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Next Apple product..................

iPants
to lug around all those iDevices without a risk of them bending doing normal daily activities!
 
So they knew this would happen and this is why Apple acquired a fashion mongrel, next up, iPants. Ass pockets were so last century.
 
Reading the comments in this thread makes me wonder just how gullible people have become. : (
 
Will there ever be iPhone released without any issue? I think the last iPhone with no issue was iPhone 3GS (..or atleast i don't recall any issue with it)

Does anyone have any idea of Samsung note (any version) bending ?

No, their plastic phone doesn't bend.
 
It might be of interest to some to look into cases manufactured by Really Right Stuff, out of San Luis Obispo, CA. They make high-end tripods and got into the iphone case making business. Their cases are made from machined aluminum. Pricey, but then again it may be worth it.

I'm not sure what their plans are for iphone 6/+ cases, but I'm thinking such a case on the new iphones might add a little bit of strength.

http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/s.nl/sc.26/category.557/it.C/.f

-Dan
 
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?

Screen from the 6, design from the 4 with the thinness of the 5. Now that would be something.
 
Time for Apple to finally use Liquid Metal! (It's flexible, and not malleable.)

Either that or finally start making the iPhone thicker again, making it 41% thicker would generally increase its resistance to bending by 2. (Assuming that bendability is roughly inversely proportional to the square of it's thickness and that the iPhone behaves as if it is actually solid all the way through.)

Making the iPhone a little thicker could easily double or triple the battery charge too!
 
it must have had something putting pressure. Like keys or something, because I'm sorry a phone would not just bend that easily, unless you forced it into the pocket.
 
People treating their £700+ phones like it's a throwaway device. No doubt all this bending will be "Apple's fault" again...

Look after your gadgets, people!

Phone isn't even strong enough endure in a pocket? I guess it belongs in a museum then...
 
If that person's story is true, that the iPhone damage was caused as described, that's retarded. I plan to buy the Plus for the better camera and pixel density, but after reading this I'm not so sure. Retarded design flaw.

It not a design flaw, it's simply follows the laws of physics.
 
That's a HUGE pocket!

This issue has been around since before smart phones. Prior to the touchscreen smart phones, I had the Samsung Trace, which actually broke in half for this reason. (I'm 5'2" and 110 at the time) After that I got it replaced and basically alternated the direction it faced in my pocket, daily.

I was a genius at an apple store for a few years, and I did have many people come in to get backplates replaced because they would "spontaneously" shatter. This was the result of the same issue. You could tell by the pressure point being almost directly smack in the middle of the back plate.

Now, the thing I find ironic is that this article speaks specifically to the 6+. My thought is, any person whose pants pocket is big enough to house that device, probably shouldn't be sitting on any piece of technology, much less one so thin. (Unless it is a very unfashionable fanboy who still plays D&D and wears JNCOs)
 
Really? My HTC One M8 is primarily aluminum and I keep it in my pockets all the time without any bending, and I have had it since release day 6 months ago.

And the same will hold true for virtually all iPhone 6 pluses as well. Honestly, if you're putting enough force on a phone to bend it, it should be very uncomfortable. That should be your first clue. I'm going to have to blame the owners for these incidents unless it becomes really common.

PS: people have bent the HTC One m8.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one-m8/381873-bent-m8.html
 
I'd be willing to wager that these phones were "sat on", with the phones being in people's back pocket wedged between a human posterior and a hard chair. My best guess for an average adult human; the minimum weight is 100+ pounds.

Would you want to put 100-300 lbs of pressure on your $700-$1000 toy?

Use your brains people.


Well maybe most people were duped into thinking they were buying a serious phone, not a "TOY".
 
Thinner phone made of aluminum which is a malleable metal. Can't say that I'm surprised. Disappointed yes, surprised no :(

It's covered by the included one year warranty... Back it up, take it to an apple store, and they'll give you a new one!
 
I get it, don't sit on your phone in your pocket. Sure, aluminum is a more malleable metal. HOWEVER, who could have honestly predicted that their iPhone would actually bend to a noticeable degree from simply sitting on it in your pocket? I certainly never would have thought that would be enough pressure to permanently alter the shape of the phone.

Everyone with the high and mighty "Well OBVIOUSLY you shouldn't put in your pocket" posts needs to get over themselves.
 
My Nokia 1520 is a bit thicker and less prone flex and I suspect it has an issue with a conner of the screen sometime whacking out when you try to touch it, a By product of getting slightly bent in pocket, a hazard with these larger phones, but the iphone definitely feels a bit more malleable than the 1520
 
Just another reason I'm not upgrading. Nothing about this phone is appealing. More fragile screen, more prone to bending, all so I can have the inconvenience of some unnecessarily large screen that sticks out of my pocket and has an ugly aesthetic/design that can't compare to the Leica-esque quality of the previous 2 generations?

RIP Steve.
 
If you bend your iPhone 5 or 6 just back it up and then take it to an Apple store and it's covered under the included one year warranty. They will give you a new one for free! if you have apple care plus you have two years... stop whining!!!
 
iPhones are tools to be used, not works of art to be placed on display.

>Agreed!

If people are going to place large, thin, fragile electronics in tight pockets, or places where the device encounters movement / contact stress, they shouldn't be surprised that said device starts to show signs of stress by bending etc.

>I would phrase this a different way: Because phones are not to be placed on display, but place in tights pockets, or places where the device encounters movement / contact stress, they need to be made stronger!!
 
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