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Consumer Reports puts ‘bendgate’ to bed, finds iPhone 6 easier to bend than Plus model

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Consumer Reports released a new video today taking on claims of overly-flexible iPhones that have appeared online recently. Apple noted that only a handful of complaints have come in and gave journalists a look at its testing procedures. Regardless of Cupertino’s claims, Consumer Reports kept its promise to conduct testing that was a bit more scientific in nature than previous YouTube videos.

To address these claims, several different phones were tested under up to 150 pounds of pressure to see when each model would stop “snapping back” to its original shape. The devices tested were the iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5, HTC One M8, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and LG G3.

Overall, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus weren’t the sturdiest phones tested, though they also weren’t the weakest. That title goes to the One M8, which buckled under only 70 pounds of pressure. Surprising—and contrary to recent reports—the iPhone 6 Plus managed to hold until the 90 pound mark, putting it 20 pounds ahead of the smaller model and making it the 4th strongest phone tested (out of 6, mind you).

Taking the top prize for durability was the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which only began to deform under 150 pounds of pressure. The iPhone 5 tied for  second place when it lost its shape at the 130 pound mark, on par with the LG G3.

Consumer Reports also tested how much force was needed to cause the display to actually separate from the case, finding that an additional 20-30 pounds was needed for most phones, with only the G3 and Note 3 requiring no additional weight to separate.

So while we can from these results that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are by no means the most durable phones on the market, they’re not as likely to take any permanent damage from your pockets or bare hands as recent reports would have you believe.

You can watch the full test in the video below.

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Comments

  1. PMZanetti - 10 years ago

    What a surprise… The whole thing was a crock of shit designed by amateur media to generate ad revenue.

    • standardpull - 10 years ago

      More likely, this whole episode was designed by Samsungs marketing arm in hopes of selling more lousy Samdung product. They were fioiled this time but will likely keep trying to keep putting down Apple in hope that people will be fooled into buying Damsungs garbage product.

      • Lousy? Weren’t they the most durable phone of those tested?

      • Lousy for a whole array of reasons – Google OS, malware, lower quality materials…

      • standardpull - 10 years ago

        I guess you’re right. A Samsung phone makes for a better fulcrum. Not a great fulcrum, just a better one. But sadly for Samdung, that’s what it does best.

      • samuelsnay - 10 years ago

        How were they foiled? The word spread to the mainstream media, to the point that Apple has become a laughing stock.

        A local sports station here in Detroit was talking about this shit yesterday, as well as making fun of how buggy iOS8 is.

        I hate to say it, but Apple has really slipped in quality lately (like the iOS8 update that made iPhones stop working as phones…).

        Jobs would have lopped heads off. Cook seems content with mediocrity (like keeping the guy who screwed up Apple Maps so he could go on to screw up iOS 8.0.1).

        Surround yourself with C players, get C results.

      • Nycko Heimberg - 10 years ago

        Why to accuse Samsung?
        Samsung has a more resistant smartphone for 1 year.
        Samsung kept the edge in metal and the back plastic, why?
        Samsung have a réal R&D. No masquerade.
        Not to forget, the iPhone have only 0.7mm. metal
        Samsung with Galaxy Alpha and Note 4, 5mm metal on all the circumference. Not easy to bend….

      • Edison Wrzosek - 10 years ago

        And as expected, the moronic Scamsung defenders arrive right on queue to defend their masters, the SK chaebol. GTFO.

      • “A local sports station here in Detroit was talking about this shit yesterday, as well as making fun of how buggy iOS8 is.”

        “Surround yourself with C players, get C results.”

        Says a guy from Detroit…

    • Richard Shin (@Yuneshik) - 10 years ago

      Despite the fact that this experiment is flawed, right? Because have you seen any iPhones bent in the middle? I clearly haven’t. The structural weak-point is near the volume rockers, not in the dead center. People need to stop being so gullible, believing any quasi-experiment out there.

