iPhone 6 Plus bend

You mean like they way they released a buggy os or a phone with signal issues. Every company releases less than perfect products, how they react to rectify the issues is more important. Devices are more complex than ever, issues are always going to arise regardless of your extensive testing and beta testing. Pointing then out helps the company to solve them.

Respond to what. . . Does any car manufacture respond to a fender that dents. Metals dent and they bend. Take care of your possessions and you will not have these issues. Pettiness!

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i don't know what to say but i know that apple wont make something that ruin its reputation beside apple claims that there was only 9 case of bent iphone 6 plus and it's extremely rare to accidentally bend iphone 6 plus in front pocket and if it's true that iphone 6 plus get bent in front pocket you can use apple cases to protect it just remember its APPLE they will fix it.😉

exactly. i hate samsung just because it is jealous .

Would the people who are concerned about the 6+ bending due to all types of pressure sources, please refrain from buying them, so that the other people who do still wish to buy it won't have to wait too long? Thanks!

In the video where the guy bends the 6+ using deliberate force, and he tried the (apparent) same force on the other large smart phones that didn't bend. Well, those phones are not as slim. This only showed that the 6+ reacted accordingly to physical laws of nature. The other phones that didn't bend were thicker. They too would've succumbed to physical force that exceeds the structural strength for their body size and thickness.

Thickness (source for thickness measurement is www.gsmarena.com)

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 : 8.3mm

HTC One (M8) : 9.4mm

Moto X (2014) : 10mm

iPhone6 Plus : 7.1mm

The possible simple remedies are:

• Wear cargo pants with pockets on the side
• Use a small sling pouch to carry the 6+
• Use a sturdy case

Or maybe this will cloud the waters more...

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/26/consumer-reports-iphone6-bend-test/

According to consumer reports, 6+ stronger than 6, both stronger than HTC and somewhere in the middle of the phones in "bend" testing. All of the major phones should be fine with normal use which I presume means putting in pockets. Sitting on them is another thing all together.

TJBUSMC1973 wrote:

MadMax63 wrote:

Disgusted that Apple somehow failed to test the new iPhones in real world conditions. Is it arrogance or ignorance? Either way, heads should roll for this. I will be holding off on my purchase of the iPhone 6 until Apple fixes this issue. I've never had a phone bend in my pocket and don't plan on buying one that does.

Don't put your iPhone in your pocket without a protective case. Apple has never recommended putting an iPhone in your pocket, but they have recommended putting a case on the device. Use some logic & common sense.

PLEASE, please tell me you are joking?

I'm sure I remember someone calling it the internet in your pocket.

Barry Fisher wrote:

Or maybe this will cloud the waters more...

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/26/consumer-reports-iphone6-bend-test/

According to consumer reports, 6+ stronger than 6, both stronger than HTC and somewhere in the middle of the phones in "bend" testing. All of the major phones should be fine with normal use which I presume means putting in pockets. Sitting on them is another thing all together.

I agree, it's also weaker than the 5, and this is where part of the problem is.

If I buy my next car I expect it to be more efficient than the last one and that's at the same time as being lighter, faster and bigger and with more features, especially if it's a premium item. I suspect a lot of others are the same.

So what if the new one is still strong enough for 'normal use', (this is down to individuals), it's now perceived as an issue.

Feel free to take the two orders I cancelled. Enjoy.

Yep, because when you away from the dealer at your local car shop and he says, 'Yes, look at all these new features, Oh and it's significantly weaker than last years model but it's still perfectly safe'. Your going to ignore that completely.

Do you have an actual question? or are you just ranting? According to the support community terms, you are violating them by not asking a legitimate question.

gumsie wrote:

So what if the new one is still strong enough for 'normal use', (this is down to individuals), it's now perceived as an issue.

Actually the ISSUE not tested for by Apple OR Consumer Reports is SHEARING FORCE

Shearing forces are unaligned forces pushing one part of a body in one direction, and another part of the body in the opposite direction. When the forces are aligned into each other, they are called compression forces. An example is a deck of cards being pushed one way on the top, and the other at the bottom, causing the cards to slide. Another example is when wind blows at the side of a peaked roof of a home - the side walls experience a force at their top pushing in the direction of the wind, and their bottom in the opposite direction, from the ground or foundation. William A. Nash defines shear force in terms of planes: "If a plane is passed through a body, a force acting along this plane is called a shear force or shearing force."

Recommend getting a strong CASE, and or not sitting down in tight jeans with your phone. Exercise common sense. 😉

Apple and Consumer Reports did not test for SHEARING FORCE, only single point pressure.

single point:

Shearing force:

Your force diagram is incomplete...

You forget that those two bars on the side produce a normal force (Newton's third law, gravity down, normal back up). With that said, the forces are in the same direction as the forces shown with the guy bending his iPhone: two on the edges facing away from the back with central ones in the middle facing in the opposite direction. Neither picture you draw is sheering force.

An example of a sheering force would be ripping a piece of paper, two fingers adjacent to one another pushing in opposite directions to rip the paper apart.

I've no clue what the blue polygonal outlines mean as they are going in opposite directions (one "points" away from the back while the other "points" towards it).