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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.
They weren't holding it in the pockets of certified apple jeans!
WTF do they expect.
I hate it when my Schwartz gets all twisted.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Better get that checked out at the Apple Store!
You're bending it wrong
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.
Just put it in your microwave for a minute and it will all be fixed!
Samsung needs to sue them for this innovation.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/316700/samsung-galaxy-round-and-5-other-curved-phones
Apple's race for thinner phones bites users in the ass.
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?
Obviously the iPhone was designed by men because the 6+ is only 5.5 inches...
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
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.
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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Not sure what the solution is but I'm sure Apple will have a fix out in no time.
I doubt that very much. I doubt they'll even acknowledge it.
If they say "oh, yeah, sorry, our phones bend", what can they do about it? They don't have a solution coming out of the factories. Since the problem is mechanical with the case and chassis being too thin to ever be reliably durable, that could mean a complete redesign of just about every component, including the circuit boards, glass, buttons, everything. (Although they might be able to replace the current aluminum chassis with titanium. That could make the phones strong enough, but way more expensive.) Next, they'll have to ramp up production of the new model and get a few million into the pipeline. That could take a year. Meanwhile, do you think they are going to pull the current phones off the shelves, so they have less to replace?
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.
Look to them to remain silent right up until some unlucky people bend them in the "wrong way" causing a short, burns, and or fires. That's when there will be a shitstorm of a recall.
John
It's obviously their new, patented, "bend to unlock" feature.
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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?
They could release an iOS update that prevents bending. They already released iOS updates for fast recharging via microwave and waterproofing support.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
It's (mostly) not the material, it's the geometry. The bending modulus of any material depends on the cube of its thickness. Making something both thin and rigid is disproportionately hard, no matter what material you make it out of.
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It only bends in the front pocket of hipsters' skinny jeans. So pretty much 100% of users, then.
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts.
And also with you.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
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.
It's obviously their new, patented, "bend to unlock" feature.
You can just microwave it to get rid of any bends.
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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