Of course, using a level of pressure you wouldn't apply to any phone... no-one in their right mind goes around "bending" phones. The thing is, when you have your phone in your pant pocket... and you squat down or something, the arch on your leg is going to easily create upwards of 50+ lbs of pressure at just the right place to create the bend. That's how my co-worker got a bend in his phone. That's right, a guy I personally know got a bend on his iPhone 6. That's why I think the 'only 9 people' line by Apple is absolute and total bull shit. It's infuriating that news journals are just buying it up like it's truth straight from God's lips.
Agreed.
I have bent extremely thick metal keys in my back pocket I assume just by squatting, and I am under 200 pounds in weight.
I only noticed because I went to unlock my door one day and the key didn't fit.
Thankfully I could hammer it back into place, but unfortunately the same is impossible with an iPhone.
But doesn't that just prove it's stupid to put a phablet in your back pocket? There's no hope of making a phone stronger than a thick metal key.
More like your coworker is bullshit, or you are bullshit. No, Apple's "only 9 people" line doesn't mean only 9 people have ever seen a bend, but it does mean that only 9 people actually contacted Apple about having a bent phone. If your coworker really did bend his phone like that, his very first stop should have been the Apple Store, to get it replaced, and he would have been part of that "only 9 people" statistic.
So either you're making this up, or your coworker is.
Also, Consumer Reports tested the iPhone (and several other phones), and determined that it takes 70 pounds of force to bend an iPhone 6 (matching the force necessary to bend an HTC One), and 90 pounds of force to bend a 6+.
> the arch on your leg is going to easily create upwards of 50+ lbs of pressure at just the right place
Bullshit. If you're creating 50+ lbs of force on an item in your pocket by bending over, you'd be breaking stuff in your pocket all the time. 50 lbs of force is a not-insignificant amount of force. And of course it takes more than 50lbs to deform the phone anyway.
Also, that test indeed shows the newer phones are structurally weaker than the 5, at any rate. The iPhone 6 can barely sustain half the pressure as the previous model...
In hand, the thing feels solid, and that's the important part to me. I think a very small percentage of people who destroy their iPhones will do it by bending, rather than dropping or dunking.
I have. I admit it actually felt sturdy and rigid, but I don't think we should put so much weight on it merely feeling sturdy and rigid. How it feels is just how it feels, feels can be very deceiving, they don't conclusively say whether something will last.
> But doesn't that just prove it's stupid to put a phablet in your back pocket? There's no hope of making a phone stronger than a thick metal key.
Putting it in one's back pocket is stupid, I don't know anyone who does that though (I don't know anyone who did that with their Galaxy Notes for years it's been out). An individual I know reports he had his iPhone bent while it was in his front pant pocket. He says he doesn't vividly remember when or how it was bent, but strongly suspects it's when he was squatting American style (like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Michael_V... ). It appears that Galaxy Note is able to withstand this kind of stress, it's just the iPhone 6 that cannot.
At present, I'm not sure what to make of this. I know one person already who had his iPhone bent, and plenty of folks online. But it's difficult to put a number on how many people at this time have had their iPhones bent (selection bias and all on online forums). I think we should give it about 6 months and see if more people are having this problem, as reliable and clear data on this issue is not out there for us to see at this time.