      • Chance Diego - 9 years ago

        I believe you’re correct. I believe the reports for bending have all originated around the volume controls. I don’t believe the Consumer Reports have accurately addressed the problem. If someone is putting their phone in a front pocket any structural stress would follow the path of least resistance, which would be around the volume controls.

        I would be interested in seeing a simulation of that.

    • tech0004 - 9 years ago

      Kinda wonder obviously there are a lot more than 9 bent iPhone 6 well at Apple are desperately trying to keep a lid on it.

      Seriously check out the photos of bent I phones I stopped counting at 20 and they are arriving daily.

      Just Google photos of bent iPhone 6

      Or if you have an Apple what’s your search called again ???? Sure the info will be there

      What no one has surprise has come up with on purchasing your new iPhone .
      Ask the retailer before you hand over your cash can I pop into my front / back pocket and sit down 5 tines ?

      I want to know the reaction of the retailer.
      Will they support your request.

      If not to me that says they don’t want take the risk.
      So why should you !!!
      With that I wouldn’t buy ###

  2. zacachu - 10 years ago

    really tired of hearing about this sensationalized crap. Had a AT&T rep try to talk me out of upgrading my iPhone 6 Plus 16gb to a 64gb and to get a regular sized one because “they’re like totally bending”….

    • Niels (@vbq31797) - 10 years ago

      I hope you treat it with care, still doesn’t look good to me..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3Ds6uf0Yg&list=UUsTcErHg8oDvUnTzoqsYeNw

      • standardpull - 10 years ago

        One of the 9 known bent iPhones. Keep trying Samsung – it’s your only prayer!

      • 89p13 - 10 years ago

        PLEASE – Keep buying those iPhones – my stock loves you for it!

        Bend them, sell them, bury then, run over them with your car, stick them where the sun don’t shine – I don’t care – just Keep Buying Them!

        My retirement funds thank YOU for your purchase(s) – no matter who is paying for them and your posts. ;)

      • Edison Wrzosek - 10 years ago

        This fucking Lou guy just wanted his 5 seconds of fame, and is now mooching it for as much mileage as he can get. I’d punch the asshole out if I ever met him, go figure he goes to Toronto, lots of douches out there that will agree with him.

      • thejuanald - 10 years ago

        Yeah, Edison, I’m sure you would. You don’t look like the biggest vagina I’ve ever seen or anything.

  3. distressedcactus - 10 years ago

    Consumer Reports, you make me happy.

    • Raido Orumets - 10 years ago

      Consumer Reports test was not done correctly or how to say… the main testing point was wrong. They should not test breaking point, the should test bending point. If phones bends even 0.5 to 1 mm and stays bent after that action – the phone is easily bendable. If phone is even 1mm bended it is ruin.

      • Cun Con - 10 years ago

        Did you even read? They tested every 10 lbs..duh

    • Richard Shin (@Yuneshik) - 10 years ago

      They tested the center. How many iPhone 6 have you seen bent in the center? None. In fact, it is known that the weak point is on the volume rockers. Not to mention, there is an image floating around of the insides on the iPhone 6, where it is pointed out that there is a design flaw near the volume rockers. Flawed experiment.

      • piablo - 10 years ago

        Seriously? Are you this pathetic in all aspects of life or just when it comes to Apple derangement syndrome?

  4. breakingallillusionsx - 10 years ago

    That’s what anyone with commone sense already knew. Media and people thrive for attention.

  5. Maxim∑ (@MCaudebec) - 10 years ago

    Huh? Unbox therapy did another one with the 6 and says it is HARDER to bend, he couldn’t even do it

    • al0963 - 10 years ago

      Hey Maxim IDB brother, how you doing? I knew this was a set-up from the get-go, i am happy now thanks Consumer Report for making my day, my 6 Plus will be on my hands next month! Uuupiiii

    • Dean Har - 10 years ago

      You have to keep in mind that there are many different ways to bend a phone, the guy from Unbox Therapy didn’t use a 3 point test.

      Since real engineers/technicians backed the tests, for now I think we can put the issue to bed though we should still be watchful. It’s great that the warranty will cover any defects for the 1st year, but a phone, especially one priced at $749-$949, should be able to maintain its shape 2-3 years at the very minimum. But for that only time will tell.

