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Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by pritambaral »

johnpowell wrote: post #31

This guy seems to exert a lot of force for it to bend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM#t=34 I can't understand how having the same happen in your pants wouldn't indicate that maybe you should take your phone out or adjust your trousers. And I will beat you to the you are wearing your pants wrong joke.

Notice the bending in OP's video isn't the same level of bending in the pocket-bend claims. The latter is much more subtle, yet still noticeable. I'd say any kind of permanent bend from just being in pants' pockets is a design flaw.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by morganvachon »

dimillian wrote: post #16

So if you feel a pressure in you pocket, DO NOT REMOVE the phone.... Are people just plain dumbs or what?

A coworker just got that new waterproof Android phone from Kyocera. For some reason he thought waterproof == indestructible, so he never got a case for it. Two weeks later it ended up with a cracked screen. He cracked it when he had it in his pocket and leaned against a table.

Yes, these devices are made to withstand rough conditions, and each generation seems tougher than the last. But cases exist for a reason; no phone is indestructible.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by antimagic »

loxs wrote: post #35
antimagic wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a counter-point, independant testing indicates that the iPhone 6(+) is the toughest iPhone yet: http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/09/22/iphone-6... I think we're at least going to have to put an asterix on the tale of the guy that bent his phone in his pants pockets. Until it's been reliably reproduced, I for one won't be jumping to any conclusions.

True, but I, on the other hand won't be jump-buying the device either :)

Fair enough. Of course there's a bunch of us for whom the 6+ is simply too large to be putting into front pockets whether we want to or not. For us this is a total non-issue :)

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by danford »

antimagic wrote: post #33
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.

As a counter-point, independant testing indicates that the iPhone 6(+) is the toughest iPhone yet: http://blogs.wsj.com/personal-technology/2014/09/22/iphone-6... I think we're at least going to have to put an asterix on the tale of the guy that bent his phone in his pants pockets. Until it's been reliably reproduced, I for one won't be jumping to any conclusions.

>SquareTrade found that the iPhone 6 holds up impressively well in drops, spills and slips

But surprisingly they didn't test bends.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by danford »

georgespencer wrote: post #17
dalai wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, but I would assume that most people have a reasonable expectation that their phones will not get damaged in typical usage scenarios. And yes, I do think that putting your phone in your front pocket is typical. In my view that means that there is a design flaw.

> I do think that putting your phone in your front pocket is typical Correct. And for, hm, probably 99.98% of the 10m iPhone 6 users created over the weekend, that isn't an issue. You're drawing a misleading comparison between putting your iPhone in your pocket and it becoming bent out of shape. What happens when you put your phone in your pocket is crucial: exerting sufficient pressure to bend (as opposed to flex) t…

>This is a problem with any object of similar proportions and rigidity when sufficient pressure is applied.

Well they need to change their design then. It's a design flaw.

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by duncanawoods »

nicholassmith wrote: post #2

The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting. It's a slab of thin aluminium that has a large surface area, a consistent amount of pressure is going to cause bending. I'm personally surprised that the glass didn't crack on some of the pictures.

The glass breaks when you bend it back apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0

Re: iPhone 6 Plus bending in pockets

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Post by MCRed »

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.

The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces.

This is like antenna gate-- typical Apple bashing pretending like there's some sort of defect when there isn't. And like antenna gate, if you analyze other phones on the market, you'll find they too don't have super human strength.

In fact, the fact that they bent, instead of breaking, is pretty strong evidence that they are the best built phones on the market.

Subject any competing phone to 300pounds of force differential between the center and the edges (or whatever they used to get these to bend) and I'm pretty certain they will be destroyed.

One of the reasons I buy Apple products is that they are built to be durable in a way that very few of their competitors are.

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