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iPhone 6 Subjected to Bend Test, Proves More Durable Than iPhone 6 Plus
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I had a completely different viewpoint after watching this video and the previous 6+ video. I thought it was amazing how much stress he was putting on the phones and they weren't breaking!
I had a completely different viewpoint after watching this video and the previous 6+ video. I thought it was amazing how much stress he was putting on the phones and they weren't breaking!
If you had a hairline fracture that sounds like a defective case, this video clearly shows the 6 can withstand "bending" and "pocket use" alot better then the 6 + and seems very solid and sturdy, seems alot less malleable then the 6 plus and it went back to its original form also
What were they thinking? Who needs thin? More batter life and less bezel
(for an even shorter phone while keeping a 5.5" screen size) even as you add some thickness would have been great.
I hope they fix it next year. I'll keep my iPhone 6 and skip the 6+.
Fools!
How did that get past quality control??!!
Thinner is not always better.
Well maybe the thin case is in anticipation of the robust case you will need to add. How about this?
Design an iPhone that does not need an extra case every single time
!I wonder what will happen if Apple do come out and say - sorry folks, we made an error, the 6 plus is prone to bending.
Will all those posters who are dismissing this issue as some heinous anti-Apple plot also hold their hands up, or will they say Apple is wrong and there is nothing untoward with the 6 plus?
Just a thought.
Will all those posters who are dismissing this issue as some heinous anti-Apple plot also hold their hands up, or will they say Apple is wrong and there is nothing untoward with the 6 plus?
Just a thought.
It sounds like the moral of the story is, "If you don't want your phone to bend, don't sit on it."
what an insight.
What were they thinking? Who needs thin? More batter life and less bezel
(for an even shorter phone while keeping a 5.5" screen size) even as you add some thickness would have been great.
I hope they fix it next year. I'll keep my iPhone 6 and skip the 6+.
I feel like I want to join a huge protest march of hundreds of thousands in front of Apple HQ: "MORE BATTERY LESS BEZEL MORE BATTERY LESS BEZEL MORE BATTERY LESS BEZEL MORE BATTERY LESS BEZEL!!!!!!"
I would prefer it to return to the shape it was before bending. Most of the 'cheap and ugly plastic phones' do that.
Like I have said before: Using aluminium for devices like this is a very bad choice - all about style and no thoughts made for real world wear and tear.
No, but people's physic knowledge fail bigtime.
Law of Nature:
If you apply force per area to any materials of an 'x' length and 'y' width and 'z' thickness at a certain amount of time, at some point it will bend and break.
I just got back from t-mobile and activated my iPhone 6 plus.
Which, was the first one that store had seen, so they were excited to see it.
Anyway - so as promised I took my old Optimus T in the back yard and tried to bend it with my thumbs, had my daugher filming it.
Wow, the glass creaked the case came open about 3mm, but I have to say, when I was done - the thing didn't break and hadn't bent, not really...the case is a little ajar.
tough old phone - even if it was worthless as a smartphone.
Which, was the first one that store had seen, so they were excited to see it.
Anyway - so as promised I took my old Optimus T in the back yard and tried to bend it with my thumbs, had my daugher filming it.
Wow, the glass creaked the case came open about 3mm, but I have to say, when I was done - the thing didn't break and hadn't bent, not really...the case is a little ajar.
tough old phone - even if it was worthless as a smartphone.
Exactly... you bend something that's supposed to be straight, what's going to happen? You're gonna break it!
I personally think phablets are stupid because they simply don't fit in my pockets (with my wallet... which goes on the same side as my phone because I keep keys/change on the other side which would scratch the hell out of my wallet/phone).
To me, forcing a phablet into the pockets of your standard-cut jeans is stupid. I can only think of it being uncomfortable, and can definitely see potential for it to damage a $1000+ (AUD, unlocked) electronic device!!!
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS!!!!!
1) Firstly, bend an android, so that you can learn that bending phones MAY cause damage/complete failure of the device. BENDERS BEWARE!!!
2) Unless you still have a pair of cargos from the 90s or like wearing baggy army pants, DON'T put your phablet into your pocket. It will be uncomfortable and MAY cause damage to the phone when you sit down/bend (funnily enough). HIPSTERS WITH CHINOS (or whatever you call them, tight pants in weird colours with elastic down the bottom)... NO!! DON'T EVEN TRY FORCING A PHABLET INTO THOSE POCKETS!! NO!! STOP IT!!! Little asian girls with size 6 pants and phablets bigger than their heads... same story! Put it in your handbag!!
3) On that note everybody... before buyin a phablet, THINK!! They are MF huge!! I find my iPhone 6 MF huge!! I didn't buy a phablet... a] because they are too big to use with 1 hand, and; b] because I knew I'd need a man bag to carry one. Don't buy a phablet without a man bag, a handbag, baggy cargos, rapper jeans or an 80's belt clip!!!
Remember the belt clip? Phones used to be this big!! Why did we make them bigger again? I DON'T KNOW!!! However, back in the 80's you'd clip your massive phone onto your belt and look like a tool. Phablets are the same size as these old bricks, so the same carrying considerations apply.
Hilarious and Thanks for your support!
It would be a long march around the mother ship though.
Maybe that's why they're building that. And where is the front of this thing anyway?
knew we'd all be heading there one day.
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This just in!!!
Laws of physics *still* found to hold true in this universe! Even after earth shattering record launch of iPhone 6/6+:
T = r x F
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
Laws of physics *still* found to hold true in this universe! Even after earth shattering record launch of iPhone 6/6+:
T = r x F
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque
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It might not be surprising but I am sure that many people interested in the iPhone 6 want to know how it compares.
The problem is of course that people expect a phone to be carried around in your pocket without being deformed over time. You know; like people have been using cell phones since they got down in pocketable sizes in the mid 90's.
I don't know about you, but I am not going to carry my phone in my hand when I am out and about without a jacket, shirt, man-bag, purse or other places to keep it. Most of the time when I am outside the only place to have my phone is in my pocket - if it can't survive that it fails miserably as a phone.