      As a side note, I’m glad our faith in unbiased reports from the likes of Consumer Reports (which was absent just yesterday) has been restored. It’s amazing how our opinions change when people judge in our favor.

      • My idea on CR didn’t change.
        The question is that if even the CR says this, then it’s because there is no basis for criticism.

      • Dean Har - 10 years ago

        While I agree that CR isn’t conclusive, how exactly do we know if there’s an issue or not? Apple isn’t exactly the most transparent company.

      • piablo - 10 years ago

        Yeah, you stay vigilant and keep your eyes open for bending iPhones…

  6. 89p13 - 10 years ago

    Was this an “Organized Event” by a competitor . . . One who has already moved their “New Product Introduction Date” up by a month or so, looking to seed and grow doubt in the mind of consumers who would like to get into / back into the Aplle Eco-system?

    Or, just a bunch of bat-shit crazy people seeking attention by starting a “bendgate” controversy for their own reasons?

    I’m still waiting for my Space Gray iPhone 6 Plus with great anticipation and no fear. 😎

    • borntofeel - 10 years ago

      Certainly such an honest company as Samsung would never do this.
      As if they ever manipulated people on the web using falsification. Oh wait…

    • ecruz53 - 10 years ago

      If you follow things you will learn that the first twits of the iphone bending came from a company in great britain. Right before the canadian video appeared. These are facts that the media dont follow or care.
      Name of company, JW London, an ad company. Customers…Samsung!
      Funny, isnt it?

      • rettun1 - 10 years ago

        That’s really interesting, could you post a link with that info? I couldn’t find it online

      • Edison Wrzosek - 10 years ago

        Wow, you have my attention now! As rettun1 said, can you post a link? I’d shove that into the face of ANY IDIOT that brings up bend gate to my face!!!

      • thejuanald - 10 years ago

        And we never landed on the moon!

  7. al0963 - 10 years ago

    Jajajjaa what a surprise and a bunch of M8’s fans saying get the M8 and HTC mocking the iphone in Twitter, i knew it was something done to damage Apple’s success!

  8. Is it just me, or does this test not take into account the stress points just under the 6+’s volume buttons? Also, these numbers mean nothing until someone else corroborates the test…

    • al0963 - 10 years ago

      Ook Nick!!

    • ecruz53 - 10 years ago

      Nicky, did you ask for someone to corroborate the original video? Nope.
      Not very steady are you?
      Why do you people think that you matter? Why do you go out of your way, and you do so dont deny it, to write in Apple forums or articles when it doesnt affects you? It must be hell to live in your insecure life. Jajajajajajajaja!

      • He’s simply asking for a second source. It’s science. He’s not making the rules. And if he only went by the CR video, he’d know that Apple makes two of the three weakest phones on the market. This video didn’t do Apple any favors.

    • standardpull - 10 years ago

      Mechanics 001. Any structure will always fail at its weakest point. So the short answer to your question is: yes. And re-take high school physics. Because clearly you missed the fundamentals.

      • Yeah I doubt testing on the weak point will prove any different. But, I still think they should test it anyway. Surely they all will fail but by how much is what Nick wants to know.

      • kobymac - 10 years ago

        what a load of crock. I think you should take school physics again mate – a structure will not always fail at its weakest point, it all depends on where the force is applied. Fact is this test was balls – the videos of people easily bending these phones near the volume rocker dont lie.

      • thejuanald - 10 years ago

        Wow, talk about a person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. What, did you have to take a science class on the way to your political science degree? You really should stop talking, because no way does something always fail at its weakest point. You’re talking nonsense.

  9. Alejado De Las Puertas - 10 years ago

    It bends more easily when the phone gets hot … when its heated and you have a bimetallic strip, at a certain temperature one of the metals expands more than the other, causing the strip to bend – even by itself – which some people are claiming.

