Who else thinks easily bendable iPhones can be explained with a flawed anodized batch

Putting a thin phone made of aluminum in your back pocket and then sitting down, with your butt being curved as well can also explain bent phones. But I too would be interested to see if there is a batch relation.

 

Perhaps because that is the thinnest part of the (actual) case frame, due to the presence of the switches?

This is not a mystery, folks...

 

Exactly ...

Not a faulty batch .... a design decision.

 

anodized user brains more likely!!

 

How many threads on this do we really need?

The best explanation is sensationalist media. One guy posts a photo online, and it's suddenly the best thing since sliced bread advert-revenue wise.

 

Maybe some people are just being more careful then others and that is resulting in a lower percentage of 6+ phones bending.

 

Call me crazy but I've never thought it was a good idea to sit down with a phone of any kind in a back pocket, let alone a thin 5.5" in phone. However, apparently some reports are that it is happening to someone with it in their front pocket of a pair of slacks which in my case are actually a bit looser in the front pocket than jeans. I've had mine in my front pocket with no issues. I've also been using a Spigen iPhone 6 Plus Case Thin Fit since Monday.

 

The hate is very strong this year. Everything will be blown way out of proportion.

 

Its proven that a phone can bend if you put it in tight pants pockets. Do you:

(1) not do that.

(2) do it anyways and then complain about it.

 

Most of the bends I've seen are near the volume buttons - a place where the holes in the chassis obviously make it weaker. It's more likely to be a design flaw instead of a manufacturing flaw.

 

It's a design decision which makes it more prone to permanent damage than many other phones when you apply strong enough pressure - a decision which was probably deemed an acceptable trade-off for the lightweight and premium looking feel of a thin an large phone made of aluminium.

It doesn't mean the phone will bend for a majority of customers after a week. It is just more likely to permanently bend if you pressure it.

 

it only bends with pressure, so the wearer must definitely feel it in their tight pockets when they sit down. they choose to ignore it.

 

At least in the rrod situation microsoft extended the warranty which was nice. I for some strange reason had and still have an original xbox 360 which still did not get rrod very strange.

I still have my old iphone 4 and if i do a death grip with my left hand the signal still cuts out, but that has never affected me beacuse im right handed and even if I was left handed, I dont hold my phone like that.

This time it is different because the phone is literally deforming

No, phones bending is not hate, even as an Apple customer this concerns me. No other phone bends like this iphone plus.

 

+1

 

Do I think metal is more malleable because of anodized coating? No.

 

And there will likely be more voices, but you somehow refuse to get the idea that this being the type of potential issue it is will require a lot more settle time to get any real metrics and instead, make post after post, starting thread after thread...

Not everyone's lives revolve around the internet and devices...thankfully.

 

No other phones are made of this material. They're made of cheap plastic and 3 times the thickness.

And by the way phones are not bending....2 people bent their phones....with what motif we don't know

 

if Kim Kardashian got the iphone 6+ and put dat in her back pocket, it would come out as a LG Flex.

 

I'll admit physics was never my strong suit .... but i remember the Mythbusters 'Antacid Jailbreak' episode and it made me think that a much smaller amount of curving pressure but evenly spread over the whole device (like in a back pocket) would bend the phone easier than trying to bend it using a couple of small pressure points .... like your thumbs...