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Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus
MojoKid writes: Apple's iPhone 6 Plus weighs six ounces, and it's a scant 7.1mm thick. As an added bonus, according to a number of users, it has a hidden feature — it bends! And no, we don't mean it bends in a "Hey, what an awesome feature!" sort of way. More like a "Hey, the entire phone is near to snapping" kind of way. What's even more troubling is that many of the users who are reporting bent devices also claim that they were carrying it in front pockets or in a normal fashion as opposed to sitting on it directly. Either some of the iPhone 6 Plus hardware is defective (the vastly preferable option) or it's because the tests run by other venues are putting different kinds of stress on the chassis. It's not clear what the story is. Hopefully Apple will clarify it soon.
(punch line)
They weren't holding it in the pockets of certified apple jeans!
WTF do they expect.
that device has a 6 inch screen, but the case is all plastic. It would simply break at some point,
but otherwise it is much more tolerant towards bending forces.
Afterwards the phone will be subjected to a vomit test on the Oktoberfest.
Cheers.
I loved the Blendtech ads where they would drop phones in a blender:).
Because a large portions of Americans are obese, having the iPhone in such cramped conditions under extreme pressure for extended periods of time is causing the issue.
Not sure what the solution is but I'm sure Apple will have a fix out in no time.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Better get that checked out at the Apple Store!
Perhaps Apple had planned to have the stronger SapphireGlass for their large phones, which would have mitigated this problem. But to release a high end phone with this obvious engineering deficiency is like a smack in the face to loyal Apple consumers.
They're holding it wrong obviously.
"You're sitting wrong."
Summation 2
How about "hopefully some objective sources will analyze and post conclusions soon". Apple isn't going to be even remotely objective at all, since all we'll get from them is something like "you're putting it in your pocket wrong".
He would tell the users they are not supposed to put an iPhone 6 Plus in their pockets.
Just put it in your microwave for a minute and it will all be fixed!
Apple shouldn't have invited U2 but Keane to sing "Bend and Break"!
The Reality distortion field has hit critical mass. The phone isn't bending as there is no phone, it is only yourself that is bending. Oh, that excuse didn't work? How about: Apple is the first to invent a phone that bends over backwards for the user. Imagine the possibilities!
Samsung needs to sue them for this innovation.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/316700/samsung-galaxy-round-and-5-other-curved-phones
...concerned about the angle of that guy's thumb?
All things considered I could bend most so called smartphones these days but why would you bend your brand new phone? -some people are weird.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
It was reportedly in the front pocket, not the back. The phone was bent by pressure exerted on it by cloth, apparently!
Apple's race for thinner phones bites users in the ass.
... the phone will either break or bend. Solution: Don't sit on it with your big fat arse.
Err...
Big fat arses not neccessary.
Apple's 6 phones are too bigger than their width -- this bending is caused due to the extra moment experienced by the curvature of thighs. Now, since there is no "vertical" element (if the phone is kept horizontal) to counter this moment duo, the phone bends.
"You need looser pants."
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No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
There are issues, here is mine after 4 hours of use
http://qfactor.us/IMG_3616.mov
I'll assume option '3' for the moment:
Out of a sample size of ten million people, chances are very good that some of them will do very stupid things (and then claim they didn't).
Mind you, I'm perfectly willing to accept that the phone has a defect in design or construction, but I've had enough experience in troubleshooting and repair to lose all trust in humanity.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
The revolutionary iPhone 6 Plus is designed for rich lifestyle integration. It is helpful in so many areas of life that it is really not meant to ever leave the user's hand.
Apple just needs to do a better job communicating this directive to its followers, and once they do that, people will start using their iPhones correctly.
I guess when you 3D print your new phone click the "thicker case" button. It might take a few more minutes to print out.
It's not apples fault. It's bad design of the human body! Apple is perfect, it's gods/evolutions fault!
Basic rule (for men and some ladies) don't put anything bigger than your sausage in your pockets.
Ladies already know to put the phone in their purses.
Could drive a truck over it, still wont budge. The reason i bought it was that i destroyed my Nexus 5 and im the destroyer of phones. I could chose a phone that suited me better because there are choices.