  10. ecruz53 - 10 years ago

    To all androits….get a life kids.
    Enjoy your whatever you love and own or dream to own. No one listen to your rants.
    But think this over kids…..you people need so badly to be reinforced n your tastes that you come here to try to convert. This is not religion. They are just phones children.
    Go home to momma.

    • I think you need a break from the site.

    • herb02135go - 10 years ago

      Wrong.
      The sheep exhibit most of the signs of cult fanaticism.

      • standardpull - 10 years ago

        Apple wins this one but Sammy hasn’t lost the battle yet! Keep the fight up!

      • flaviosuave - 10 years ago

        Every Samsung troll I’ve ever seen calls Apple users “sheep.” It’s almost like you are all…sheep? Get bent and go outside, you sad, lonely loser.

      • 89p13 - 10 years ago

        Says the DroidBoi’s Main Shepard! Post on your own boards, Herb – and stop trying to stir the shit. I’m sure that most of the regular 9 to 5 readers (and posters) know you for the Samesung troll you really are.

        Get a life – and a real phone, while you’re at it!

      • Edison Wrzosek - 10 years ago

        Go fuck yourself you worthless piece of shit troll

      • scumbolt2014 - 10 years ago

        And fandroids have Oeidpus complex. Google it on you cheap phones trolls.

    • feyip - 9 years ago

      Hmm, interesting you say it’s not religion. Remember seeing a show – Secrets of the Superbrands – a few years ago and how “The Apple products are triggering the same bits of [Brooks’] brain as religious imagery triggers in a person of faith.”
      http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-causes-religious-reaction-in-brains-of-fans-say-neuroscientists/
      You’re right, they are just phones. Choose one, choose many, choose none. They’re just tools to express yourself with.

  11. I bought a 6. I like it a lot. Seems pretty durable, but a tad too thin for my tastes. I do feel like it’s no where near as durable as my 4S and this video reaffirms my fears. When your two latest releases are two of the three weakest phones on the market, it’s not a big win for the company. I’ll definitely use a case from now on.

    • airmanchairman - 10 years ago

      That’s precisely the (non-) issue – the thinness of the 6 series handsets, which is almost unprecedented among the latest handsets, and certainly among those handsets tested here.

      Some index needs to be appled to find the ratio of force required for bend/break to the thinness of the device, in order to establish relative durabllity…

  12. herb02135go - 10 years ago

    “Consumer Reports is just trying to get publicity, ” said the sheep.

    • Dean Har - 10 years ago

      I despise Samsung and I know you’re a Samsung troll, but you’re exactly right. Some of these Apple fans are something else. Yesterday Consumer Reports was unreliable because they hate Apple and they’re just trying to get publicity and subscriptions. Now today, their word is final and any further discussion is closed. Jony Ive can tell them in person that the iPhone 6+ really does have a bend issue and provide all the scientific evidence to prove it…. and they’d still call him a liar. It’s fascinating really

      • Still unreliable.
        Thing is: if even CR says this issue is no big deal, then it’s because it’s not.

      • Dean Har - 10 years ago

        A quick read through the comments of this and other websites will show you many/most have the reverse argument: It’s not a big deal because CR says so

        I’m not disagreeing with your personal opinion, I’m just letting you know it’s not consistent with everyone else’s.

      • standardpull - 10 years ago

        Samsung has a ton to lose given the huge success of the iPhone. and so Samsung really are grasping at straws to keep their failing product line in customers hands. Samsung needs to keep this story alive at any cost. As it is one of the few ways Samsung can fool the public into buying their poor product.

      • scumbolt2014 - 10 years ago

        Why don’t you two fagdroids just get a room and rub your pathetic kit kats together.

    • scumbolt2014 - 10 years ago

      Yeah. Because they know when they mention a high profile Apple they will. Not too many folks chomping at the bit for a ScamScum washing machine or refrigerator review douchebag.

