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Hey XDA'rs,
So as of a few days ago, I was the happy owner of a Nexus 6 on Sprint, I even tested a VZW nano for a day.

I took it out with the family and we went to go eat at a sushi restaurant. The chairs were made of a faux-leather plastic with about 1 inches of padding. My Nexus 6 was in my back pocket and I heard a "crack". I immediately thought that the chair going to give way or something and I jumped up. I reached in my pocket and felt a sharp pain to have my hand emerge with a small laceration to my thumb. When I pulled out my phone, it had the top corner of the phone and snapped at the plastic antenna point and the body had contorted backwards at some weakpoint in the device.

As you look at the pictures, note that there are no scratches, abrasions, or any other signs of abuse or mishandling of the device. I am 5 foot 10 inches tall and weigh about 155 pounds so it is not plausible that excessive force from my weight was a factor.

This is a thread to make everyone aware that there is a potentially catastrophic structural weak point where the plastic antenna meets the metal rim. Don't care to hear if you sit down with your phone or not or hear lectures on how physics works.

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

Central, LA

Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 12/4/14 at 12:52 pm to whodatfan

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. Don't care to hear if you sit down with your phone or not or hear lectures on how physics works.

Well, the guy clearly needs a lecture on something. It would take some effort to do that to this phone, believe me. I mean, he didn't so much bend the phone. He fricking broke it, and the bent frame just seems to be a result of the total breakage rather than the cause.

And of course, don't shove a phablet in your back pocket and sit on it.

This post was edited on 12/4/14 at 12:55 pm

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 12/4/14 at 12:56 pm to whodatfan

The drive for thinner, lighter phones has resulted in fairly fragile products. They are engineered, to certain degree, for drops, but cannot be reinforced for the weight of a full grown man to sit on the display and not be expected to crack it.

There is no one to blame except the owner who sat on the phone, here, IMHO.

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Posted by Korkstand

Member since Nov 2003

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Posted on 12/4/14 at 1:01 pm to ILikeLSUToo

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And of course, don't shove a phablet in your back pocket and sit on it.

I will never understand why so many people keep their phones in their back pockets. Or at the very least why they aren't in the habit of taking it out before sitting down.

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Posted by whodatfan

Member since Mar 2008

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Posted on 12/4/14 at 1:01 pm to ILikeLSUToo