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Consumer Reports test results find iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed
Consumers Reports ^ | September 26, 2014 | CU Staff

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 don’t 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. We’ve done that now, and our tests show that both iPhones seem tougher than the Internet fracas implies.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; ios; iphone; iphone6
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To: FourtySeven

Why are you talking about contracts? Only in NA does anyone do a contract. Everywhere else, it’s a la carte.


61 posted on 09/28/2014 2:20:49 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Pearls Before Swine

They’re made that way. Bend them enough and they’ll break too.


62 posted on 09/28/2014 2:35:01 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: dinodino
Why are you talking about contracts? Only in NA does anyone do a contract. Everywhere else, it’s a la carte.

I suppose that would be pretty silly unless it were people in North America having a discussion on a US-based Web site.

63 posted on 09/28/2014 9:22:30 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Swordmaker
One small correction. It's nine complaints, not six.

That's "reported", and that's also in the first week. With time, the number of bent iPHones can only go up.

Also, one must remember that, the initial week's purchases were mostly done by the iFaithful, which means that, they're unlikely to report any problems and might just take their phones to the local Apple stores for repairs with no fuss.
64 posted on 09/29/2014 5:42:57 AM PDT by adorno (Y)
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To: ReignOfError

Just heard back from my friend. The phones he took back to Saudi were purchased at an Apple Store in Orange County, California. In his words, “I got a couple iPhone 6s & 6 plus. The T - Mobile version is unlocked, meaning you can use any GSM Carrier SIM Card.”

So, there you go. The phones were unlocked right out of the box.


65 posted on 09/29/2014 1:54:29 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Uh huh. I don’t know what you think that proves. You claimed that the Apple store sells only unlocked phones, which is false.


66 posted on 09/29/2014 3:10:22 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: Swordmaker

So if the thing doesn’t give, what’s it going to do to the back pocket of your pants after you sit down?


67 posted on 09/29/2014 4:32:48 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: ReignOfError

This whole argument was not with you, but with the posters whom said that it’s impssible to buy an unlocked iPhone 6!


68 posted on 09/29/2014 5:31:12 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino; ReignOfError
This whole argument was not with you, but with the posters whom said that it’s impssible to buy an unlocked iPhone 6!

No, dinodino, I said that Apple said they are not selling "unlocked" iPhone 6 unconnected to carriers. Your friend is violating his contract. That is between him and T-Mobile and his conscience. You still cannot walk into an Apple retail store, or even the online Apple Store and purchase an "unlocked" Apple iPhone 6. They WILL refuse to sell it to you. You have to resort to subterfuge to buy one, lying about your intended use. A straw purchase with the intent to violate your legal contract.

I got the impression, from the way you wrote your replies, that your friend had left the country some time ago. If so, your claim he bought iPhone 6 and 6plus to take back to Jeddah are very hard to swallow. Unless he stood in line for hours, it's unlikely he got both at the OC store the way you described which was "the first week they came out," implying a week other than the current week in which you made that claim, when he was already in Jeddah. The problem with that is that the "current week" WAS the week in which iPhone 6 was released and had been only available for very few days and we had been having this discussion for several days already. You implied that the iPhones he bought were bought prior to the week we were having the discussion, and therefore could NOT have been iPhone 6es. This smacks of throwing things against the wall to make people believe your story.

The time frame doesn't fit. If they were newly purchased, you would have said, "he just bought them Friday or Saturday, before he left for Jeddah." As Judge Judy says "If it doesn't make sense, it's a lie." I'm sorry, dinodino, your statement didn't make sense, because you didn't even know when the iPhone 6 was released. . . and this late claim to attempt to validate your friend bought iPhone 6es doesn't make sense either. The fact that they don't need to be hardware unlocked from T-Mobile as a carrier was not revealed until the middle of last week when some bloggers who tried doing it started talking about it.. I already told you when the iPhone 6 was released and you could have said then "He just bought them." You did not. Instead you said "I need to ask him." You, my friend are blowing smoke and saying look in the mirror over there, not at what I'm doing. Sorry, it doesn't fly.

