iphone 6 bending

Bendgate instances...

Yes, there has been 9 reported and recognised by Apple out of 10 million. I once bent an iPhone5S.

Pete

SurgeonMS wrote:

Bendgate instances...

Need more? every manufacturers phone bends (or breaks), be careful with them.

If you closely see, iPhone 6 bends are very subtle (except for Unbox therapy instance). Which means they were made with small forces (may be debatable but in practicality it seems to be the best guess scenario). Therefore iPhone 6 has a problem.

Also as aluminium is used, it doesn't spring back to original form when stress is removed. Therefore once bent, it will always stay bent. (Resulting a high chance of accidental transient bending forces will make a permanent bend.) In other words, other phones also bend to same amount as iPhone under same stress but they spring back and forget the incident or give in and break (if force is higher enough) but iPhone will make it a permanent memory.

Also, argument of all phones bend is old and broken. Please read from the beginning of the thread.

I'm an Apple user and I'm not here to put down apple in anyway. I'm just lost and don't know what to do now. However elegant your argument is, it doesn't help when facts are shaking the very foundation of quality we would expect from an apple product.

9 so far. It's an epidemic!

Pete

The power of nine is not to be taken lightly 😕

SurgeonMS wrote:

If you closely see, iPhone 6 bends are very subtle (except for Unbox therapy instance). Which means they were made with small forces (may be debatable but in practicality it seems to be the best guess scenario). Therefore iPhone 6 has a problem.

Also as aluminium is used, it doesn't spring back to original form when stress is removed. Therefore once bent, it will always stay bent. (Resulting a high chance of accidental transient bending forces will make a permanent bend.) In other words, other phones also bend to same amount as iPhone under same stress but they spring back and forget the incident or give in and break (if force is higher enough) but iPhone will make it a permanent memory.

Also, argument of all phones bend is old and broken. Please read from the beginning of the thread.

I'm an Apple user and I'm not here to put down apple in anyway. I'm just lost and don't know what to do now. However elegant your argument is, it doesn't help when facts are shaking the very foundation of quality we would expect from an apple product.

The facts are that all phones can and do bend when abused. You may not like that as it breaks your theory but it is the fact. Expecting different things to exhibit identical failures is very foolish.

The rest of the post is pure speculation (unless you are a materials force expert)

I advise you not to buy an iPhone 6

If you are risk averse because a problem that you know about and is indeed preventable by less than restrictive use; then you definitely should go with a different phone made from less pliable materials or at least materials that can spring back to original form. You will be missing out on a great iPhone, but based on the volume of adopters Apple will be OK.

WiseJD

It was a six, not a six plus and I had it four days when I noticed it was bending, and to be clear, it was not in a case (case was on order as was screen protection). Also to be clear, the bending was not significant; about a 1/32". But it was clearly there and bending at the top of bottom volume button (I always have my phone face down in my front pocket against my thigh and nothing else in my pocket so the screen is protected as much as it can be).

I'm going to make this my last post and the point of my previous posts is just this; I just think the six bends a little too easily due to its size and thinness and I believe Apple has a problem. If we were to compare it to another phone the same size and thickness, it may not be that it bends as easily, but as a design choice, I don't think a phone should be made this size and thickness with this type of shell.

You certainly can disagree with me. Whether or not it turns out to be a real problem or not only time will tell. All I'm stating is I did see the problem and I think it is a problem given the way I handle my phones, which I don't consider abnormal by any stretch.

I don't disagree that any phone will bend given sufficient pressure. By comparing it to my four, all I am pointing out is that I'm treating this phone no differently and that phone held up for four years without issue. In fact for the first year, it rode around in my pocket without a case. The six on the fourth day showed signs of bending. It may have before that as I didn't look at it until I saw a news post about the phones bending.

Also by comparing it to my four, I'm just trying to give you sense of the way I'm handling my phones. Obviously from the pictures posted, even a four can bend, which is why my phone never goes in a rear pocket. It may turn out that you simply cannot have a six in a front pocket. It may turn out that you cannot have a six in a front pocket even with a case, I don't know. I just think the phone should have been a bit thicker. It may turn out that if you make it thicker, it still might bend due to size alone (or it gets to be a brick, which is not useful either), and because of increasing sizes in general, phones simply can't live in pockets any more.

I'm not bothering reporting this to Apple because the bending is not significant enough to bother with. It's now in a case and I will closely watch it to see if it shows any additional signs of bending. If it does, then it will have to live in a belt case and I will be very disappointed with the phone.

The only reason I posted was to report what I experienced. Your experience may be totally different.

Jim.

This article was kind of interesting, although I am not thinking that it totally causes someone to negate the "Bendgate" story. Apples specific response about their engineering though is noteworthy. My current view is that I am happy to own an iPhone 6 and even as though I own an Otterbox Defender case I may not be using it regularly. Jim thanks for your post.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bendgate-truthers-claim-found-real-101714998.html

Thanks for the response, Seems like you still haven't grasped the concept of relative amount of 'abuse' which is the key point here. Every egg will break when smashed. However, egg shell will withstand stresses allowing it to be transported and stored. If an egg starts to break in regular transport or storage, then its a problem. Stating the fact that 'all eggs breaks when abused' theory to defend that looks foolish isn't it?

Yes I'm a material's stress expert. So there's that.

Thanks for the advice. I would have loved it if that advice was backed up by reason.

I'm in no way arguing with you or anyone for that matter. I'm just stating the facts objectively. (Hoping apple might feel the same way)

Thank you Jim. Sharing your experience is valuable. Hope your phone stay straight.

SurgeonMS wrote:

Yes I'm a material's stress expert. So there's that.

You just lost all credence with me at least.

Good luck with whatever it is you want.

Stupid questions get stupid answers. Really don't care to argue with you.

By the way Mr Materials expert, care to tell us which particular alloy of aluminium Apple use?

And its modulus of stiffness as well.