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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.
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.
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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.
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.
It's going to be a big problem for them. These phones have only been out for a day or two, so what will the average Joe's phone look like after a month?
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
Or any other phone made of metal?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
1) Why would you put the volume button on the top of the phone?
2) Wouldn't it make more sense that it's bending around the volume cut-outs because they're a big void in the side of the phone? No matter how tough it is, if it's going to yield anywhere, it'll yield there.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
I find it curious in their examples, that four of the nine devices susceptible to bending are Apples, and one of the five non-Apple examples involved the device being smashed while sitting on its docking station. If one eliminates that specific outlier and focuses on phones that bend while in their users' pockets, then the iPhone line is a solid half of all types reported in their article.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Indeed, it's simple engineering mechanics. As you get thinner, the case gets weaker by a factor of (thickness ratio)^2. As you make it longer, the internal stresses in the metal go up by (length ratio)^2. Then, to ice the cake, there are cutouts which form stress concentrations which will be 1.5-3x the predicted strength if you don't account for the amplification due to shear flow around the opening (though I suspect there are internal bosses to mitigate this).
The solution, of course, is not to compromise the perimeter at all and put the buttons in the center of the back of the case. But if they did that, it wouldn't be innovated enough I guess. Maybe we'll get that in the iPhone 8 and it will be innovative by then.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?