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Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets

I wonder what 4chan will come up with next year? "With iOS 9 you can put your phone in your pocket!"
 
Piggie said:
Nope, can't be done, you can't design out natural properties.
You pick the material best suited to the task, you don't pick the most unsuitable material then try and design it to be something else.
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willmbeckman said:
This is a joke?

If not, please proceed. It's not about designing out natural properties. Take concrete, for example. Concrete is great under compression, but terrible under tension. Solution? Put rebar in it...

This is one of an infinite number of examples where you use design to minimize problems encountered with a material.
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Also, take the Apple Watch for example. The high-end watch is 18k gold. The first thing my girlfriend said while we watched the keynote was "oh no, 18k gold? That's going to wear easily. 18k is kinda soft". Immediately afterward the keynote said that the 18k gold was treated by their metallists (they used a different word) to make it twice as hard as normal 18k gold.
 
Let me know how when you sit down and take your phone out of your pocket works for you while in NYC lol.
OH Wait you will probably tell me I am not suppose to goto NYC either (Rolls Eyes)
 
I call shenanigans on this. This is a fake story.

This "guy" didn't just drive and eat and dance with a phone in his front pocket to get it to bend like that. Extreme force is needed.

Maybe we need less drop tests and more structural integrity tests to prove this wrong.
 
fathergll said:
Obviously we are debating on theoretical basis here assuming a lot more reports come to light as time passes on. It was concerning that there have been a few reports of the bending after only owing the phone for a few days. I'd say that is a concern because logic tells me if someone can get this thing to been in a few days then there is going to be a lot of people doing so in a few months.
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It wouldn't matter what Apple does, every time Apple releases a new iPhone (and iPads etc) these threads light up with ******** about possible flaws!

Everyone becomes an expert engineer! No other company is under such scrutiny from the public of engineers!

I've been using my 6 Plus in my front pocket since Friday at work, home and out & about with out having bent it. I saw a friends of mine bend 4S/5 & 5S and never heard any complaints.
 
Plastic doesn't look too bad now. Metal bends. Especially thin aluminum.

I wonder how heavy these people who bent their phones are. I'm guessing they aren't in the normal BMI range.
 
I call **********

I've been carrying my 6+ around in my pockets since Friday - and went for a 30 mile bike ride w/ it tucked into the back of my bike *shorts* (not shirt, *shorts*) on Saturday. NO issues.

Put your phone on your leg, and then have someone sit on your lap at a wedding - I'm sure it will bend. Go figure. If you haven't thought about this in advance - You're the idiot.

It amazes me the things people will complain about, and the BS stories they spin to protect their own ineptitude.
 
Oh, c'mon

greenmeanie said:
Let me know how when you sit down and take your phone out of your pocket works for you while in NYC lol.
OH Wait you will probably tell me I am not suppose to goto NYC either (Rolls Eyes)
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I lived in NYC for five weeks, used my iPhone every day.

Was never stolen.

Was this what you were trying to insinuate?
 
In typical page count building fashion, this hits the front page before an adequate amount of time has passed.

It might be a big issue though, the build ratio on these phones is mighty thin. But then again, it might not be a big issue....too bad the site admin did not wait a few days at least...
 
barkomatic said:
Good design isn't just about making a smartphone ever thinner or more beautiful--but practical. If the device can't survive in reasonable, real world usage then there is a problem.

Now we'll hear from people that will insist that putting a smartphone in your pocket is irresponsible and reckless abuse.
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When the device is as large as the iPhone 6+ is, I agree that putting the device in your pocket is irresponsible.

It should be common sense that the device will bend when pressure is applied. Just look at how tin the damn thing is.
 
DCIFRTHS said:
When the device is as large as the iPhone 6+ is, I agree that putting the device in your pocket is irresponsible.

It should be common sense that the device will bend when pressure is applied. Just look at how tin the damn thing is.
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There are plenty of 5.5"+ phones that do not bend when pocketed.
 
Couldn't have said it better!

BoulderAdonis said:
I've been carrying my 6+ around in my pockets since Friday - and went for a 30 mile bike ride w/ it tucked into the back of my bike *shorts* (not shirt, *shorts*) on Saturday. NO issues.

Put your phone on your leg, and then have someone sit on your lap at a wedding - I'm sure it will bend. Go figure. If you haven't thought about this in advance - You're the idiot.

It amazes me the things people will complain about, and the BS stories they spin to protect their own ineptitude.
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Couldn't have said it better!

Thank you!:cool::apple:
 
BoulderAdonis said:
I've been carrying my 6+ around in my pockets since Friday - and went for a 30 mile bike ride w/ it tucked into the back of my bike *shorts* (not shirt, *shorts*) on Saturday. NO issues.

Put your phone on your leg, and then have someone sit on your lap at a wedding - I'm sure it will bend. Go figure. If you haven't thought about this in advance - You're the idiot.

It amazes me the things people will complain about, and the BS stories they spin to protect their own ineptitude.
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Great post :)

Emphasis added by me.
 
WRX-SRQ said:
No more serious than people sitting on their car hoods and expecting them not to bend or dent. Seriously, would you put a banana in your pocket and do all that and then expect it not to be deformed?

Anytime you put an object in a small space (relative to the object's size) and then move that space around or bend in an unusual (for the object) way, then there is always a chance of an accident.

This is no different than putting a credit card (which is flexible) in a wallet, then getting pissed when it's bent in a curve after a month.

I have no sympathy.
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Totally agree. It's just plain common sense that the pressure of being tightly squeezed one direction over a period of time in the pocket could damage the object. Sadly the average consumer lacks this and it's somehow Apple's fault.
 
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