  13. Court Kizer - 10 years ago

    Why don’t they put the pressure near the volume rocker cutout where it actually bent in my friends pocket? I’m an apple fan. We didn’t cook it up. It’s bent. He treats his 6 plus phone wonderfully. We’re here in San Francisco, CA. It’s possible it’s just some frames that were slightly bent then forced straight at the factory making the metal week? I know the first phones off the line are rushed to meet demand…

    • standardpull - 10 years ago

      Goodness, ok, um, please consider re-taking high school physics.

      As for your friend, it seems likely that someone purposely destroyed his phone, either for spite or as a joke.

    • airmanchairman - 10 years ago

      That’s very similar to the come-back after Antennagate was discovered to be a feature of all handsets under proper testing – it was said that with the iPhone 4, you could make the signal drop by lightly placing your finger at a particular point in its antenna array, with no need at all to hold the handset in the “Vulcan Death-grip”, and that this was particular to the 4 only.

      Sounds like fraudulent history repeating itself all over.

    • Dean Har - 10 years ago

      We should always consider conspiracies and negligence for the bending, but we shouldn’t automatically assume that’s the case for everyone.

  14. Patrick Choi (@koban4max) - 10 years ago

    Unbox therapy did another one today outside with bunch of people. He had another demo on iPhone 6 plus. What i realized was the CR tried to bend in the middle…when they should have bend it little upward where Unbox therapy placed his thumb.

  15. Nabil Zeidani - 10 years ago

    This is really an optimum iPhone design by Apple. Thin, light and durable. This what makes a difference between good engineers and bad ones. Samsung just added extra thickness and weight and there is no challenge in that.

    • airmanchairman - 10 years ago

      Precisely the reason why this is a non-issue, just like Antennagate – both non-issues are/were simply based on obvious physics, to which all objects of various sizes, hardness and cross-sectional thickness are susceptible.

      Antennagate did not stop the iPhone 4 from becoming the best-selling single model of its era – and made the 4S even better with hindsight. I predict the 6 series will similarly achieve unprecedented runaway success as well, and make the follow-up 6S/6S+ variants even more awesome next year with double the RAM and better graphics chip and camera.

      After a few months of using the butt-ugly bumper case on my iPhone 4, I tired and got rid of it – to this very day (still rocking with iOS7.1.2) I cannot recall a single degraded or dropped call, making me feel like a sap for buying into Antennagate.

      Fool me once, shame on the blog-shites, fool me twice, shame on me. No fear!

  16. Stoli89 (@Stoli89) - 10 years ago

    Congrats on designing a test that applies a uniform force across the entire width of each device. Unfortunately, you failed to perform a more useful test that might reveal apparent stress points in each design. In the case of the iPhone 6+, ifixit.com showed that most of the massive internal components (e.g. battery) and structural reinforcement is NOT located in the area where the button cutouts have reduced the mass of the frame. If the force were applied to this side of the device, as per the Youtube.com video, I think the results would be significantly different. You’ve also presented the test in a way where the picture makes your method’s approach less obvious.

    IMO, you should either disclose this omission or redo the test in a more real world and appropriate manner.

    • Nabil Zeidani - 10 years ago

      Bending a phone intentionally by fingers! Do you call it a scientific test ?the purpose of any test in engineering is to simulate the reality and not to make a test which is really not measurable. As an engineer, I can only accept this test or simlilar approved methods.

      • Stoli89 (@Stoli89) - 10 years ago

        Well, I simply noticed from the ifixit takedown that rigid or semi rigid components (e.g. battery) are present in the center or side of the device opposite the button cutouts (i.e.: area of stress point). This has probably created a situation where non-uniform force, if applied, would result in what we’ve seen in the Youtube video. The CR test applies a uniform force, which can be more effectively distributed by components and structures in the phone (e.g. semi rigid battery). Notice, the non scientific method applies this non-uniform force to the area adjacent the button cutouts. There is clearly less structural and contiguous mass in this area…hence the obvious failure.

        My point was that the test is flawed. It doesn’t adequately reveal critical stress points in any of the devices tested because of its simplistic approach. This is not a real world durability test.

        PS: I’m not a SAMSUNG fanboy…could care less.

