re: New iPhone Bending

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quote: Samsung instructed or hired people to buy the new iPhones and intentionally break them to cause this stupid warrantless trend. Just like their stupid commercials, this is just part of their propaganda to fight Apple.



Paranoid and delusional much?

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I honestly wouldn't put it past them. Samsung seems obsessed with one-upping Apple.

LG, HTC and Motorolla combined haven't put out even close to the amount of anti-Apple advertising as Samsung has.

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I honestly wouldn't put it past them. Samsung seems obsessed with one-upping Apple.

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As fricked up and delusional as it sounds, there's no reason for it not to be true. I imagine it's common practice for companies to reverse-engineer their competitors' products if for nothing but the purpose of finding faults and ghosting them in their ads.

So, what's to stop them from discovering, "hey this iPhone bends if I try to bend it!" and then innocently "spreading the word"? It's been established that any time a problem is found with the iPhone in particular, it becomes national news. Regardless of how minimal or ridiculous that the problem is, obviously the extensive coverage is going to influence some buyers. Not every iPhone user is a sheep (gasp). A lot of them are like me, early adopters who have been sufficiently satisfied with iPhones but have grown more willing to try something new.

It was probably found out by early adopters, IMO. A few unfortunate souls were just not used to the size, put it in too tight a pocket or leaned against something and put way too much stress on the device. 5.5+" devices are pretty easy to use everyday, but it does take a bit of getting used to these large phones and you may have to alter the way you use/carry it versus the smaller iPhones.

When the Dell Streak came out, it was found to have a cracking issue. A large part of the blame has to go to design of the phone. The issue with the device was that the screen was bolted down to a rigid frame, and it had a metal/plastic hybrid construction that did not take drops very well at all, even fairly short ones. The screen was secured in such a way that way too much energy from a drop was directed to the screen itself. A good bit of the issue was user error as well, b/c people were not used to handling such a large device. If you increase the surface area and decrease thickness, it becomes more fragile. Shocker, I know, but many of the users were not thinking this way and had little regard when handling it. I only give a bit of a pass on construction, b/c it was the first phablet, and I found that if you were mindful enough to treat it like a tablet, you handled it more carefully and had fewer mishandles.

Now with the 6+, Apple elected not to use any kind of reinforcing sub-frame and went with all aluminum, and this is the cause of the bending. Some will say this is a design flaw, and they may be correct but I suspect it may be by design. One thing these big phones don't do well with is drops, and something needs to dissipate that energy. I believe Apple purposely did not use a magnesium sub-frame so that the 6+ could absorb shock better to make the phone more durable. The problem is that when the aluminum is bent too far, it isn't going to be bending back. I may be completely wrong and it may be a design flaw, but I am interested how it will handle drop tests vs. other large devices.

tl;dr

People aren't used to big, thin devices and screwed them up accidentally. It is an isolated incident and now that it is in the public eye, folks will be more mindful of the issue and take better care of their phones.

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Not every iPhone user is a sheep (gasp). A lot of them are like me, early adopters who have been sufficiently satisfied with iPhones but have grown more willing to try something new.

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I like to think that there are more of us than the idiot fanboys

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If he did exaggerate his findings, wow.... this guy cost Apple 22 Bil.

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cuz he's the only one doing a bend test right?

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cuz he's the only one doing a bend test right?

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He was the one that every media story cited except for the few media outlets with integrity that ran their own tests (finding the phones hard to bend)

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He was the one that every media story cited except for the few media outlets with integrity that ran their own tests

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LINK

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Lewis @UnboxTherapy · 8m

@justinhub2003 @lishengggg don’t worry going to bend another for you today, sucks to waste these - seems the only way though.

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Lewis @UnboxTherapy · 9m

OK way to many press inquires for these bogus claims, I’ve bent a few of these to verify - guess I’m going to have to do one more today…

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Lewis @UnboxTherapy · 21m

@justinhub2003 got an extra 6 plus sitting here if you guys want me to bend it one angle, one take - let’s do it.

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Lewis @UnboxTherapy · 22m

@justinhub2003 overhead shot was overexposed was when screen reflected off lights, saw the clip, had to re-shoot - conclusion was the same.

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Lewis @UnboxTherapy · 26m

@justinhub2003 so you do want me to bend another, I’ve bent multiple. How bout a one take, one angle? geez people are desperate

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Users have blamed the iPhone 6 Plus bending non-scandal on dozens of things, from the weak aluminum case to the crushing force of their own butts. But there's a very simple, structural reason the 6 Plus bends, and thankfully, someone has explained it on Imgur with moment diagrams and everything.

A user by the name of alleras4 took to Imgur to speculate that the body of the 6 Plus has nothing to do with the bending—and their argument actually makes a lot of sense. He or she argues that the bending really has to do with a poorly-designed reinforcement inside the phone and behind the volume buttons. If you take a look at the reinforcements that line the phone leading up to the buttons, you'll see there's plenty of stable inserts to protect the body. But by the volume buttons, that reinforcement ends with a screw, leaving the body prone to stress.

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From gizmodo.

Design fail

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It's still way overblown

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