My point is that one size do not fit all. Iphone is a series of design choices made by a committee where much of it are trade offs. As such the phone has numerous small deficiencies not because of design failure but because so many different goals are supposed to be catered by a single model instead of tons of models catering to different goals.
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Damn you hipsters in skinny jeans!
Yeah, and you can always trust the users. Like when they say "it got wet", which means they dropped it in the toilet. Or "it suddenly stopped working" which means they dropped it in the parking lot and a car ran over it.
I managed to bend a company iPhone 5 very slightly last year; I don't know when or how. So I'm not surprised something even thinner and completely aluminum can bend.
I have the regular iPhone 6 right now and I tend to be careful with it. I have it in a soft-case for now but I'll probably put it in a more rigid case once a nice one comes out. Supposedly people are still bending the regular 6, but nowhere near as easily as the 6 Plus.
Not my phones. So far this has never been a problem and i have had all the Nexus devices. Only one that has bent are the Note 2 but it just snaps back to original shape. And i sat directly on it with my fat bum.
My newest mobile wont even budge if i jump on it.
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See also: Batter Wife Syndrome
Surely a big fat arse would be better? Spread the pressure around a bit. Don't sit on it with your bony arse is what the advice should be.
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It was reportedly in the front pocket, not the back. The phone was bent by pressure exerted on it by cloth, apparently!
Well, if they had been wearing their Apple-certified turtlenecks instead of heathen-wear, that would never have happened. Can't blame Apple for weak-faithed users.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Yes, because people's fat beer belly's and thighs are not on the other side of the cloth, so it must be the cloth that's bending it.
I've been sitting with phones in back pockets for 20 years without any ill effects(oh, wait, a lot of time ago An antenna broke loose...Yes way back when mobile phones still had external protruding antennas).
2 things to note:
1) Never tried sitting with an iphone in my back pocket
2) I like sports, tht is, practicing them, so my is isn't big nor fat...
So, from the video you can see it clearly bend around the volume cutouts. Then even mentions that. I suspect it was engineered to survive flexing in that direction... and then later they moved/changed where the volume cutouts would be. If those buttons were on top, this wouldn't be a problem.
Form over function is always a loser.
For a commercial where he bends an iPhone 6+. Now that would be funny.
I have a so-called "feature phone". Chosen specifically for it's size, because my previous feature phone didn't fit comfortably in my pocket. I ride my bicycle to work, which makes this extra important.
Recently, several people have been trying to convince me to get a smart phone, and I've been telling them that I don't want a desk phone, I will consider a smart phone when it fits comfortably in my pocket. And they keep telling me that their smart phones fit just fine in their pockets.
Now that we see all these stories about bent iPhones, Apple fans have been busy telling everybody that it's not a problem with the phone, it's simply those users being stupid for putting an iPhone in a pocket.
Aluminium is a terrible material to make a phone from and I bet Apple have milled it to within an inch of its life. Maybe it doesn't matter so much for a smaller device but these phablets are so big that they are going to suffer increased leverage and bend forces. Perhaps it would have been better to use plastic over a steel frame like most other phones. It might not look so good but it would probably be stiffer and more resistant.
That is plain stupid. Get a case and a clip! Geez!
They said the exatcly same thing about iphon 5, and I have never had any trouble (incluiding using it on the back pocket or whatever).
"Hopefully Apple will clarify it soon."
Oh you cannot be serious. Who wrote that? They haven't admitted anything EVER when it comes to defects. You're holding the antenna wrong. You're lighting the camera wrong. You're downloading iOS7 wrong. You're driving down an airport runway because we said it was a road wrong.
This is such a classic example of Apple's new style of function design style, which actually isn't all that new. Remember the 1980's Apple that overheated constantly because Steve Jobs didn't like fans? Remember the 2008 Apple that overheated constantly because Steve Jobs didn't like fans?
Right now this may just be some random blog from someone careless that has been over publicised. As others have pointed out there are photos of other phones which have bent too, but it's hardly a widely reported problem.
