[adorno]

ALL Consumer Reports tests should be taken with a LARGE truckload of salt.

I did notice that the iPHone 6 was tested the same way as the rest of the group that was tested. But, that's a false test.

The tests were done with the pressure being applied on the same spot, meaning, towards the center of each. But, the iPhone 6 problem is about how it bends at where the buttons are, which is higher up than the middle of the phone. The phones bend in people's pockets, and if the test was going to be done properly, then, people's pockets should have been used for proper testing.

I'm pretty sure that, no other phone would bend like the iPHone 6+.

[Swordmaker]

I'm pretty sure that, no other phone would bend like the iPHone 6+.

No, Adorno, you're wrong. There are many reports of other large format PHABLET type phones bending and/or breaking when undue stress has been applied to them. Many such photographs of damaged phablets from pre-iPhone 6 bend gate have been posted showing them. It is not just the iPhone 6 plus. . . nor is it a false test. They even posted photos of an iPhone 4s bent in the same manner. The falseness came in the original YouTube video where there were some games played with timelines.

For the past year iPad Airs have been on the market. They are made of the same material with the same curved sides as the iPhone 6 Plus and they about the same in thickness. Ask yourself this question. Where are all the reports of bent iPad Airs where people have fallen asleep and rolled on them? I've done it myself. Or sat on them? Ditto. Or stepped on them? I've avoided doing that. Broken screens, yes. Not mine, thank goodness. Bent? Nope. No large numbers of complaints. The buttons reach the same distance from the top as the iPhone 6, giving a far longer moment of lever to the bottom, but we have no reports in large numbers of bent iPads. The distance across the width of the iPad Air is about the same as the phone. Then the iPad Mini. . . even thinner. WHERE are all the bent iPad minis???? Apple has years of experience building thin devices. There should have been tons of bent devices before this. Why not?