Apple "Bendgate" FUD Ping!
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The phones are being bent by idiots who stick them in their back pocket and sit on them.
A friend just received a 6+.
We fooled around with it and came to the same conclusion:
“You are so cool, with a bent phone to match your bent mind.”
Stop being obtuse...
But, Apple also claimed the antenna problem on earlier iPhones was a display problem...it just did not show the right signal strength.
Multiple articles were written that people were holding their phones incorrectly.
Articles were written that the antenna problem did not exist or existed on other phones also.
Then, after months of complaints, Apple acknowledged the problem.
It may be true, though. Liberal companies use perfect materials from completely consistent suppliers. It's those conservative competitors that use trash.
It takes a special kind of moron to shell out $600-700 for a phone, shove it in a pocket and then sit on it. Even if the cost was hidden in a two-year lease commitment so it looked like the phone was only $200, why would you be so careless with something so expensive?
The reports of bent phone are from being in front not back pocket.. i carry my note 3 in my front pocket
But it is also the phone 6+ .. not iphone 6.
That's significant in the iPhone 6+ is longer, so more leverage and area to distribute force over the length to find a weak point
Having just watched the video the bent point is at the bottom left side button cutout... and the buttons seem to be lower down the body towards the center then the other large format phones..
In large format phones the ability to one hand reach a control is a concern so from an ergonomic perspective putting the buttons lower down the body makes sense..
But again leverage over length makes "closer to the center" bad for your weakest point
So you have the weakest point, the button cutout, closer to the fulcrum point over the longer lever of the 6+.
I want to feel sorry for Apple if this is whats happening..this classic engineering problem your trying to trade off things in this case ergonomic over mechanical requirements..
What’s the problem? I’d have thought a phone that conforms to a teenager’s butt-print when she puts it in her back pocket and sits on it, would be a feature rather than a bug. (Gotta be more useful than all those cracked screens I see on the bus.)