Now it could very well be that the iPhone 6 has a design flaw, and we could see Tim Cook attempt to revive the reality distortion field of yesteryears by jumping up on stage and bending a Samsung and saying "see all phones do this" (see the you're holding it wrong debacle).
Or it could be nothing.
Time will tell.
...but his reality distortion field lives on.
The more important question is how the hell are people getting that in their front pocket? What kind of pants are you people wearing?
Apple : Get Bent
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
weight of half a person vs tension in cloth
That is the question.
Had they remembered their high school physics, they'd have known that the ideal phone would be homogeneous, friction-less and spherical.
It's the users fault! The Iphone 6 is meant to be adored from afar, and is not designed to be placed into your pocket. Putting an Iphone in pair of jeans worn so tight that it makes you look like George Michael is abuse and will not rightfully not be covered by apple care.
So far I have seen like 50 websites reporting this. They all use the same video of a guy sitting there bending his phone. Then they mention "some users" without any proof. Not saying that there isn't a problem but OH MY how fast this has been hopped on.
make something as thin as possible, and then users stick it in their back pocket, sit on it, and wonder why it bends.. :-p
Yes, because iphones are definitely not meant for pockets. We need an apple designed 200 dollar pelican case and lug it around like 1980's bag phone. How retro!
I have seen like 50 + websites reporting this. They all seem to have the same video. Guy sitting at his desk bending his phone. Then they state "some users report" without and data or evidence. Not saying that there is not a problem but OH MY how this has been jumped on.
It only bends in the front pocket of hipsters' skinny jeans. So pretty much 100% of users, then.
New incentive to buy rigid cases. Time to go buy Otterbox stock!
They SAT on it.
Seriously, I learned this the hard way when I used to put my pencil in my front pocket walking between classes and forgetting to take it out before I sat down. You don't put things that don't bend in your pocket on the one place on your body that does bend with the most force. Bananas? ok. sausages? sure. Fish? unfrozen. Pencils and high tech gadgets? NO!
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Kull: She told me she was 19!
"Why ARE YOU F'ING BENDING IT"
That would be the press release. I'd tip my hat.
"It automatically conforms to your body contours."
Or is it quality-control inaction?
Obviously do not put thin sensitive material in your pockets. It would not matter if was made of solid steel, something that thin and high is going to be quite easy to bend.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Phones aren't meant to be indestructible. Millions are easily getting along without bending them. If you need extra protection from your carelessness, put it in a heavy duty case. From the videos I've seen of people bending them, it takes quite a bit of force.
That being said, as an iPhone 6 owner, I don't want my next phone to be any thinner unless they invent some case and glass where it is flexible.
The last time I've had a device break in a pocket was a Franklin REX (which was a PCMCIA shaped PDA) back in the 1990s. Every other phone and PDA I've had never even had an issue with bending, and some devices have definitely gotten the "bum rush". I do tend to keep a fairly heavy duty case on them when possible, which might mitigate some things.
I am guessing Apple wanted to keep ahead in the CPU and battery race, made their devices bigger for more surface area for dispersing heat and a bigger battery... but not everyone wants a phablet. For me, the iPhone 4's screen was good enough and the 5/5S is OK. Any bigger, and one might as well just go for a 7 inch tablet.
I bet if you put any 6" screen device in your pocket and sit down, it will either bend or crack. I've had 3 phablets. Dell Streak5, Note1 & now a Huawei Ascend Mate2. I have always carried them on a pouch belt case because they are safer inside a padded case & easier to extract.
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And yet I've had two of those phones and I've never experienced anything close to the bending issue. Neither has anyone I know (Blackberries and S4's are pretty prevalent through my friends and co-workers), nor have I seen any news about it.
How else will everyone make money if not through Apple link-bait articles. Just think of how much money is going to be made only by the "your're holding/storing it wrong" comments.
It might be even be enough to fix ./ Beta.
Show us a movie of you jumping on it! :)
-- Cheers!
You fucking faggots. "Look how THIN this is, Bruce!"
Ha hah, you bone smuggling pirate smoking knob gobblers!
