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Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets
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Don't know why Apple is obsessed with making everything paper thin. You got all those 2011 MacBook Pros dying because there's not enough room inside for air to circulate to cool the GPU. Now you can't even put the iPhone 6+ in your pocket without it bending.
Your type crack me up!! 10MILLION Units sold and a very very few have bent their phone through their own irresponsible actions and its a design flaw...... Ok.
Following-up with my previous post.... is there anyone out there that can actually post a picture of their bent iPhone 6+... or even show a video. So far, I've seen the same 4 images and one idiot on video, bending his iPhone. Also, watch the video.... it says 2:26 with the minor bend. Then when he shows the major bend, the clock shows 1:58... he's edited the video in a really bad way. Shouldn't the major bend be a later time in the day, not earlier????
Which makes a big fail of their thinness. No use spouting thin as great if you gotta bulk it up and uglify it in a case.
Why not just make a thicker, strong phone? It'd have a bigger battery too.
Uhh, because MOST people still put it in cases anyway. I rather have it be thin so the case doesn't make it too bulky like it happens when you put case on note 3 or galaxy s5.
Don't know whether this has been addressed before, but the bending depends on some factors
1. Thickness or better distance to bending neutral fiber (design dependent)
2. Young modulus (the higher the better, aluminum has about 70 GPa, independent which alley you use; steel has 210 GPa)
3. Design, that defines the cross section in general
4. Length of the boundaries
So when it comes to stiffness issues, which seems to be the case here...
If you replace steel by aluminum and leave everything else the same it was (thickness, cross section) your stiffness has reduced to 1/3; the weight as well, but if the whole structure is too weak now, you increase thickness and in the end it weighs more than a steel construction.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffness#Use_in_engineering
What really bothers me: I'm working as an engineer in the suspension and chassis development for a big German supplier; we have to design parts for every occasion, as life depends on that. We cannot say "uh, you're supposed to evade potholes, as cars are for driving on roads, sorry your car is wrecked... User mistake"
These are conditions we have to consider and add some extra safety on top!
No, Apple hasn't done their job right when designing the cases or made wrong assumptions but honestly, what is the purpose of a phone to be carried anywhere else but in a pocket???
1. Thickness or better distance to bending neutral fiber (design dependent)
2. Young modulus (the higher the better, aluminum has about 70 GPa, independent which alley you use; steel has 210 GPa)
3. Design, that defines the cross section in general
4. Length of the boundaries
So when it comes to stiffness issues, which seems to be the case here...
If you replace steel by aluminum and leave everything else the same it was (thickness, cross section) your stiffness has reduced to 1/3; the weight as well, but if the whole structure is too weak now, you increase thickness and in the end it weighs more than a steel construction.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffness#Use_in_engineering
What really bothers me: I'm working as an engineer in the suspension and chassis development for a big German supplier; we have to design parts for every occasion, as life depends on that. We cannot say "uh, you're supposed to evade potholes, as cars are for driving on roads, sorry your car is wrecked... User mistake"
These are conditions we have to consider and add some extra safety on top!
No, Apple hasn't done their job right when designing the cases or made wrong assumptions but honestly, what is the purpose of a phone to be carried anywhere else but in a pocket???
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What's the usability of a phone, when I have to take a separate backpack with me in summer while walking along the street???
Where is the mobility. It's still a phone not an ipad
on this (first to appear?) picture why is the infamous protruding camera ring below the antenna lines?
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funky! Fake?
Yeah, because that 1mm thicker Galaxy S5 or 1.2mm thicker Note 3 really makes them a lot more bulky....
S5=8.1mm
Note 3=8.3mm
iPhone 6 plus: 7.1mm
Personally I dislike the race for thinner and thinner phones - and not only because of worse structural integrity the thinner the device gets.
I would much rather add 2-3mm in thickness if I got way better battery capacity, and that applies to every phone I have had - no matter what manufacturer - the last 10 years.
Yes such a total failure that only 10 million sold in 3 days. Such a failure because there are like 5 reports of bend iPhones. Same with the bend 5, same as scuff gate, same as antenna gate, same every damn time.
The failure is the people commenting on this forum thinking they know and could do better than the people that make the devices they use. They also love to state their basic business and economics knowledge they have learned at uni in regards to the 2nd most valuable company in the world..
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have you seen how it fits in those front pockets? It doesn't. Not really. You shouldn't need apple to tell you that. The back pocket. You shouldn't need apple to tell you not to sit on it.
The forums are full of posts from people like me saying its a nice phone but where will I put it. And that was before it was released. Why are others trying to cram it into a small space?
Because they are idiots?
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Do you put your trousers in a vice and tighten it, or hammer them, to remove creases? Do you iron your car when you get a dent in it?
Image FAIL... so so bad.
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After reading all the posts about the bending of the Iphone 6 Plus I happened to look at my Ipad Air and sure enough it is bent. I for sure do not put my Ipad in my Pocket
And you say that as a sort of argument in favor of Apple?
I had my own Air bent long time ago by doing absolutely nothing wrong. Obviously people here went mad on how full of BS my story was the typical sheep reaction. However, by no means I think holding your iPad in a normal way is a valid reason to have it bent.
Please, this is not YouTube.
Lets see pics of your iPad Air. I don't believe anything now until I see new pics (sorry). I've only seen 4 pics and one video of bent iPhone 6+.... and, they are the sames images posted on every site (one is definitely fake as the camera lens is in the wrong place)
Are you trolling here? I have a tight pants and I walk with it and there's no bend. Whoever is causing these bends are doing something stupid with it.
Here's a rule, if the phone is causing pain against your body, you probably shouldn't keep it in that position. There's no way to bend it unless you're forcing it hard against your body.
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Actually it makes big difference. I have a Note 3 and I can tell that it feels just bulkier/not as nice compared to iPhone 6. You're talking shaving something like 20% off the thickness.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1701165/
About the photo that you claim is fake... It's not. It was explained a few pages back.
I Call Bogus
All of the pictures, and the so-called video testing, are bending the device OUTWARDS against the screen. I have NEVER seen anyone put an iPhone in a front or back pocket with the screen facing outward - that would be a recipe for sure fire disaster for the screen by hitting your leg against a desk, table, or other object.
Same goes for the bent iPad - just coincidence - I think not...
All of the pictures, and the so-called video testing, are bending the device OUTWARDS against the screen. I have NEVER seen anyone put an iPhone in a front or back pocket with the screen facing outward - that would be a recipe for sure fire disaster for the screen by hitting your leg against a desk, table, or other object.
Same goes for the bent iPad - just coincidence - I think not...
correct. the issue is phones bending in front pants pockets.
when you sit, you bend in half at the waist, just like some of the iphones are apparently bending longitudinally. it's exactly where you'd expect a long phone in a jeans pocket to bend.