    • standardpull - 10 years ago

      Haha, these Samsung guys really want to ignore physics and focus on their own YouTube productions. “The test was wrong! Look as this anonymous kid destroying his new iPhone on video!!!”

      Yeah, right. Some people have been fooled and so Samsung did win. But it is so clear that a kid is ulnit going to destroy his own new smartphone in order to make a 2 minute YouTube video. Obviously this is Samsungs last-gasp marketing tactic.

      Samsung sales have plummeted. They are lashing out in hopes of saving their sales.

  17. António Chumbo - 10 years ago

    Exactly what I expected.

  18. dvinder42 - 10 years ago

    Bendgate is what you get when idiots don’t do science

  19. David Fine (@dfine1966) - 10 years ago

    The only problem with Consumer Reports test is they bent the 6 and 6 Plus in the middle of the phone. That is not where the week point is. It is where the volume buttons are. When a person puts any phone in there pocket(I put mine in my front pocket), when they sit, it won’t bend in the middle of the phone, it will bend near the top/ or bottom depending on how you put the phone in your pocket, if it does have a week point. A real test would be to put the phone in a front pocket(no skinny jeans) and do real world testing. Do it for a few days. Sit down, stand up, bend, etc. Then we will see if it is a real problem. It does sound like, if both phones are in cases, it is less likely to bend.

    • mechanic50 - 10 years ago

      Ok then using your hypothesis, we should find the weak points on the htc, samsung, and all other phones and put the pressure there. Just to be fair I mean really if your going to be fair then all phones should be tested at there weakest points. What a stupid conclusion. The idiot in that video on line that bent the iPhone 6 plus with his thumbs didn’t even have the same phone throughout the video. It was a total lie. Look at the times on the face of the iPhone during bending it. goes from 2:26 to 1:57 in the next look at the phone after it was bent. I don’t know about you but clocks don’t run backwards on my iPhones. This whole bend gate crap is just that crap. I owned the antenna gate iPhone and never had a dropped call once. It was bullshit. So is this.

  20. KW Phua - 10 years ago

    The problem is 6+ is too big and too tight in the pocket. Smaller phone can be easily moved or shifted when force acting on it but not the 6+.

    • thejuanald - 10 years ago

      My Note 3 sits in my front pocket just fine. Oddly enough, it has a bigger screen yet is still smaller than the iphone

      • scumbolt2014 - 10 years ago

        Helps when you have no genitalia I bet.

      • thejuanald - 10 years ago

        Get a load of this guy. Are your genitalia scrunched upwards and to the sides, where they would impact your pockets? That sounds like a horrible disfigurement.

  21. Joey Manansala (@sdjoey) - 10 years ago

    They should put the phones through a fire test. Samsung with its cheap plastic products vs the iPhones. #burngate

    • kobymac - 10 years ago

      because in real life, phones are more often stored in fires rather than pockets.

  22. thejuanald - 10 years ago

    This experiment seems flawed. It’s bending from the center rather than the weak point which is by the volume rocker.

    • Nabil Zeidani - 10 years ago

      In mechanical experiments, when we make a test we make it in that way. The weekest point will then appear during the test. Watch the video again and you will find the weekest point. But all these devices are not designed to be tortured in that way by applying 70 ib. The new iphone will be tough enogh for 99.9999 % of the users.

      • Stoli89 (@Stoli89) - 10 years ago

        You’re not the only “engineer” in the world. The test is too simplistic to reveal critical stress points from application of non-uniform force. It doesn’t effectively address real world durability scenarios nor refute the non-scientific demo on Youtube. Why? Because the Youtube demo applied the force to an area of the device where structural mass (i.e. battery) is absent and the force therefore concentrated in an area (button cutouts) that could not adequately distribute it without failure.

        Let’s try to be objective. The CR method didn’t address this with any of the devices tested.

        It may even present another issue for Apple insofar as suggesting the iPhone 6 is less strong than the iPhone 6+. Should the 6+ prove to be the device with the critical stress point issue, this type of CR PR would make the iPhone 6 “guilty” by association.