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-new-iphone-screen-2012-1
When Steve Jobs was around, he actually used the iphone day-to-day before it shipped to make sure it would meet user needs. When carrying it in a pocket left its screen annoyingly scratched, he bitched out the product development team and made them find an entirely new material for the screen just scant weeks before the product launch.
Bet the new CEO didn't carry an iphone 6 day in and day out for weeks during its development to see how well the design would face the real world. And if he had, there's no way a supply-chain guru would call for a major redesign to the product just weeks before planned launch day.
Don't put a $600 piece glass in your pocket, sit down, and then complain when it breaks.
Why is apple so obsessed with thin? If apple doubled the thickness it would still be a rather thin phone.
It could then double the battery life, make it waterproof, beef up the shock protection and have room for
a better camera. As has been noted, the current iphone is so thin that the camera sticks out. At least
make it that thick. Heck, it might even be able to add an option for a keyboard. I don't see anyone
saying that their iphone is too thick but I do know alot of people who would like a smartphone with
a longer battery life so why would apple make a phone even thinner instead of using that extra space
for a larger battery and other features that people actually want and are willing to pay for?
I think "high end" is the mistake part. Over a year ago, I bought a 7" tablet for less than a hundred bucks, but it was still bigger than the iPhone 6+. I'm not putting the iPhone 6+ down but please, a little perspective. It's just a scaled down tablet with an extra networking interface.
FWIW I trashed that tablet within 4 months. It was an overall good machine, the only major over-the-top shocking defect being that it took a special charger rather than USB, but Apple's phablet has that has same design error. For a $69 machine, though, that's acce-- well, no, it's unacceptable, which is why nobody in their right mind ever gets fooled twice.
But anyway, it was a good machine but the physical wear and abuse it took in my pocket and through my habits, was brutal and I eventually cracked the screen. Those forces are the nature of a pocket (or at least on a guy like me) and the larger something is, the more is matters.
Eventually I realized that the ideal (well, not ideal, but optimal-given-today's-tech) super-portable machine is less than 7". Not because I don't like using larger ones (I do) but because it's hard to make 'em tough enough for serious portability.
Looks like Apple has further narrowed down the range to being less than 6". But let's remember there's also some incompetence on their part too: their computers really do look absurdly thin. They could have easily put an extra ten bucks into making it thicker, so the "walls" would be stiffer, and also resulting in more battery space (ok so call it $20 by the time you add the second battery).
So Apple's probably made a good machine for people who don't carry it with 'em all the time (might be nice for the bedside), but in terms of case design they're where the cheap Chinese allwinner machines were, a while back. The iPhone 7+ might be a great machine if they learn the same lessons all the other companies did. (Make it thicker and stronger, and fix the nonstandard charger thing.)
Wonderful. The phone will adjust to fit its contanier, i.e., your body wear. Right now, I'm watching CNBC and they're showing the bending of the new iPhone. One idiot is saying this is by design because it can fit in your variously shaped cargo pants pockets. It's a real advantage for the larger iPhone 6 plus which needs to bend and is easier to bend because of its length.
Good grief. Apple fans in this case are crazy.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
No, I would bet that the lawyers are advising them to silently let this go forever, hoping the bending problem doesn't catch on in the mainstream media, or picked up by the late night comedians. They'll wait for it to blow over like they did with the antenna problems on the iPhone 4, because ultimately that proved to be nothing to them.
Less than 2 hours after your post, Whoopie Goldberg and co (on The View) are making fun of the bending issue - "what if it were a vibrator, or a combo iPhone/iVibrator?"
Comparing your latest and greatest to a dildo on (inter) national TV ... and that's only the start.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Am I the only one who thought this was about a software vulnerability? Warping. War-Ping. Ping of Death style.
I want my good old times back.
Now get off my lawn.
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All those "Will it blend?" videos from blendtec mixie company CEO... Now they got stiff (ahem, pun) competition from "will it bend" videos.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Why? Is carrying a few extra ounces around with you REALLY that hard to do? My Droid4 is 12.7mm (.5 inches) thick, has an awesome slide-out keyboard, and the best feature of all.... it does not bend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The return of the phone holster will be next years hot accessory. The iPhone 4 made bumpers cool, now they're going to bring back the day of the belt-mounted phone clip.
