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Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets
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I still feel like there is more to these stories than what we are being told. Here is a report in the forums that one of the phones was in a baggy set of jeans as well as a case and the phone bent and the screen seperated all from a simple soft bump into someone.
Something just doesn't sound right, especially where there are tons of stress tests on YouTube like the one below. Yes the back plate bent here but it took a liquid nitrogen bath and a sledgehammer and even then it fared better than expected. Are the phones being bent? Clearly. However, I think there is more to it that what people are posting. Maybe they don't recall what caused that to happen exactly but I bet there is more to it that is stressing the phone.
http://youtu.be/0UjmqErytJc
Something just doesn't sound right, especially where there are tons of stress tests on YouTube like the one below. Yes the back plate bent here but it took a liquid nitrogen bath and a sledgehammer and even then it fared better than expected. Are the phones being bent? Clearly. However, I think there is more to it that what people are posting. Maybe they don't recall what caused that to happen exactly but I bet there is more to it that is stressing the phone.
http://youtu.be/0UjmqErytJc
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And In Other Shocking News
A Snickers bar melts if you put it in your pocket! I mean really people?? Herp Derp.
A Snickers bar melts if you put it in your pocket! I mean really people?? Herp Derp.
I sit on my iPhone 5S all the time!! Ok, ok, I know that didn't come out sounding well.Aside from that, its kinda surprising to think that Apple didn't anticipate this and build a phone that could handle it. If my iPhone 6 Plus bends after sitting on it, I'll be pretty disappointed.
You store your phone in your back pocket? That's a disaster waiting to happen no matter which phone you're using (can get stolen, bent, broken screen, etc..).
Your HTC is over 30% thicker than the iPhone 6 Plus which will make a big difference to it's strength and resistance to bending.
No issues so far...3G/4S/5S ... guess I now need a murse to carry my soon to arrive 6 Plus.
I assume you are one of the reasonable people who have their phone in their pocket, but don't sit on it.
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.
Front pocket of a suit and it was tight enough to bend it? [tight] Jeans, or back pocket I could see, but the specific incident cited I suspect was from somebody sitting on his lap or some other “crazy” wedding event.
Anyway, it’s definitely a concern.
I had my 5 at Universal a few weeks ago and I was thinking about the 6+, and just kind of noted how easily my 5 fit in my pocket, and even when it was oriented horizontal, it was comfortable and there was little-to-no stress on the phone (it was even easy to position it so it wasn’t making contact with the various bars/harnesses of different rides).
Speaking of bananas (and rides ... see above), one time at Busch Gardens I had a banana in my pocket (like actual fruit people, behave), we were on an overdone health kick, don’t ask ... of some cargo shorts and we hopped on several rides, and when it was time for a banana break, hahaha, the thing had like liquefied in my pocket. It was the craziest thing, my pocket was full of banana juice - I wound up going to a bathroom, taking off my shorts, rinsing them out and drying them with a hand dryer I got some great looks from people standing there in my undies ...
Anyway, it’s definitely a concern.
I had my 5 at Universal a few weeks ago and I was thinking about the 6+, and just kind of noted how easily my 5 fit in my pocket, and even when it was oriented horizontal, it was comfortable and there was little-to-no stress on the phone (it was even easy to position it so it wasn’t making contact with the various bars/harnesses of different rides).
Speaking of bananas (and rides ... see above), one time at Busch Gardens I had a banana in my pocket (like actual fruit people, behave), we were on an overdone health kick, don’t ask ... of some cargo shorts and we hopped on several rides, and when it was time for a banana break, hahaha, the thing had like liquefied in my pocket. It was the craziest thing, my pocket was full of banana juice - I wound up going to a bathroom, taking off my shorts, rinsing them out and drying them with a hand dryer
I got some great looks from people standing there in my undies ...
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Well some people are just dumb asses and shouldn't be trusted with $750-$950 phones. I've had every phone in the note series and now the iphone plus not once have I had this sort of problem(I don't wear fat people pants either i'm 6' and weigh 180lb).