      • thejuanald - 10 years ago

        Stoli, don’t bother with this guy. He’s taken an intro mechanical engineering course. I’m a different kind of engineer (MS in Biomedical Engineering) but even I know that the “weekest” point cannot be determined from a stress test like this.

  23. Bruno Fernandes (@Linkb8) - 10 years ago

    I’m sure the phones are fine for most people under normal circumstances. That said, I don’t believe the CR testing methodology simulates any real-world scenario and is therefore not suitable as the only test of this type.

    A typical carry scenario in either front or back pocket will put the majority of stress on either the upper or lower 1/3 to 1/4 of the device, bending forwards or backwards, depending on how the phone was placed in pocket. Not testing for these real-world scenarios would irresponsible. Calling a design robust for use as a mobile phone is premature without this kind of testing in addition to the others, such as torsional stress, pressure-point testing.

    • standardpull - 10 years ago

      Recall that there was a “bendgate” strategy during the iPhone 5 release too. And again it was shown to be a fraud. All of these videos are made outside of the US in hopes that their fakery can avoid the law.

  24. carpetbomberz - 10 years ago

    Reblogged this on Carpet Bomberz Inc. and commented:
    Hats off and kudos to Consumer Reports for getting on this story as soon as they could. Measurement trumps anecdotes any and all days of the week. Here now some data and measurements regarding the bendy iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.

  25. Jebacz Koz (@JebaczKoz) - 10 years ago

    Wszystko zależy od miejsca przyłożenia siły.

  26. selenarichard - 10 years ago

    Wow. Way to twist the story around. “Consumer Reports refutes iphone 6 plus bendgate”?
    See http://bit.ly/1vdj10S

    First off, it wasn’t just the plus that caused the whole “bendgate”.

    Second, Consumer Reports doesn’t refute anything. You do apparently based off the tests that they did, which actually just proves that iPhones are more susceptible to bending than competing phones.

    And the tests show that the iPhone 6 is actually the worst one and not the M8. They both break at the same pressure, but the M8 can bounce back at certain pressures that the iphone 6 can’t.

  27. oneofthenine - 10 years ago

    If any of you guys are 1 of the 9 people with the bent iPhones please do head over to:

    http://oneofthenine.com

    and post a quick pic. We are really close to having all the bent ones in the whole world there already :P

  28. Emma Jones - 10 years ago

    Hey Guys!! Apple iPhone 6 is up for sale. Find sites offering best prices & amazing deals on iPhone 6 & 6 Plus only at freeappleiphone6(dot)com (Just replace the (dot) with the actual . )

  29. rickys1974 - 10 years ago

    While I enjoyed their video on the iPhone 6 plus bendgate.
    I think it’s missing the point. Hopefully not on purpose.
    They were only bending them for 10 seconds and then letting them flex back. But the reports I’ve herard are that they bend when stressed for hours at a time in pants poket.
    As I am wanting to get an iPhone 6 plus when they are available. And I cary my phone in my front jeans pocket I would be interested in seeing the test done again.

    If they could redo the test at 10 and 20 pounds and hold it for 1 hour, then 2 hours and so on to see how long it takes for it to not flex back. That would be more reflective of the reports and real life (as it’s not uncommon to be driving with my phone in my front jeans pocket for many hours).
    The other thing they should do to make it more scientific is test how much force an object the size of the iPhone 6 plus receives in tight jeans when sitting. And use that as the weight they use to hold for icrimental hours at a time.

  30. scumbolt2014 - 10 years ago

    So if you’re a clumsy fat bastard, get a Note 3. It won’t break when you fall in it by mistake while reaching over it for your pizza, candy, coke, fries, and pizzas.

  31. Raido Orumets - 10 years ago

    Consumer Reports test was not done correctly or how to say… the main testing point was wrong. They should not test breaking point, the should test bending point. If phones bends even 0.5 to 1 mm and stays bent after that action – the phone is easily bendable. If phone is even 1mm bended it is ruin.