Please excuse me while I go throw up.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
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Why is getting wet a problem for a modern phone? Aren't they all IP certified since Sony started doing that years ago?
That is what happens if design ignores physics. Not that this is the first time Apple failed in that way. I guess the iPhone users have it coming.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Do you work in an Apple store or does the Kool Aid get shipped to your home?
I put my GS4 in my pocket with no case and I have never had any issues with that.
Well, you need two points of force to bend something. And without the cloth, you'd just have pressure from the back. The cloth must be a contributing factor.
Now, to be fair, they were probably jeans, and a good pair of jeans are quite strong.
Amazingly, if you carry your bent iPhone 6 into The Oregon Vortex or The Mystery Spot, it will appear to straighten out.
Besides pockets, what is the "normal method" of carrying a phone?
You know, the ones he had in the pipeline before he died. You won't get the "you are ???????ing it wrong" response this time, though.
First, I do buy products from Apple, but I am not a fanboy so
I tend to be realistic in my assessment of Apple products rather
than ignoring obvious flaws ( for example, when Apple took away local
sync in iTunes, that was an inexcusable thing to do ).
Since Jobs departed, I have noticed an increasing trend of Apple
introducing products which CLEARLY have not been tested for
flaws or design problems.
This phone bending is the latest example of products being released
without adequate testing.
There are also a lot of flaws in the current version of OS X, and the same goes
for iOS 8. I doubt I need to go into detail on how badly iTunes sucks these days,
because that will be obvious to anyone who uses iTunes.
The bottom line as I see it is that no one at Apple is paying attention to the details
that matter to real-world users. Sure, Tim Cook might be smiling now, but wait
a few years and see how things are.
Apple is headed for a cliff, and Tim Cook is driving the bus.
And the masses burned their skinny jeans in protest, ballsacks and knees everywhere rejoiced.
It's an iPhone so up the rectum.
In the year 2014, weight-challenged fanboys and fangirls would sit on their plus sized cellular phones made by Apple and they would bend to the curvature of their buttocks.
(build the story :) )
Their clarification is that it will be fixed on the iPhone 7.
Deep within the skunkworks of Apple a conspiracy was starting to form. These plus sized phones were not made out of aluminum as specified but a more malleable british metal called aluminium (al-loo-MIN-ee-um). The question is how much did Britian pay underaged China workers to use the metal with the additional 'i' in the name and make it appear like an honest mistake
The official chemical name IS Aluminium with Aluminum being an alternate spelling.
Demonstrably not true.
Going to get all crazy here, but maybe... In a purse?
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You're carrying it wrong!
You're bending it too high, but no worries Apple sells Bender Bending Rodriguez kits that will do it correctly and rob you blind at the same time.
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Well played captcha system.
It doesn't hurt iPhone sales, at least not by much. People will adapt to it - by putting a hard case or whatever else required. You must remember that more than half of iPhone buyers are not buying because they objectively evaluated it and judged it to be the best phone they can have. They buy it because it is THE thing to have. So what if it has problems, as long as there is a solution (may be even better if Apple makes an expensive, really expensive) case, it will become even more aspirational. "I'm soo rich I can afford not just the phone, but also this case"!
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"That's the wrong pocket!"
I'd like to explain stress vs strain. Stress is related to force while strain is related to displacement. No matter what thin phone you are putting in your pocket the phone will conform to your body. Strength isn't the real issue. The issue is yield strain. This is how far you can bend something before it yields (permanently deforms). Aluminum while stronger (can take more force) than almost all plastics cannot bend as far without yielding. Aluminum yield strain will be around 0.4% while plastics like polycarbonate will be more like 2.6%. Effectively this means you can bend a piece of polycarbonate about 6.5 times as far as piece of aluminum before it permanently bends. Yes it will take quite a bit more force to permanently bend an aluminum phone than a plastic one but that force is small enough that it will not be the limit. The shape your body and pocket form is going to force the phone to that shape.
