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It makes for a dramatic YouTube video, many add impressions will be sold with breathless headlines, but look at how much force he needs to apply and ask how often you do that to your phone? These flaps will lead to someone at that company making sure it’s harder to repeat but it won’t make a difference for almost anyone in normal life.

(“Antenna gate” was similar: lots of heated prose while affecting many orders of magnitude fewer people than AT&T skimping on their network provisioning but the “look at those tech company engineers thinking they’re so smart” angle distorts things)

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> ask how often you do that to your phone?

Put your phone in your back pocket and sit down. This is exactly how bending became a big issue with the iPhone 6.

I've never understood putting your phone in your back pocket. Why sit on an $800-$1000 device? For me, it is not comfortable, and I would be paranoid about it falling out when sitting down or getting pick-pocketed. Can someone help me understand? I wonder if my front pocket preference stems partly from growing up with early cell phones that were much too thick to put anywhere but your front pockets (if even that).

As an example: women's jeans typically don't have front pockets large enough to hold contemporary phones. The solution is often back pockets, or carry it in hand (or in a bag).

It's called a mistake. People do things by mistake.

I carry my phone in my back pocket all the time, specialy in the office where I spend most of my non-home time. It's far more comfortable than cramming it into my front pocket.

Moving with a big phone in the front pocket is also annoying: my hip and leg bones make contact with the phone, and the pressure is noticeable. By contrast, my ass is soft.

Before sitting down, I remove it. Sometimes I forget and sit on my phone. And then I remove it.

Since my phone does not bend, nothing happens.

I sit on my phone all the time, take it in the shower, frequently drop it(on accident). So I guess the price of the phone doesn’t factor too much into how I physically treat it.

Regarding the back pocket, it’s just easier and a matter of personal preference.

I do not have front pockets in my female jeans :)

I buy $200 Chinese phones now with the same specs and more features than any US flagships. Not a worry if I bend it.

Do you do this regularly? Do you know anyone who does? I’m not sure I’ve seen it even once because it would be uncomfortable even if it wasn’t damaging.

iPhone 6 was designed badly, you have clear weak line going straight across the device starting with volume buttons and ending on sim tray and no bracing or even components on both sides of PCB in that spot. Apple knew about the faulty design before introducing the product.

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