The Bendguy Cheated You Again.

[zakarhino]

See this pen:
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I can bend it possibly even break it if I continue exerting force on it.

Can I blame BIC for it....possibly

Can BIC take the blame for my bending and breaking of this pen. Doubt it! The pen was never designed and intended for bending with my hands.....

True. If I try hard enough I can bend a pen. If I try hard enough I can bend a steel nail. If I try hard enough I can bend titanium.







But when I pull a BIC pen, a sheet of titanium or steel nail out of my pocket, I don't expect it to be bent, do I . I have not abused my 6+, I keep it in my shorts/cargos or shirt pocket and somehow the glass is already warped near the volume buttons and I have a 0.5-1degree bend already. Very undetectable, but it's there.

Lewis bending a phone is for exaggerated example. Regardless of if he's doing something wrong, or cheating, or whatever, that doesn't change the fact that people's phones are bending under normal circumstances.

Newsflash: People shouldn't care about how/why UnboxTherapy/Lewis bending something under force matters -- it does not change the fact that it *can* be bent under normal circumstances and that it *has* in fact bent for people.

 

[saab9573]

True. If I try hard enough I can bend a pen. If I try hard enough I can bend a steel nail. If I try hard enough I can bend titanium.















But when I pull a BIC pen, a sheet of titanium or steel nail out of my pocket, I don't expect it to be bent, do I . I have not abused my 6+, I keep it in my shorts/cargos or shirt pocket and somehow the glass is already warped near the volume buttons and I have a 0.5-1degree bend already. Very undetectable, but it's there.



Lewis bending a phone is for exaggerated example. Regardless of if he's doing something wrong, or cheating, or whatever, that doesn't change the fact that people's phones are bending under normal circumstances.



Newsflash: People shouldn't care about how/why UnboxTherapy/Lewis bending something under force matters -- it does not change the fact that it *can* be bent under normal circumstances and that it *has* in fact bent for people.

LOL

a 1 degree bend?

WTF!!!???

 

[jclardy]

I did notice this when I watched the video, sticking your arms all the way out isn't applying more force, it is less, even though he tries to make it seem like more in the video.

Either way I don't really care, the only way this matter is if it can actually bend in your pocket...which I am still doubtful of. There is no situation in normal life where I will be compressing my phone like in the "bend" videos.

 

[zakarhino]

Mine is in my front pocket right now as I type this on my iPad.

No bend

Look at a lightbulb or some object in the reflection of your 6+'s display (or 6). Slowly tilt the device so that the object seems to move down the left side of the display and try to see if at any point (especially near the volume buttons) that object warps a bit. Mine does and that's only after one week of use. No true bend as of now that I'm too concerned with but if that's only after 1 week I don't want to know about what it's going to look like after 1 year of use. Heck, by the 6S I'll practically have an LG G Flex haha (which, by the way, the 'curve' on that does not add to the experience in any way.... hate that phone)

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I did notice this when I watched the video, sticking your arms all the way out isn't applying more force, it is less, even though he tries to make it seem like more in the video.

Either way I don't really care, the only way this matter is if it can actually bend in your pocket...which I am still doubtful of. There is no situation in normal life where I will be compressing my phone like in the "bend" videos.

Yeah ok, I'll admit too that the new Moto X's release date and timing with this video seems suspicious....

The link? Lewis mentions the Moto X twice -- in both videos...

Meh, I'm not going to read into it, I just want to know that my phone won't continue to bend.

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LOL

a 1 degree bend?

WTF!!!???

What's so funny about that? It's minute but I've given it a test and there's definitely a very small bending. Not as sharp as others' bends but more of a curve really.

If you think that's funny, go buy an expensive device that you adore then feel what it's like when you realize you're a possible victim of bad industrial design Kinda sad because I really can't be bothered to try go through T-Mobile just to try get a replacement if this gets worse.

 

[AdonisSMU]

LOL

a 1 degree bend?

WTF!!!???

I wonder if any of these phones were bent out of the box...

 

[Surf Monkey]

I wonder if any of these phones were bent out of the box...

We know of at least one report here on the board from before the Unbox video that was a factory defect. "Bent" out of the box. Seems to me that many of these slightly deformed examples may be the same thing. Deformed out of the box but un-noticed until now.

 

[Toltepeceno]

Mechanic here. Tighten bolts and nuts to 70+ lb all the time.

To put 70b into context that is the same amount of force that a lug nut exerts on your wheel.

A lug nut with a breaker bar or torque wrench is a bad comparison though. Take a look at hand strengths:

http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/handgrip.htm#

Even very males with very poor hand strength show to be under 88 lbs, poor is 88-95. I had to do therapy due to an injury and do these tests and had way over the 70 pound mark it shows for bending.

Putting torque on a lug nut is not the same thing, very different. In reality 70 pounds with your hand is not that much, both hands and arms even less. Legs, for most people, even have more strength.

I don't think it's a big problem, but comparing it with lug nut torque is not a good comparison.

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I used to work as a mechanic, pretty much all of the stripped one I saw were idiots using impact guns. I never saw it happen with a torque wrench.

lots of people have stripped studs.




actually it is mostly to do with the lug nuts. Most alloy rims use alloy lug nuts which end up stripped much sooner then steel wheels which traditionally used steel lug nuts.