Bend it like an iPhone 6 Plus

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    Okay, that's a problem. Users of the new iPhone 6 Plus complain that their phone actually bends in their trouser pockets. The cause seems to be the size of the phone versus the very thin metal housin...

    Bend it like an iPhone 6 Plus
     
    Hilbert Hagedoorn, Sep 24, 2014
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    Darkest Ancient Guru

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    This issue really shouldn't have passed quality control.
     
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    lol, that's funny! Must wear baggy jeans with this phone - should be a warning on the packaging!
     
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    They could be using aluminium alloy 7075, and that wouldn't happen so easily. But what matters to apple designers is the looks, I bet they don't even know what 7075 stands for...
     
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    Asgardi Master Guru

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    Nah...

    iPhone 4 biggest new feature antenna: "You are holding it wrong"
    iPhone 5 finger print scanner: Just after NSA scandal
    iPhone 6 size: "Don't put it in your pocket"

    Somehow Apple always gets away with this...
     
    Asgardi, Sep 24, 2014
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    There's also a follow up test where he tries it on a note 3, for comparison to another big phone.

     
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    Darren Hodgson Ancient Guru

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    Sheesh, that is really bad for a premium phone! :3eyes:

    /tries to bend own HTC One M8

    Nope, that doesn't bend! :D
     
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    Remember rubber bumpers?
    Now Apple can sell Titanium casings for +300$

    *tries to bend Lumia 920...
    Nope, not bending also.
     
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    eclap Banned

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    Samsung using cheap plastic, right? Apple have a bit of an issue here.
     
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    Yep glad I did not wait for this phone. (Puts HTC one M8 back in pocket.)
     
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    No problems with my Nexus 5 either, which is a hell of a lot cheaper than this. Think I'll be sticking with Google or LG based phones in the future tbh, I'm finding it more and more difficult to justify the extra cost when I read about issues like this.
     
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    600 Euro? It costs 1100 Euro in Latvia! :D
     
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    OMFG.

    That is bad design.

    Apple always behind on features.

    But people sheeple love apple.
     
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    Ibow 6 the next evolution of curved phones.
     
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    I thought they were just trying to show off new flexible displays.
     
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  17. PieEyedPiper

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    Bent my 5s like that.
     
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    What a piece of ****, my lumia 1320 is bigger and it never ever bends. Even though the cover is plastic, the actual phone is rock solid and the price is a mere fraction of an iphone 6 plus. My last solid apple product is an ipod 20GB from 2005, it still works great, can't imagine a device like this to be functional 5 years from now, not to metion 10. :giggle2:
     
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    So it Bends and Blends now!
     
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    This is a huge fail by Apple.. My wife's iPhone 6 plus spends most of its time in her purse and when she got home, I was curious and took a look at it.. Sure enough, it had a very slight bend to it...

    The guy in the video blog above performed a similar test on the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it fared much better... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0
     
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