iphone 6 bending defect

SauRoNZA said:
Isn't the Plus even bigger than that though?
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Yea but the Note just doesn't bend in the way the iPhone can. It's not made of the same materials, even leaving aside its size. I certainly wouldn't consider it a defect of the phone and I think you'd need to give it significantly more pressure than just putting it normally in your pocket to get it to bend. It's just the same hype that always happens with the release of new iPhones.
 
Maybe this will stop the race of producing a phone that gets thinner and thinner with every iteration. I wondered a few years ago, when this race to get super thin phones would reach a stage when it was no longer physically strong.

For me I don't care too much for a thin phone - rather give me a generation older phone thickness, and with the extra 1mm or 2 mm savings in space, put a bigger battery in there.

WRT the bending issue, stupid is as stupid does. With an aluminium frame, of course it will eventually bend if you are stupid enough to treat your phone with those rigours....especially near the volume buttons (as per the video) as there is only about 1mm of frame on either side of the buttons to support the frame.

But...I am pleased to see the Note 3 held up well - that is my personal phone
 
Lolz at comments. I'm no samesong fan boy but apple apologists are so predictable.
 
But...
The build quality is so much better than the cheap plastic Samsung.

I can swear I have read that countless times here on MyBB.
 
RoMark said:
But...
The build quality is so much better than the cheap plastic Samsung.

I can swear I have read that countless times here on MyBB.
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I don't see a test of how far you can push a phone before it bends as any sign of day to day build quality.

It's really a bit extreme.
 
I said this in another thread as well but I just had to share it here.

It's a good thing that the Note 3 didn't bend the same way as the iPhone. Apple just might have sued Samsung if it did.
 
cerebus said:
Yea but the Note just doesn't bend in the way the iPhone can. It's not made of the same materials, even leaving aside its size. I certainly wouldn't consider it a defect of the phone and I think you'd need to give it significantly more pressure than just putting it normally in your pocket to get it to bend. It's just the same hype that always happens with the release of new iPhones.
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I agree that these bend tests are extreme. But on the other hand, these tests shows that the iPhone 6 Plus in fact bends significantly easier than the iPhone 6, HTC One M8, Galaxy Note 3, Motorola X or Nokia Lumia (can't remember which one). If one of these phones is more susceptible to bending, it most definitely is the iPhone 6 Plus.

In my view, Apple dropped the ball here just a little. They are supposed to be testing for issues like this. And clearly it is a issue: the extreme bending tests surfaced in response to multiple reports of people encountering this issue during normal use.
 
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