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Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#101

Post by collyw »

petercooper wrote: post #52

It's not really a pocketable phone. Even in my sweatpants (trendy!) it proved so heavy it ended up dragging them down past my ass in the style many kids are rocking nowadays, except I don't rock the underwear or have the ass definition to pull off the look. Like an iPad, it's better placed in a bag. With everything else, really. Carrying stuff in your pockets is a pain in the arse and a great way to lose stuff.

I have never lost my phone, or had it stolen. I put that down in part to the fact it always stays in my pocket. Unlike many friends who put their phones / wallets on a bar table as soon as they sit down. That seems to be asking to get it stolen in certain places.

Plus carrying a bag everywhere seems somewhat impractical. (Ok, most girls I know do carry a bag everywhere, most guys I know don't).

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#102

Post by nicholassmith »

nicholassmith wrote: post #59
kalleboo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So the conclusion is: buy a slab of plastic instead, it'll hold up better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0

Plastic can also suffer similar effects, enough pressure and it'll crack or start showing the bend point but it'll return to shape more than metal.

I'm a little puzzled why this has been down voted. Plastic does suffer similar effects under pressure, it's very easy to demonstrate that as well.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#103

Post by collyw »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #93
malka wrote: post #85

48 points in 2 hours. Page 3. Why ?

number of comments is higher than the number of upvotes. HN uses this as a heuristic to bury flame wars.

really? Where do people find out about the algorithms, etiquette and other unwritten stuff about this site. Often people seem to make claims about certain aspects of HN, like you did above, but I can never find anywhere to either prove or disprove it or understand what the 'rules' are.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#104

Post by bjclark »

petercooper wrote: post #52

It's not really a pocketable phone. Even in my sweatpants (trendy!) it proved so heavy it ended up dragging them down past my ass in the style many kids are rocking nowadays, except I don't rock the underwear or have the ass definition to pull off the look. Like an iPad, it's better placed in a bag. With everything else, really. Carrying stuff in your pockets is a pain in the arse and a great way to lose stuff.

It's not a purse, it's a european carry-all.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#105

Post by bryanlarsen »

collyw wrote: post #103
bryanlarsen wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

number of comments is higher than the number of upvotes. HN uses this as a heuristic to bury flame wars.

really? Where do people find out about the algorithms, etiquette and other unwritten stuff about this site. Often people seem to make claims about certain aspects of HN, like you did above, but I can never find anywhere to either prove or disprove it or understand what the 'rules' are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang is probably your best bet

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#106

Post by epsylon »

lh7777 wrote: post #94
personZ wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting It is a brand new, $1000 consumer device. As haughty and rich as we all present ourselves, it really supremely sucks if you're the person whose brand new device got bent -- regardless of your available spending cash, it's a major bummer, moreso if you have a 2 year contract ahead of you and a dead device. That is why there is a "hysteria". Gorilla glass (not s…

I'm not worried. 14 day return policy + AppleCare = no risk that that I'm stuck with a bad/dead device. If this turns out to be a major problem that doesn't happen to me initially, I'll return the phone. If it's not that widespread but I'm among the unlucky ones who ends up with a bent phone over the next 2 years, Apple will replace it for free (or worst case charge me $79 if they think it's my fault).

The return policy doesn't apply if the item is considered damaged, and it seems that it's the excuse Apple seem to have used in that case.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#107

Post by petercooper »

collyw wrote: post #101
petercooper wrote: post #52

It's not really a pocketable phone. Even in my sweatpants (trendy!) it proved so heavy it ended up dragging them down past my ass in the style many kids are rocking nowadays, except I don't rock the underwear or have the ass definition to pull off the look. Like an iPad, it's better placed in a bag. With everything else, really. Carrying stuff in your pockets is a pain in the arse and a great way to lose stuff.

I have never lost my phone, or had it stolen. I put that down in part to the fact it always stays in my pocket. Unlike many friends who put their phones / wallets on a bar table as soon as they sit down. That seems to be asking to get it stolen in certain places. Plus carrying a bag everywhere seems somewhat impractical. (Ok, most girls I know do carry a bag everywhere, most guys I know don't).

See, I credit the same thing to not carrying stuff in an open pocket but in a bag that has a strap going round my neck and shoulder. Stuff doesn't fall out of it, I don't have to keep checking some git has pickpocketed me..

I carry a messenger bag with my phones, pens, pills, and go knows what else everywhere and don't really give a crap if anyone accidentally thinks I'm female or whatever.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#108

Post by dllthomas »

I'm skeptical about the reporting, but the quotes are choice:

"This is not an issue that Apple - or other phone companies - need to be compelled to respond to or fix. If anything this is a reflection of how people have started to use devices beyond what they were designed for,"

What kind of absurd industry apologist do you have to be to assert flatly that there's no reason people should be expecting their phones to hold up to pockets? I thought the whole reason people want thinner phones in the first place was so they fit better in their pockets.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#109

Post by dragonwriter »

Nursie wrote: post #24

That's a shame, and not something I've experienced with my Galaxy Notes of various generations. You'd think it would be tested for this sort of thing. Though who knows, maybe some folks have had problems with these devices and it's just not widely reported. Given the high profile launches and expectations of flawlessness from Apple (rightly or wrongly), it may well come under increased scrutiny.

> That's a shame, and not something I've experienced with my Galaxy Notes of various generations. You'd think it would be tested for this sort of thing.

Well, given how Apple consistently said people didn't want bigger phones because they weren't suitable for pockets, its not entirely implausible that when they finally bowed to the sales numbers that showed the first part of that was wrong, they might have gotten the wrong message and thought that the second part was still basically right -- that they believed that people wanted bigger phones even though they weren't convenient for keeping in pockets, so that pocket suitability wasn't an issue for bigger phones.

Admittedly, its inconsistent with the myth of Apple's near-prescience when it comes to consumer preferences, but that myth seem to me to be as much a product of people misreading the high-profile cases where Apple marketing has been very good at creating consumer demand for whatever it is Apple is making as anything else.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

#110

Post by dragonwriter »

linker3000 wrote: post #32
_pmf_ wrote: post #15

Ungrateful peasants. They are privileged to use the world's best phone and complain about such benign issues. > Clearly if I got the plus I'd never be able to sit at a table with it. This is bringing back the holster. This should be the preferred way for hipsters to wear their apparel.

They're trousering it wrong. Their problem. I currently have a Galaxy S4 - no problems. Previous phone was a whopping-big, first generation Note - ditto. Both live/lived in my front trouser pocket. The only device I have managed to break while in my pocket was an HP/Compaq iPaq, about 10 years ago, when I sat on a child's swing next to my son in a playground - the metal 'rope' went taught against my side and the pres…

I've had a Galaxy Note 3 damage pockets that were particularly tight, but not the other way around.
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