Posted on 09/27/2014 11:06:55 AM PDT by Swordmaker
We stress test Apple's new phones, plus comparable models from Samsung, LG, and HTC
Cell phones
Two days ago, the Internet erupted with photos of bent iPhone 6s, and a very-viral video of a guy creasing an iPhone 6 Plus with his bare hands. It seemed like a serious concern, yet everything about the uproar was highly unscientific. We dont like unscientific, so we promised then that we would use our lab equipment to find out just how delicate the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus really are. We also promised to run the same tests on comparable smart phones. Weve done that now, and our tests show that both iPhones seem tougher than the Internet fracas implies.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerreports.org ...
"The results All the phones we tested showed themselves to be pretty tough. The iPhone 6 Plus, the more robust of the new iPhones in our testing, started to deform when we reached 90 pounds of force, and came apart with 110 pounds of force. With those numbers, it slightly outperformed the HTC One (which is largely regarded as a sturdy, solid phone), as well as the smaller iPhone 6, yet underperformed some other smart phones."
Probably just an optical illusion. There are a lot of them out there these days.
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I think it’s just the iPhone freaks are bent out of shape having to buy this junk every year or 2
Aren’t curved large-screen OLED TV’s the newest thing?
Does size matter, or just the radius of curvature?
Why? I sold my iPhone 5 16GB for $275 and the iPhone 6 64GB I replaced it with cost me $299. $24 for two years of excellent use of a pocket computer that doubles as a phone at $1 a month? That's a GREAT bargain, as far as I'm concerned.
The real junk are the Android phones that have no resale value. When I bought my iPhone 5 two years ago, I traded in my two year old iPhone 4s and pocketed $56 over and above the $200 I paid for my new iPhone. A friend who was with me traded in his six month old Samsung Android, bought with no contract for $499, to buy an iPhone 5, because the Android was giving him problems. . . and they gave him only a $37 trade in. Worthless junk.
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Now don’t try and reason with the apple haters, they hate because they’re ignorant. And some are even Luddite wannabes...
I use both. I have come to the conclusion the network is more important than the hardware!
You realize the actual cost of the phone was built into your monthly phone bill, right? Wholesale cost to the carrier that they pass onto you is about $550/unit.
My old iphone 4 16gb unlocked can still be sold for $150 plus...I use it as an ipod and buy a local sim for it when I travel internationally.
“I think its just the iPhone freaks are bent out of shape having to buy this junk every year or 2”
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Like moths drawn irresistibly to the light, the Apple haters and ADS (Apple Derangement Syndrome) sufferers are attracted to threads such as this and feel compelled to make derogatory comments.
How the hell did you get an iPhone 6 64GB for $299? The price for that phone unlocked is something like $900!
ALL Consumer Reports tests should be taken with a LARGE truckload of salt.
i.e. - don’t believe their tests due to built-in bias.
Their tests on stereo equipment/components (my industry) are an absolute joke and blatantly dishonest.
It’s a boo chit story, created by those busted up their new phone and don’t have a warranty to get another...
Hint:
“Stop putting yer dang’d phone in your back pocket and then blithly sitting on it”.
Cows...
Splint sucks.
We had to get their airwave device.
Phones were working fine, in our area and home, now they don’t work unless I drive 10 miles out, in any direction.
Now my phone makes and annoying four beeps sound when I’m home, on their gadget.
“Oh, were running new lines and upgrading the network”.
Uhm, no. You jerkoffs state in your last quarterly report you intend on distributing 3 million air devices by the end of 2015. Which, can only mean, you intend on leveraging my LAN and Internet connection, to avoid expensive upgrades to “Your” network and reduce traffic loads.
You are doing this on purpose and I expect there will be a class action soon declaring and proving as much.
A-holes. ..
I can keep my current rate of $115 a month. This includes 10gbss of data, unlimited texts and unlimited phone calls in all 50 states including it territories. This is IF I do the following
I add the iPhone 6 64gbs, then it will only cost me $31.25 extra a month for the next 24 months. That will pay for my phone. So I will not need to come up with $299 and it avoids the $40 activation fee too. At 18 months I can even upgrade to a different phone. If I do not change phones, then after 24 months my rate just goes back to $115 a month.
Again there is no down payment of $299, there is no activation fee of $40.
So all I'm looking at is $31.25(per month extra) x 24 (months) = $750 for the iPhone 6 64 gbs.
Now if you take the other option of paying $299 up front for the iPhone 6 64gbs . You still have to pay the $40 activation fee and your rate will still go up $25 anyway. So you end up paying $299 (iPhone 6) + $40 (activation fee) + 600 ($25 (a month) x 24 (number of months))= $940.
Plan A is $200 cheaper than plan B over 2 years.
Finally, AT&T offered me $200 for my current iPhone 5 32gbs. I think I can get more for it on Craig's List. My iPhone 5 looks and operates like it did on day one. I have zero problems with this phone.
That’s not the cost of the phone. You are being suckered into contract extension by AT&T, and you will pay for it in the long run.
Many of us, myself included, do not use AT&T or other contract carriers—we simply buy unlocked phones and go where we want.
Of course I do, but I also know they sell it to me retail. . . but so is the retail cost of any other new phone on a plan. . . and the base plan is the same whether the phone you select is $755 (my actual out the door retail price for an iPhone 6 with 64GB), $699 for a Samsung, $649 iPhone 6 16GB Smartphone, $499.(iPhone 5s), or $249 to $399 for a more limited Android smartphones, or $199 for a dumb feature phone. . . You pay for it. TANSTAAFL. Or in this case, TANSTAAFSP, or TANSTAAFiP!
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