I don't apply nearly that much pressure when I sit. Maybe people with skinny jeans will have this issue?
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I don't apply nearly that much pressure when I sit. Maybe people with skinny jeans will have this issue?
Agree with others. My daily sitting wouldn't cause nearly that much pressure in a concentrated area to bend the phone like that.
Granted when I sit at my desk or table I typically take my phone out of my pocket. But I feel confident enough that my phone wouldn't have that issue with day to day use.
Granted when I sit at my desk or table I typically take my phone out of my pocket. But I feel confident enough that my phone wouldn't have that issue with day to day use.
Try bending any smartphone like this and it will bend, please people use your brain. Even the iPhone 5s which is much thicker can be bend easily with your hands, why should the iPhone 6 behave differently?
I'ts thin aluminum, not inch-thick iron. Granted, it's a concern. But if people want bigger screens without the phone becoming thick and heavy, they have to live with the consequences.
I can hear teeth gritting of millions of people waiting on 6+'s having to watch someone jack his 6+ up.
Why are some of you defending apple so much? They did a **** job designing the phone... Admit it. They're still going to make billions regardless of this but its pretty ridiculous paying such high price for a horrible QC phone.
But Android won't bend!!!
Trust me, my Samsung Focus and Galaxy Nexus were the flimsiest pieces of **** I've ever owned. They would bend. Plastic bends easier than aluminuminum.
Yeah plastic doesn't bend, it just cracks and falls apart.
If you have the 6+ in your pocket with the glass facing out and the metal facing your leg. Get into any sport car with bucket seats and get out. Your phone is bent. I traded it for the 6 after owning my 6+ for about 10 minutes. Really sucks too cause I like the screen and landscape mode on the 6+ but it just isn't practical with the vehicle I own.
**edit** glass facing your leg I mean and metal facing out.
That's a bit excessive. No one is complaining about a broken phone from a three story building. Getting upset because a phone is bending from literally just being in your pocket is a problem.
Seriously. I'm just as shocked with the number of people who lack common sense. Since my first pocketable cell phone (the Startac), I made sure nothing else goes in that pocket and pay attention to it if I had to contort my body that could put excessive pressure on the phone.
But it wasn't just in his pocket. He deliberately bent it using force with his hands. On purpose. Are these now supposed to be indestructible?
esactly - these people who complain of it bending is just apple hating. Seriously, you are suppose to get a nice man purse to hold that i6+ - i have one now and it's easy to use. Don't be a fool to put any phone in you're pocket. Makes zero sense.
apple is not stupid to design a phone without first testing it. I stand by their design because I paid full price for my i6+ and it's just ludicrous to hear people yap out false scenarios of their phones bending.
There is no faulty apple products I've ever owned - even iPhone 4with the so called antenna gate issue wasn't an issue because I use a case anyway didn't affect me at all. People should learn to shut up about these things because I can see the envy. It's quite sad
Then don't grab it by the ends and twist it with force to bend it on purpose. If you avoid that, you'll be fine.
Yes. I weigh 240 pounds. If I put an iPhone in my pocket and I sit on it, guess what's going to happen?
So now we need an advisory. Don't apply more than 25 lbs of force to your phone case. Is that it? It's people like this that made lawyers money and cars with yellow stickers on the visors....
But the bending is not simply because it's in your pocket when you're sitting down. As much as the few who have bent the 6+ are denying that they didn't bump into a table, there's still a great deal of force needed to bend the superthin 6+. Yes Apple should have attempted to strengthen the area around the volumn buttons. But the few bent phones are still user inflicted damage.
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