I guess it just depends if extended usage causes more bending, that is where we really won't know for a few months.
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Will we all have bent phones in 6 months from now?
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I guess it just depends if extended usage causes more bending, that is where we really won't know for a few months.
i have a 6+ it's rock solid. Bend gate actually kept Apple in the news cycle much longer.
Extended usage alone does not and will not bend a phone. Applying pressure externally will. Stick in a tight pocket and sitting down, will put pressure.
so more people bent their phones after the initial 9 were reported to apple. What's your point?????
any person with any slight knowledge of mechanics will laugh at that statement
Not unless they made a large assumption that I meant repeated stress in the same way and place.
What I meant was that people will start to put their phones into more situations and do more things with them. Most people with a brand new $1000 phone will take extra special care and sit babying it. Once they do more of the regular things they do with their old phones we will see if more bending occurs.
That's why its so strange that no-one has been able to demonstrate a phone being bent in pocket.
Videos of phones being bent by hand or even with hydraulics are a dime a dozen, yet not one showing someone being able to deliberately bend one by putting the phone in a pair of tight pants and leaning over or sitting down against the phone. There's no doubt many would have tried, if they had succeeded the video would have been bigger than unbox's first bending video.
I'm now into my 4th week of ownership. I've pretty much put my phone to all kind of situations that I encounter on a daily basis throughout the year.
Pretty sure other people have done the same.
Sure I haven't done bungee jumping with my phone in my pocket yet. But have never done that anyway nor intend on doing...
That the problem may prove wider spread. Time will tell over the next few months.
Will we all have bent phones in 6 months from now?
Out of how many millions?
Out of how many millions?
Doubt it. I've been bending, squaring and using my 6+ the same as I used my 5s. No issues if if was going to bend it would have already.
Nothing to do with what bends and what doesn't. Simply recording and collecting together what users are reporting. I have no interest in forced 'bend tests', etc.
Apple are now turning down all replacements and have taken the official line (even though some store staff disagree) that all bends are classed as user damage. I don't feel that is right as these people are using their phones as they would use any phone they have owned before. If it bends under 'normal phone use' perhaps it needs a warning label on it.
If we start to see a large amount of people reporting note 4s bending and samsung have the arrogance to put out a statement blaming it on the user and refusing service then I'm sure I can create a note 4 bend site.
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your phone and usage = everyone else in the world's phone and usage?
it's sites like this that is what's wrong with the Internet today. What's stoping fakes, the competition taking advantage of your site. How do you know what's sent to your site authentic.if you have no quality control then you're no better than Apple.
have to disagree there.....you accounted 11 phones on your site that were bent on purpose in stores.
Good on Apple. it's ridiculous people sitting on their phones, bending them for fun or using them while riding MTBs down hills and expecting their damaged phones to be just exchanged for new ones...
where do we go from here...replacements for phones dropped in toilets?
You wouldn't have created it we know that, your agenda doesnt include Samsung
Samung would behave exactly the same way as Apple....if a person sits on a phone you can't blame the design or manufacturing..
it's a sample, exactly the same way your site shows a sample of iPhones that have been bent....
there's no control whatsoever....he even posts his retweets of random people that "say" that they have bent their phones....no photos no proof no nothing....
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I'm a highly active electrician bending and squatting and lifting heavy things all day long twisting and turning so if it doesn't bend in my pocket then.....
I only post things with a pic or video. Loads of reports without, absolutely 100s but not posting those currently to the count.
Nothing to stop these people having bent their phone on purpose but no clue why people who lead normal, happy lives and tweet about nothing tech related would suddenly choose to take up a vendetta against apple and maliciously lie online for their friends and family to see. These are genuinely upset people who did nothing out of the ordinary with their phones.
Anyway. Don't really want to debate the site as a couple of people here threaten to report me for self promotion to try and get me banned here. I am not promoting, just responding to a question. Happy to let the problem pan out over the next few months to see if it is an issue or not, none of us know for a fact if it is or not yet.
I don't doubt they had a bad bunch.it the 5 had a bad bunch also. But to think Apple is going to risk everything on bending phones is crazy talk lol. While I beleive you have good intentions, you need QC on your site, the simple fact there are iPhone clones in the wild
That site is full of bull.....
