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Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets
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Worrying? I'll make an "iPhone 6 straightening tool" and sell it by the boat load
I couldn't agree more. This obsession for thinner and thinner is just ridiculous. There's just no need to go so thin. Thicker and stronger case with bigger battery should be the aim, just common sense. Probably reduce warranty claims into the bargain. Just shows too many yes men not speaking out to Ive on the foolishness of such thin design.
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I have a Lumia 1520 since it came out I carry it in my front jeans pocket I also have a galaxy note 3 I carry the same way I sit I bend the phone has never looked like that. so is this a defect did apple know and just wanted to push the 6,s out? see I ordered the 6 plus which is on back order so in a little worried.
I have a Lumia 1520 since it came out I carry it in my front jeans pocket I also have a galaxy note 3 I carry the same way I sit I bend the phone has never looked like that. so is this a defect did apple know and just wanted to push the 6,s out? see I ordered the 6 plus which is on back order so in a little worried.
Worrying? I'll make an "iPhone 6 straightening tool" and sell it by the boat load
Be a pretty lousy business when you can only sell to less than 1% of all iPhone users....
Was wondering when this would be posted as an article.
Except that these phones are bending back and the only way that would happen is if the screen was pointing away from the thigh.
People want larger, yet thinner and lighter phones. Something has got to give here (literally).
Has anyone here actually help a Samsung Note? I have, it's thicker and heavier device made out of plastic. It's likely to crack, not bend. And there have been reports of it.
The hipsters and their skin-tight pants don't help things either. It was pretty funny seeing some dude with a huge square bulge outline under his pocket after he sheathed his 6 Plus at the Apple store the other day.
Has anyone here actually help a Samsung Note? I have, it's thicker and heavier device made out of plastic. It's likely to crack, not bend. And there have been reports of it.
The hipsters and their skin-tight pants don't help things either. It was pretty funny seeing some dude with a huge square bulge outline under his pocket after he sheathed his 6 Plus at the Apple store the other day.
someone with common sense. Not to mention that something that size might be rather uncomfortable in the pocket when sitting so you would think that at least when driving one would remove it. Which also improves being able to use it if one is so inclined. If nothing else we all KNOW that the iPhones have ****** batteries so would you want to take it out and charge it. might be cumbersome if its in your pocket
And people don't understand why some of us find normally sized iPhones to be the more sensible option...
It happened on the 5, so I'm sure it could happen to the 6 considering it's thinner but longer.
I'm guessing stupidity isn't something they test for... perhaps they assume people have a incy wincy teeny bit of common sense, enough to know if you put any thin malleable object in a tight pocket and sit (causing pressure on the object, which you would feel), it would bend.
If I gave you a 5 inch piece of thin glass, would you store that in a tight pocket and sit down? No, so why would you expect different from this? Because it's a phone and your assumption is that's what pockets are for?!
If I go in the car and i'm wearing jeans, my phone goes in a space underneath my stereo, if I am sitting down, the phone is either loose in my hoody pocket, in my hands or on a table.
I'm about to send my iPhone 5s off for recycling and the thing is immaculate, no scratches, scuffs, marks etc (same as my 4 and 4s).
I'm so sick of people putting "gate" at the end of everything. Damn you Nixon! I blame you. THIS is the legacy you have left us.
It's not a scandal. If people are too stupid to figure out having a huge phone in their pocket is prone to being mangled, then they deserve what they get. It doesn't take a rocket scientist.
I'm concerned here as well. At first blush, this seems like a real issue. Antengate was really nothing. The predictable screams of a minute fraction of new owners saying things like they are getting bad battery life is also meaningless and will die down after a few phones have been replaced and the first iOS 8 patch comes out. But if phones are bending in pockets like this and we are only a week into a long term ownership, I think we have a problem.
A plastic, silicon or leather case is not going to help this issue since those are all much more malleable than aluminum.
