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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.
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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.
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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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."
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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!
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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?
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
"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.
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
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Had they remembered their high school physics, they'd have known that the ideal phone would be homogeneous, friction-less and spherical.
make something as thin as possible, and then users stick it in their back pocket, sit on it, and wonder why it bends.. :-p
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!
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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"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.
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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! :)
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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?
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.
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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.
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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
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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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LG G3; front pocket 4-12 hours a day and she's absolutely pristine. Maybe if Apple hadn't made the 6 so fucking long, or weakened the case with side buttons, or insisted on a (fairly) rigid material with poor toughness this wound't be an issue. But it's damned pretty when it's all fresh and new!
(I'd argue cyclic loading/fatigue, since Aluminum is *very* poor in such conditions, but nobody has had a 6 long enough to induce a fatigue crack).
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
On the other hand, it's so thin that you can now slice tomatoes* with it!
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I put my GS4 in my pocket with no case and I have never had any issues with that.
I've got an iphone 5s. I do not have a case for it, and I carry it around, unprotected, in my left front pocket. However, I also tend to wear baggy clothes that are getting baggier by the day as I continue to lose weight. Anyway - that phone looks like it is brand new, except for a small nick in the metal case on one side where I accidentally dropped the phone from quite a height onto a hard surface. No scratches on the glass, no bends in the case. I have no desire for an iPhone 6 Plus - those things are ridiculously long. But I'm just saying - as a smartphone user, this phone fits in my pocket, unnoticed most of the time. There's no need to wrap a bulky case around it. You'll be fine.
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Amazingly, if you carry your bent iPhone 6 into The Oregon Vortex or The Mystery Spot, it will appear to straighten out.
And the masses burned their skinny jeans in protest, ballsacks and knees everywhere rejoiced.
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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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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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.
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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...
It's the expected behavior of looking through the Apple reality distortion field.
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!
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Shit, I'm dead only a year or two and then this crap - seriously?
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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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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.
...because Android users don't all wear hipster skinny jeans.
...Bananaphone!
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A .MOV file hosted on a site whose index page was written in Microsoft Word? Wow. It's like a time machine shat on my internet connection.
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."