The point still stands that Apple will not intentionally sell an unlocked iPhone 6 as you claimed.

69 posted on 09/29/2014 8:02:25 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

They were contract-free phones, and yes, they are working just fine in JED. You can believe what you want.


70 posted on 09/30/2014 3:42:35 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino
They were contract-free phones, and yes, they are working just fine in JED. You can believe what you want.

. And he bought them WHEN? You still have NOT address that question.

71 posted on 09/30/2014 7:43:28 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

When they were released in CA. I was with him in OC right before the launch, and he told me which ones he was going to get. I flew back to the East Coast before the iPhone 6 product release. If you are asking the exact day he bought them, I have no idea. All I know is he said he got them, that the T-Mobile ones are unlocked right out of the box, and that they are working fine in Saudi.


72 posted on 10/01/2014 6:09:39 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino; ReignOfError
When they were released in CA. I was with him in OC right before the launch, and he told me which ones he was going to get. I flew back to the East Coast before the iPhone 6 product release. If you are asking the exact day he bought them, I have no idea. All I know is he said he got them, that the T-Mobile ones are unlocked right out of the box, and that they are working fine in Saudi.

You're still dancing, dinodino. There was no different release date in California than in where else in the US. I asked when. . . and you give me squishy answers. Did he stand in line overnight??? OC was one of the Apple Stores where the lines were city blocks long. . . and they sold out of iPhone 6 Plus early in the process at almost every store. As I said, your story sounds like a fabrication to cover your rear end. Had you said, "oh, he got unlocked iPhone 5ses several weeks ago," I'd say, that was do-able. No problem. What YOU claimed has been against Apple's announced iPhone 6 sales policy since the pre-orders.

Apple is now releasing unlocked iPhone 6es for delivery after October 17, as China has finally approved them for sale in China, and they can be pre-ordered in China on October 10th. There is no longer an economic reason to block unlocked iPhone 6 sales.

73 posted on 10/01/2014 5:29:41 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

The one workaround is a contract Verizon phone, which has an unlocked sim slot. Pay the ETF and you technically have an unlocked GSM phone.


74 posted on 10/01/2014 5:46:00 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: MediaMole
The one workaround is a contract Verizon phone, which has an unlocked sim slot. Pay the ETF and you technically have an unlocked GSM phone.

It appears that the T-Mobile model is not hardware locked at all. . . just pull the SIM card and ignore the signed contract. You are only required to have a 44 day obligation... Of course you've paid the full retail for a T-mobile iPhone 6 in the first place, plus connection fee and 44 days connect time.

75 posted on 10/01/2014 8:32:41 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Did you check your mail? I’ve already forwarded you the exact message from my friend explaining which phones he got. You speak with certainty and authority about buying these phones, and you know what? YOU ARE WRONG.


76 posted on 10/01/2014 10:22:16 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: dinodino; ReignOfError
Did you check your mail? I’ve already forwarded you the exact message from my friend explaining which phones he got. You speak with certainty and authority about buying these phones, and you know what? YOU ARE WRONG.

What email is that, Dino? It's not in my Freepmail. Are you claiming to have emailed it to my unposted email address? if so! how did you get it? I still see no proof. . . and your statements made no sense.

77 posted on 10/02/2014 11:23:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

do people want bendy phones??

They used to bend, fold right in half too...


78 posted on 10/02/2014 11:28:19 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

The number of iPhone 6 Plus phones that have been legitimately bent in the wild is still NINE out of now over 20 million sold. 9. That’s a failure rate of 0.000045%. There are thousands of manufacturers that would kill for a failure rate a thousand times higher than that.

And, yes, millions of people are lining up around the world to buy iPhone yes since the reports of iPhone 6 bending. Just today over 2,000,000 iPhone 6 plus were pre-ordered in China. Guess they like “bendy phones.”


79 posted on 10/03/2014 12:38:37 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: GeronL

Bent HTC Evo 1

80 posted on 10/03/2014 12:59:02 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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