  32. jerryfromcan - 10 years ago

    A friend of mine works at a steel plant. His best friend is a service manager for a big 3 auto maker. During the recession, steel plant locked out workers and big 3 auto maker had to get their steel from elsewhere. Now 6 years later all cars from big 3 automaker made during that time period that used alternative steel are a massive after sales service/warranty issue for rust, etc.

    Isn’t it possible that Foxconn got some poorly made aluminum? So some, not all, phones have a higher content of x metal or a lower of y and are thus a little more bendy?

    I’ve never in my life seen a bent phone prior to this…

  33. Jasper Yeung - 10 years ago

    well i think the result is no surprise , aluminium is a fairly soft metal, and with that thickness, bending it should not be too difficult , moreover comparing a metal phone to some plastic one, a plastic phone flexes , which lose out some bending force and can revert back to normal state more easily. I think if u want to have a durable phone u can do it by lots of other means , buy a rigid case , or just those common plastic phones.
    using metal to make a phone is because its no more than just a piece of device, it more like a jewellery now , i assume ppl will use them with care like u do with ur other jewellery . It will bend , but it means nothing to me coz i won’t let it bend.

  34. kobymac - 10 years ago

    As someone has already pointed out – this test is a load of wollop. The weak point on the iphone is near the volume keys – this test was done on the middle. Therefore the results dont disprove anything – fact is bend gate is real.

  35. Ben Crompton - 10 years ago

    So the phone bends? So what? The Galaxy S 3 did when my friend had hers. It eventually quit working because of it.

    So buy a case for your phone, which should be done with any high end phone anyway, and STFU about it already.

    I want to see that guy post a video of him bending the 6+ with a lifeproof case on it.

  36. Dan Heller - 10 years ago

    People are so damn dumb. I could easily bend ANY phone out there. The reason the 6’s bend easily is because of how thin they are. If you are a clumsy ox and destroy everything you touch, better just get your self a $20 tracfone.

  37. Tyler (@Tylray) - 10 years ago

    Not sure why everyone is flipping out like this is world breaking news. Acting like a bunch of children over a couple phones used to text, call people, and play games. How very mature.

  38. nathillien - 10 years ago

    The iPhone 6 have a structural defect (a weak spot around the volume button); And this Customer Report test is testing how the phone behaves when the force is applied in the MIDDLE? LOL
    The Unbox Therapy at least shows that there is a weak spot in the new iPhone design and that it can be bent at this point with bare fingers.

    Now, when you think about it – around what point naturally is a bend more likely?
    1. around the middle.
    2. around the weakest point. (*)
    You don’t know? Take a course in physics.
    For the lazy ones I already marked the right answer.

  39. Jason R. Olsen - 10 years ago

    I’m shocked. Actual science proves that the traditional news media and especially the Internet are run more by hype than actual truth!!!

  40. Jeff Landrum - 9 years ago

    Absolutely the BEST video yet on BendGate…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaQsXJ5NtnA

  41. Dustin (@dustinh47) - 9 years ago

    When the phone is exposed to heat (in your pocket) they are more susceptible to stress and bending. The tests done in these video have no such factor and thus is not comparable to real life scenario.

    The reports of Iphones bending in peoples pockets still stands.

  42. tech0004 - 9 years ago

    Before you purchase your iPhone 6 ask the retailerif you can pop into your front / back jean pocket and sit down 5 ttimes ?

    If the retailer says no then obviously they don’t want to take that risk so why should you ???
    My reaction Don’t Buy it ###

  43. andymule - 9 years ago

    Nice fanboy analysis. IPhone 6 tied for weakest phone tested, and you write that it’s not the weakest? I don’t agree with that statement logically. Also, sad to see that the new phone is about half as durable as the 5. That’s what this test says. COME BACK STEVE! RIP Apple in 5 years

    • Mike Beasley - 9 years ago

      If you knew anything about me you’d know I’m anything but a fanboy. The iPhone 6 took an additional 10 pounds of pressure before case separation occurred when compared to the M8. That makes it the second weakest by 10 pounds.

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