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Ordinary cotton denim is plenty strong enough to do this. Testing a much smaller sample than a pants leg (two 1" square gripping pads separated by 3" of fabric) showed that ordinary denim can withstand over 800 Newtons (176 pounds) before breaking. http://www.itc.polyu.edu.hk/Us... A piece of fabric the size of a phone, being pulled on by the force of the leg, is going to be able to easily transfer the weight of a human into a force that can pull the phone around their leg. Given the video showed a guy bending a phone by pressing with his thumbs, a pants leg could easily apply as much force.
John
I'm convinced the 'SapphireGlass' display 'leaks' were iPhone-6 sized prototypes for the tempered glass screen protectors sold by a variety of manufacturers, for pretty much every model of smartphone.
Zagg, for instance boasts theirs has a hardness of 9H, which is in the same range as Sapphire.
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
Remember the 2008 Apple that overheated constantly because Steve Jobs didn't like fans?
Actually, no...
Which model is that? The Macbook Air came out around that time, but it has fans.
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
Scratch that - 9H is the pencil hardness scale:
(reference: https://iloome.wordpress.com/t...)
9H is hard enough to resist keys & knives, though.
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
They haven't admitted anything EVER when it comes to defects.
True hardware wise. They did at least 'fess up to the Maps fiasco, as at least this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... no doubt remembers...
(Cr)apple products, the iPhone 6 is vastly overpriced, extremely cheaply made JUNK!!
It's the expected behavior of looking through the Apple reality distortion field.
It was the problem with specs.
Well, sir, there's nothing on Earth
Like a genuine, bona-fide
Electrified, six-inch iPhone 6 Plus.
What'd I say?
iPhone 6 Plus!
What's it called?
iPhone 6 Plus!
That's right! iPhone 6 Plus!
iPhone 6 Plus.
iPhone 6 Plus.
iPhone 6 Plus.
I saw those leaks they had me wowed.
We've made some changes to iCloud.
Is there a chance the phone could bend?
Not on your life, my hipster friend.
What about us brain-dead slobs?
You'll just worship Mr. Jobs.
What's the point of that huge bezel?
Just more space for fans to revel.
16 gigs is too little space.
Pay the upcharge to keep pace.
I swear this phone's your only choice,
Throw up your hands and raise your voice.
iPhone 6 Plus!
What's it called?
iPhone 6 Plus!
Once again.
iPhone 6 Plus!
But iOS is still shitty and broken.
Sorry, Slashdot, the mob has spoken.
iPhone 6 Plus!
iPhone 6 Plus!
iPhone 6 Plus!
iPhone 6 Plus!
iPho, d'oh!
Shit, I'm dead only a year or two and then this crap - seriously?
Yours Posthumously,
Steve Jobs
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
Build a phone so big no pocket can hope to contain. Problem solved.
the phones are bending around the cutouts for the side buttons - a clear indication of structural weakness from the off. Aluminium alloy is not meant for such thin devices.
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Wesleys's simple solution (try saying that 10 times fast)
invert the photon charge of the deflector array... AGAIN
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Seriously. They prioritize form over function in many of their design decisions: thin aluminum cases that scratch and dent (and now frames that bend), chiclet keyboards with no tactile feedback for centering your fingertips, ultrasharp edges on laptop wrist-rest area that cuts into your wrist, glossy screens that have tons of glare, non-user-replaceable batteries that require you to send the device for service unnecessarily, etc.
I'm gonna guess this isn't covered under the warranty...
...because Android users don't all wear hipster skinny jeans.
...Bananaphone!
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
i'm always telling apple fanboys to get bent.
Ahh yes, the old "the users are wrong" problem. I should have known that would be the underlying cause of all this.
have curves
Oh, my bad. I guess that was just another small mistake. Well then, I guess we'll just have to wait for the 'real' fix. You know, that thing that other manufacturers refer to as a finished product. Apple applies a different standard. I believe it's referred to as the Apple experience. That's the experience you get from Apple announcing the product to the tech writers swooning over the product to the frenzy of idiots buying the product. Of course Slashdot never falls for it. Slashdot doesn't know swoon
"Do not try to bend the phone — that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no phone."