iPhone 6 bends in your pocket

d123

JoeJester wrote: »

Those two seem to be the general consensus. No idea where you're supposed to keep your phone. Are you meant to buy a little bag just for it? And yes. People often waste £600+ on a phone justs to break it and post on a forum about it.

You do realise there are a lot of people who do actually spend £££'s on new phones and then try and break them in the weirdest way they can think of?

They make their money back by getting massive viewing numbers of their video of the destruction.

davethorp

It will get wrecked if you put it in a blender too

http://youtu.be/lBUJcD6Ws6s

Whatever shall we do? I know let's not put it in a blender. And let's not apply a significant amount of force to it to try and bend it and then wonder why it got bent! It's like antennagate all over again, an issue that would only affect people if you held your phone in a way which no one ever would!

Out of 10 million sold how many have reported bending issues? I bet it's less than 10 million. Actually it's probably less than 10

joeluken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROcoJeVfSI

barryboris

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

You reckon you could bend a Samsung screen like that without it breaking?

Yes actually.

There's been a video comparison of a Samsung galaxy note and an iphone 6 plus being bent using the same force.

Galaxy note wins, hands down.

sillygoose

Surely its down to the Apple obsession with being the thinnest, they have pushed the chassis too thin. The thing is does being that 1 or 2mm thinner really matter, is it neccesary if it compromises the robustness?

I have not picked up many phones last few years and thought wow! too chunky at 9mm needs to be thinner and I very much doubt if you can feel the difference in your back pocket - if you can your trousers are way too tight and you have other fragile 'equipment' that is probably getting deformed

It does look like people trying to bend them with their thumbs need a lot of force but is it a lot compared to parking your body weight on it in a back pocket? unless your a descendant of Bruce Lee you can't lift your body weight with the strength of two thumbs so a considerable difference.

I do think they may have just miscalculated form over function slightly on this one, the bigger phones provide more leverage so the chassis stress level go up sharply.

chanz4

imagine all the wanna be blondes who throw them in their handbags. This article just backs up apples poor quality over priced product

k3lvc

Best retort so far

https://twitter.com/kitkat/status/514817515177123841

redux

davethorp wrote: »

It will get wrecked if you put it in a blender too

http://youtu.be/lBUJcD6Ws6s

Whatever shall we do? I know let's not put it in a blender. And let's not apply a significant amount of force to it to try and bend it and then wonder why it got bent! It's like antennagate all over again, an issue that would only affect people if you held your phone in a way which no one ever would!

Out of 10 million sold how many have reported bending issues? I bet it's less than 10 million. Actually it's probably less than 10

The deliberate bending trials were only made because some people had already accidentally bent the phone through what they thought was normal behaviour, namely putting it in a pocket. I've seen friends using older iPhones take them out of their pocket.

The weak signal issues are not restricted to iPhones, and happen because nowadays many phones have the aerial at the bottom rather than the top, to move it slightly further from the head, but this means a risk the hand may surround it and damp its performance. Apple did on top of that have a metal edge strip that may have been part of the aerial.

If the metal case is about 5 mm thick, and the hole for the volume control buttons roughly half that, it follows that the frame would be naturally weaker at that point, unless there is reinforcement by having it deeper inside just in that area. Or maybe as well or instead it's a slightly different alloy that's softer than they foresaw. I'd be slightly interested in seeing one of these damaged phones taken apart.

I don't understand such obsession in some marketing with the thinness of a phone, and Apple has added to the emphasis by comparing it to their previous model with slightly trick lighting, from the sides of the old one and on to the rounded edge of the new one, so that the black barely shows against the background. http://qz.com/262355/apple-used-trick-photography-to-make-the-new-iphones-look-thinner/

d123

Nodding_Donkey wrote: »

You reckon you could bend a Samsung screen like that without it breaking?

Galaxy S4 failed

http://youtu.be/SwdZzvCFhLo

davethorp

9 people affected. That's a lot. Out of 10,000,000 sold

http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/25/apple-responds-to-iphone-6-bendgate-controversy-says-only-9-customers-have-complained/