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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.
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.
He would tell the users they are not supposed to put an iPhone 6 Plus in their pockets.
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?
Sapphire glass wouldn't have solved the issue - by the time it was thick enough to make an appreciable difference to the phone's mechanical performance, the screen would look pretty dim. Steel would've helped (there's a reason the iPhone 4 is made out of it) but would've increased the weight markedly (there's a reason the iPhone 6 isn't made out of it). It's a difficult engineering trade-off when you're selling what amounts to a thin aluminium sheet with a cover glass on it, and I'm honestly surprised it took so long for people to notice.
I'm going to sit here smugly with my steel-bodied phone crammed into my jeans, safe in the knowledge that while it might make sushi of my legs if I sit wrong, it's not going to deform on me.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
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.
Hilarious. So people pay way over-the-odds for an Apple phone because it's so thin it could look like a credit card, only to cover it with a thick wrapper because the damn thing's too thin.
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"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?
The guy who made the video linked in TFS made another video of the Note 3, which is of a similar size as the 6+, and not only did he had to push much more strongly, he didn't manage to get it bent.
Now, that's anecdotal evidence, but your list is entirely pointless. Sure, phones will bend if you push hard enough. Tablets would too, and freaking laptops if you put your heart to it. The point here is that none of those other phones, including previous generation iPhones, have had a lot of claims of them bending. They're less likely to bend, largely due to different materials and especially different thickness. That's where I think the problem lies: stop making phones so fucking thin. Give us more battery instead or something.
Spot on commentary.
... aka Google hangouts.
You are saying what many Android users are saying around the virtual water cooler
"So how the hell did Apple release a phone with the camera sticking out the back, especially when increasing the thickness would have allowed for bigger battery and stronger case?"
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