Hey Guys, I'm about to upgrade to the iPhone 6 Plus and I intend to keep it for 2 or 3 years. However all this talk about it bending is making me worry that it wont last that long. Should I just get the iPhone 6? Otherwise maybe the apple cases will help with rigidity? What are your thoughts? I really want the 6 plus for media consumption and gaming so the screen size is a big deal. Not just using it for facebook
You'll be alright. This whole bebd gate definitely got thrown wayyyy out of proportion. Slap a case on it and it should be fine. If you're one of those back pocket people, I would switch to thd front. Lesser chance of being pickpocketed and you're not intentionally sitting on your phone
Its made out of aluminium.. Its a malleable metal, and when you have an entire device body made out of the stuff theres that slight chance that it will. The 6+ isn't the first iPhone to do this, while less reported, the 5 and 5s both did the same thing. The 6+ is just being blown out of proportion. You can't really blame them, the headline is attractive and tons of people will flock to read these articles. The thing that really just ticks me off is the endless amount of videos that are being made of people taking these phones and bending with all they're strength. Of course its going to bend, I don't understand why these people are suprised, it isn't made out of some extremely strong super material.
Something to consider is that so far there have been three people who have been noisy about bending their phones in every day use. Let's say of the 10m iPhones Apple sold on launch weekend that 100,000 of those were the 6 Plus which is probably incredibly low, but given the scarcity, let's just lowball. That's 0.003% of the iPhone 6 Plus units sold in this hypothetical. Is it possible there were some phones from a batch of aluminum that was softer than it should have been that bent in everyday use? Of course. Is it some massive recall-worthy thing that makes the 6 Plus not worth having at all? No, that's dumb. People love controversy and the only reason this is getting so much traction is because Apple is the king of mobile right now and anyone who thinks they've found any kind of chink in Apple's armor is rewarded with thousands of dollars of YouTube ad revenue. (21.5m views on the video that started this, that's ~insane~ money with the unskippable ads he's running.) Apple has always been great with supporting their new devices, particularly when weird problems like this pop up. Now everyone is chasing that 21.5m view video with their own video, making the whole thing look even bigger. But, hey, that's the internet.
Ok, I think you're a troll since you joined to a mobile gaming site and made your first post about this problem and went offline immideately. And I doubt you'd be an active forum member. I hope you're not though.
No I don't see how my post was any form of Trolling, I comment on Disqus mainly and needed to talk about this on the forums since its a lot of cash I'm about to drop. Not trying to get click bait. But hey think what you want. I must agree with Eli, just seems like everyone is jumping on the hate Apple bandwagon. I've always taken good care of my phone and I dont wear skinny jeans so I will be pretty sorted. Plus I think the Apple cases are great so i'll just slam one of those on it.
Well then be careful with your phone bud, even though its hard to bend it,it can still be bent just like iPhone 5-5s and iPod Touch 5G( I had one and I bent it and still it was working completely normal , then I shattered the screen while I was trying to fix it) I have some photos of it but I can't upload pics to the site anymore
Yea, that is the internet but.. Did you check Nokia Test Lab on the youtube? Why Apple doesn´t have? Huh? Same situation about iPhone 4. They didn't test it at all? Or what?
Apple has received 9 complaints of bent iPhones. There's probably more of them out there, but still the percentage has got to be ridiculously low if only 9 have come forward so far. And some percentage of those were no doubt bent by people doing something stupid like sitting on their phone or even intentionally bending it to see if it would bend if they tried hard enough. I guarantee there's at least one dumb user out there that actually did that.
Of course they test their devices, but when you're making quite literally millions of a certain product, you're going to have a fraction of a percent of units that are defective- Particularly when it's something as complicated as the iPhone assembled by human hands. That's just the reality of mass production. Prior to the internet, when you bought something at the store that was broken, manufactured improperly, or had some other issue you said to yourself, "Huh, that sucks," and then you either contact the manufacturer or return to the store for a replacement. That was the end of the story. You had a problem, it was solved. You got on with your life. In 2014, that same problem goes like this: You buy a product, you were one of the unlucky ones who got one that was broken, manufactured improperly, or had some other issue. Regardless of the fact that all those same support channels which have always existed still are there to take care of you as a consumer (and arguably have only gotten better as credit cards offer better and better warranty extensions, price protection, etc.) now what you do is make a YouTube video and see how internet famous you can get through generating as much outrage as you can. The internet as a medium has become incredibly click driven and absolutely nothing drives clicks like "Shiny new Apple product deeply flawed," regardless of how true it is. So, the situation has evolved into something everyone is talking about, the fact that the iPhone 6 Plus bends when it's in your pocket has become common knowledge, and according to Apple only 9 people have actually complained to them about it. Another relevant link: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/25/6845611/inside-apples-iphone-6-torture-building
Yeah Aluminium is a cheap metal, but there is also numerous grades which suit some purposes better than others. While I won't be trying it myself, from what I've seen it's fairly poor, but that could be just hype. Anodising should also strengthen the metal but thats variable too.
Just look at it this way - you can press real hard on your car, and bend the metal. Sit on the roof, it will bend. Use anything as it is not intended and you will get unintended consequences. There would only be a problem here if the problems occurred under normal use - eg. the antenna problems on the iPhone 4. I am willing to bet that any phone on the market could be bent. Just needs the right amount of force...
It's almost as thin as beer/coke cans now the thin thing has to stop or next time they will probably crumple and dent as well as bend. Personally I wish all OEMs would just stop it and give us bigger batteries to me that's the most important part of a portable device by miles and it infuriates me when they make it even thinner instead.
The whole thing is blown out of proportion by the "internet echo chamber". Just don't sit on your phone or treat it like a child's toy and it'll be fine
How did I miss this? Now I really want a 6+! One that I can slap on my wrist and it'll *POP* snap on!
