing) posts looking at the situation realistically. The more things are swept under the carpet by the apologists, the worst off we are as Apple fans, for Apple will think that their users are accepting of, or have a better threshold for their flaws, including design.
Thank you for this. Finally a real test. So 100lbs to barely bend it, but it's permanent when it does. Makes sense. I guess one has to decide if they are OK with that. If not simply return your iPhone and get a galaxy. Otherwise take more care not to bend your new expensive iPhone 6.
It's called choice people. Or are you Americans so entitled that you dont want choice, you want one option that should apparently fit everyone.
I'm no longer defending apple and believe people really do bend their phones. But return them then. Most of the complainers here actually don't hve bent phones and some don't even have 6+'s at all!!
If there is going to be mass returns because of this, apple will do something. But it seems 99% of the complaining is coming from people that don't own an iPhone 6+ or are a competitor trying to prove that their phone doesn't bend but is 5-6mm thicker.
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And, of course, in order for that 100lbs to create a slight bend, there has to be ZERO opposing force underneath the phone. That's obviously not going to occur with a phone placed vertically in someone's front pocket.
I'm in shock. The soft, cheap stuff used to make soda cans bends with pressure.
Just because apple has convinced some that what they use for phones is a miraculous substance doesn't make it so. It's aluminum, aluminum is soft and bends. It will bend with pressure depending on the size, thickness, etc.
That's life. There's a whole lot of things out there you can find out for yourself and it's much more accurate than what some company wants you to believe.
Seriously though the biggest problem is apples obsession with thinness. It's like bending a flat sheet of thin aluminum while the phones with the curved backs did not bend at all.
Fixes? Alter the design with more support, ie curved back. Put a steel support plate inside like the 5c has or.......my choice.......this would not stop me from getting a 6 plus, this is a lot of money to me so I would treat it like an expensive mini computer with a case. I have big hands anyway, so the 5c is too thin for me without a case. I use a spigen tough armor, makes the thickness perfect for my hands, I would probably use the same on a 6 plus.
I wish I had the money to come up with a line of cases with thin steel support embedded in plastic. I forsee them selling well with the fear mongering.
Just because apple has convinced some that what they use for phones is a miraculous substance doesn't make it so. It's aluminum, aluminum is soft and bends. It will bend with pressure depending on the size, thickness, etc.
That's life. There's a whole lot of things out there you can find out for yourself and it's much more accurate than what some company wants you to believe.
Seriously though the biggest problem is apples obsession with thinness. It's like bending a flat sheet of thin aluminum while the phones with the curved backs did not bend at all.
Fixes? Alter the design with more support, ie curved back. Put a steel support plate inside like the 5c has or.......my choice.......this would not stop me from getting a 6 plus, this is a lot of money to me so I would treat it like an expensive mini computer with a case. I have big hands anyway, so the 5c is too thin for me without a case. I use a spigen tough armor, makes the thickness perfect for my hands, I would probably use the same on a 6 plus.
I wish I had the money to come up with a line of cases with thin steel support embedded in plastic. I forsee them selling well with the fear mongering.
So how much force are we talking in a pocket here if you take everything into account. 100, 200, 300 lbs?
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Spoken like a true entrepreneur. This is a good opportunity for a company that will do something like that.
A realist would point out that the bending videos are not at all accurate to what could potentially happen in someone's front pocket.
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If you put the phone vertically into your pocket, then there are two opposing forces: the downward force of the top of the pocket and the upward force of the top of your leg. In the bending videos, the phone only bends if they either completely remove the opposing force from the bottom or limit it to an isolated point (like someone's thumb pressing upward on the bottom while their hands pull downward from the top). Neither of those two limitations are going to occur if the phone is against your leg vertically.
That actually makes sense. So a double whammy when being bent in the pocket.
It's interesting , when I first held the 6+ my first thoughts were I should not keep it in my front pocket because it will be too tight and will break the phone when I sit down. But that's common sense since the phone is narrow and long. Wasn't aware that withstanding this type of pressure is the norm and people expect all large devices to be reinforced to their lifestyle
Well I don't think it'll bend to the extreme shown in the video in anyone's pocket, but I believe it is plausible to get a slight bend
Here's one: The aluminum used on the skin of your passenger jet is less expensive than the aluminum used to make the pop cans the attendents serve you. And yes, Apple is not using expensive 3104 pop can alloy. I suspect the root of the problem is the lack of proper heat treating. I'm a broken record on this.
The phone does not need support parallel to the back but rather transverse. Magnesium 1mm *thin* bonded to the inner sides of the aluminum would do it. It is also the material you want in your case designs. Please go build it.
Just Cancelled my iPhone 6 Plus order.
Will wait for the S version next year. Hopefully Apple will fix all these problems by then.
My iPhone 5 is still going great.
Will wait for the S version next year. Hopefully Apple will fix all these problems by then.
My iPhone 5 is still going great.