Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets

[crjackson2134]

Anyways, the expectation isn't that Apple build a phone that can survive tight jeans, but a $900 phone should be reasonably durable. A thin flat chassis of thin aluminum may look pretty, but it's not the best choice for durability. All Apple had to do was curve the back to make the entire phone stiffer. A curved back is easier to hold as well, and provides more room for battery - a win/win design choice.

I agree, and curved would be less likely to slip from the hand. They've done before, they should do it again.

I may hold onto my 4S a little longer. It performs just fine with iOS 8 and doesn't have a problem in my pocket. Hopefully they'll address this with the 6S. I always go for S models anyway.

 

[i4m]

This is horrible, I would never put that much pressure leaning against my phone. Come on MAN!

It is not leaning against it, it is putting in in your back pocket as you should be able to do with a portable phone.

 

[aaronvan]

Which turns out to be one of the easiest ways to have a phone hit the floor.

Not if you bend at the knees.

 

[Itzamna]

Ok let me rephrase it.

If the new iPhone's are proven to be 25% "less durable" than their predecessor's, would that be an issue? Assuming we could theoretically quantify less durable

It's a simple question. People have been buying iPhones for years now. They used their iPhone in a certain manner for years and let's say this model had issues where as the other one's didn't. I would call that a major design flaw.

That really depends on the trade off…


Nokia 3300 is pretty durable and almost impossible to destroy in normal day usage… Would you prefer to use it instead of your iPhone or Galaxy?

Lets say that yes, each new iPhone loses 25% of it's durability.. If it's with nothing in return then it's a design flaw, if you get something in return, it's up to the customers to see if its acceptable or not.

Again, let's say that this iPhone is 25% less durable than the 5s… If you think that a thinner and bigger screen is a good trade off, it's up to you, the customer… Apple can only try to mitigate that durability drop.


But that has nothing to do with the fact that people are subjecting a phone to high pressure forces inside a tight pants pocket when sitting… Or to severe abuse when they throw a phone into a bag filled with coins, keys, heavy stuff, etc etc… When you do that, stuff will break, stuff will bend, stuff will scratch.

 

[i4m]

Uh common sense?

No, you and Steve Jobs don't get to school us on common sense, whether it be on holding it wrong or pocketing it wrong.

 

[TWSS37]

The HTC M8 has it's own set of issues, so dont go down that road.

Sure, no phone is flawless, but none are related to bending, which is the topic of this thread.

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Your HTC One M8 is 32% thicker than an iPhone six plus.

I understand that, however if by being 32% thinner the device becomes vulnerable to bending and you still want to use aluminum, why was it designed to be that thin? This is a design issue if true.

 

[gijoeinla]

i had my note 3 in my back pocket several times i sat on it in my car no big deal

Really? And what do you have now?

 

[itsmeok]

show?

Reminds me of an old game show:

[q] Things that are bigger than 5 inches in your pants and bend?
[a] Oh, a ****
[q] Nope
[a] Oh, paper money
[q] Nope
[a] phone?
[q] K-ching!!

 

[TWSS37]

Cool story man. Maybe one day when you actually buy an Apple device someone will have an inkling of belief towards your extreme bias.

An extreme bias towards what exactly? Using a relevant example of a device made of like material in a use case like the one mentioned in the article is biased how?

 

[i4m]

Aluminum bends, don't sit on thin aluminum.

This is NOT about a thin foil of aluminum. This is about a phone supposed to be at least durable enough to cope with the normal day to day life inside a pocket.

 

[Zxxv]

Reminds me of an old game show:

[q] Things that are bigger than 5 inches in your pocket and bend?
[a] Oh, a ****
[q] Nope
[a] Oh, paper money
[q] Nope
[a] phone?
[q] K-ching!!

[a] Your hand (because you'd put it in there instinctively to see what's in there. It's a trick question ha

 

[i4m]

Instead of the front pocket of his suit pants, he should've put it in an inside suit coat pocket (if he had one).

Not to mention that he's not doing his testicles any favors by keeping a cell phone next to them.

A hard choice to make. Leave phone by testicles or bring it closer to the heart/head? I think putting it in the back pocket is a wonderful compromise, the buttocks should be able to take all the abuse.

 

[Antares]

A Snickers bar melts if you put it in your pocket! I mean really people?? Herp Derp.

Clearly, that's a flaw in the design of Snickers bars. Mars should have anticipated this. I bet that wouldn't happen to a Nestle candy bar.

 

[i4m]

"Designed by Apple", "made in China" .#######

forgot "Bent in the USA"

 

[ikir]

So many idiots...

 

[Adidas Addict]

£619-£789 for a cheap bendy aluminium body? Not good enough is it, to command that kind of price it really should display a more premium and strong casing. High quality plastics are more resilient and lighter than cheapo aluminium.

 

[cmanbrazil]

So its safe to say if i get a hard case this won' be a problem right?

 

[lowepg]

This is going to get really bad with the iphone8....

 

[Rocko1]

I keep my 4s in my back pocket, it's not broken yet. Maybe Apple should use a harder metal for the 6s.

The 4 and 4s had a robust stainless steel frame. The 5-6Plus use thin 6061 non-tempered aluminum. Light, but bends very easily.

 

[Mac Eagle]

I'm wondering if there could have possibly been another hard object in the same pocket that the phone could have bent around. I just can't see the phone bending against a thigh, but if a hard object got between the phone and the thigh then I can possibly see that happening.

 

[PassiveSmoking]

 

[ikir]

This is NOT about a thin foil of aluminum. This is about a phone supposed to be at least durable enough to cope with the normal day to day life inside a pocket.

If you are over 90Kg and you have tight pocket, probably all phones will bend. I've seen many iPhone 5 bended. The real issue is 99% users who will damage any phones will blame the phone not themself.

 

[RestUnknown]

Goodbye Apple

 

[anova]

The 4 and 4s had a robust stainless steel frame. The 5-6Plus use thin 6061 non-tempered aluminum. Light, but bends very easily.

am I the only one that thinks a 4.7 inch iPhone with new specs/components, but same body style and materials as the iphone4, would be the ultimate phone?

 

[Zxxv]

Lucky enough to be privy to inside apple news and with the bending news I'm allowed to leak this.

Next iphone sports all new "bent" design. It is Johnny Ives best work yet. iphone is bent by design as we listened to all our customers and found the one thing they really craved was an iPhone that didn't smash when dropped and that was safe to carry in their pocket. So our team thought long and hard. The end result is the iphone ( an all new design than when dropped acts like a boomerang and flys right back up and smacks the user in the face. Reminding them not to be a collosal ****ing idiot. It's our best design yet.