Have been taking EXTREMELY good care of my 6+, but the corners already have visible scratches. Anyone else experiencing this?
iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 8
MIKE L0WREY wrote:
I and the people I know feel that it's industructable with this protection
That is an unwise assumption. With any phone.
Pete
"feel" is is the key word. i didn't say they know or think that's its industructable. thx for you reply Pete.
Then your 'feeling' is way off the mark.
Pete
Hard to gauge how well people take care of their stuff, or whether its just a few people.
How do you carry your phone?
You see people doing the same thing at some of the “big box stores” - people think they can just keep bringing in broken stuff & it will be replaced. (I’d tell a story I heard in line at one of those places, with some guy bringing in a broken robot vacuum for his 6th repalcement, but I probably should not name names. Anybody still bringing in a broken item after 5 failures & replacements - is likely culpable themselves).
The iPhone 6 had some case slight flexing issues as a consequence of being larger form factor - and thinner aluminum being used, correct? That may be one source of the problem, in conjunction with people carrying them cavalierly in their pockets.
If it were me, I would decide it was a smart investment to get a screen protector after 2 phones - and get the polycarobonate one.
your coment is combative and counterproductive. You have only focused on one part of my post. When you do this you miss out out on the whole picture. Your assuming that nobody else feels the way I or the people I know do. Your assumption is way off. It's not out of the question to say that people feel there phone is industructable or highly protected or whatever adjative you like to use after they spend $50-$100+ for a case. The illusion of protection has been created and thus feeling is attached consciously or subconsciously. Why buy a case at all?
Pete was right & sure don’t see anything combative in saying that assumptions are not reality.
That’s simply true.
If you treat your device with kid gloves - then you are not buying into this presumption, correct?
If you DON'T, then its possible you are doing something untoward. Thay may not be the case at all, but attitude alone won’t cut it.
My phone is fine. What about the rest of my post? What are your thoughts on that? Maybe industructable is the wrong choice of words. However, it's obvious, nothing is industructable. Are saying there is no protection after I attach a case ? If ther is any protection, put it on a scale for me.
MIKE L0WREY wrote:
your coment is combative and counterproductive.
No it's not. Putting a Bull Bar on a car does not mean that hitting a Bull won't still cause damage. I'm only commenting on your comments.
Pete
No problem Pete. thx for chatting. If you find out or know anything about the stability of the hardware inside the iPhone 6+ during a fall with or without a case, plz lmk. Let's 'assume' the phone is dropped from a height that is relative to the height of a person holding the phone while standing.
From personal experience, our 2nd iPhone 6, which has been cased since it came out of the Apple box, and covered with a glass screen protector, has been dropped on hard concrete from waist height 3 times (that's I've seen, though there could be more instances as my partner isn't nearly as careful as I am) and the phone has suffered no issues. Not a cracked screen. No hardware issues. No software issues. I'll never understand why someone would spend from nearly $600 - $1000 on a small computing/mobile device, clad in glass and aluminum and not fork over a few dollars to protect it.
MIKE L0WREY wrote:
No problem Pete. thx for chatting. If you find out or know anything about the stability of the hardware inside the iPhone 6+ during a fall with or without a case, plz lmk. Let's 'assume' the phone is dropped from a height that is relative to the height of a person holding the phone while standing.
Goodbye. 🙂
Might as well buy a cheap plastic phone, if you're just going to cover it up.
ToastyFlake wrote:
Might as well buy a cheap plastic phone, if you're just going to cover it up.
You are more than welcome to do so. Me and most people will spend a little bit to provide better protection for a very expensive device.
My brand-new iPhone 6 has a couple of minor scratches on the screen after one week of very careful use. I'm not sure how much I actually care about the scratches - what matters to me is how the screen looks when it is in use, not when it is off. And to be honest, I'm just relieved to know that this probably is a design/production issue, rather than my having mishandled it unknowingly. Still, it doesn't seem like I will be able to pass this phone on to the next user in the same state I passed on my 3Gs.
Onkelpazuzu wrote:
And to be honest, I’m just relieved to know that this probably is a design/production issue...
This is completely incorrect. There is absolutely no data to support that claim other than anonymous posts by people claiming to have issues. Just because you read it on the Internet does not make it true. The ramblings and theories of non-technical posters as to what kind of glass is being used, what kind of protection coating is used, allegations of design faults or production issues are totally meaningless and anecdotal. This is exactly how so-called issues get conflated into pandemic failures. Repeating a baseless theory does not make it true.
A basic search into the past will reveal that these sorts of claims are always made after the release of a new product, every new iPhone model. Same goes for the justification offered by such statements as, “I never had this problem with my old iPhone” Numerous posters claimed that that “old” model had the same “issues” as the new one. It’s a self propagating falsehood. Those of us who have been around here for over a decade have seen these same discussions come and go many times over.
iPhone 6 screen easily scratched?
