iPhone 6 Plus Reportedly Bends In Tight Pockets

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Apple's new iPhone 6 Plus may bend substantially if put into a tight pocket for a prolonged period of time, some users claim.

A record 10-million units of it and the smaller iPhone 6 were sold within two days of the Friday launch, but some users have complained that their device is more fragile than they expected.

One user, Nelson Cardoz, posted a photograph of a misshapen phone on Twitter with the message: "The iPhone 6 could bend in your pocket! Haha, love you Apple."

He told Sky News that when he contacted Apple about the problem they offered to replace his device.

A YouTube channel called Unbox Therapy uploaded a video of a man using a tight grip to bend the phone out of shape.

The bend appears to occur just below the side-mounted volume buttons.

However, website Cult Of Mac said some users reported similar complaints about the iPhone 5s, as well as Sony, Samsung, BlackBerry and HTC smartphones.

On Monday Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus launch was its "best ever", and had "shattered" all previous sales records.

The iPhone 6 Plus is Apple's largest ever phone, and features a 5.5-inch screen. The increased size and reduced thickness may be responsible for the bending.



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TravitorPosted:

There only two types of people who possess a bent iPhone. Either guys with emo jeans stuffing their phone in their back pocket, or hot girls with tight shorts. FACT

YuiPosted:

I saw this yesterday, it is kinda funny. You can bend it with your fingers to, you just will have a lot of trouble bending it back.

TitanFallPosted:

AE86
Ortho
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Ortho
AE86
Potion All previous iPhones have been fragile, i don't know why people are expecting the new ones to as strong as a brick.


"I dont know why i paid $1000 for a phone that sucks" is all i hear.

How do you know he paid $1000? $300 with a contract kiddo.
Go ride android


Still a **** phone, kiddo. Go ride Crapple some more


A bad phone that can sell hundreds of millions kiddo. I'm assuming you ride those cheap androids?


"Cheap Androids" oh so i see you like to pay the same amount of money for a less powerful phone, thats cool, thats your business, but i'd rather not be stupid.


So having a different taste in Phones makes people stupid? right, well I guess we now know who is immature. I shouldn't be shocked most of the users on this website are either

XeDragHDPosted:

Haha, android FTW xD
I'm not about to spend $900+ on a phone.

R3voPosted:

I still plan on buying a iphone 6 plus, I will just make sure to grab an oterbox.

EnVPosted:

I was planning to get this phone but now I heard this.... no way in hell! this has to be fixed.

Dezz wow, well no more skinny jeans i guess.. xD

haha you're 100% right there!

OrthoPosted:

AE86
Ortho
AE86
Ortho
Urf
Ortho
AE86
Potion All previous iPhones have been fragile, i don't know why people are expecting the new ones to as strong as a brick.


"I dont know why i paid $1000 for a phone that sucks" is all i hear.

How do you know he paid $1000? $300 with a contract kiddo.
Go ride android


Still a **** phone, kiddo. Go ride Crapple some more


A bad phone that can sell hundreds of millions kiddo. I'm assuming you ride those cheap androids?


"Cheap Androids" oh so i see you like to pay the same amount of money for a less powerful phone, thats cool, thats your business, but i'd rather not be stupid.


I payed $200 for an apple phone which contains hundreds of dollars worth of music and books from my apple account.
You're right, it's none of your business.


*With a contract, *From your apple account, notice how i was talking about how powerful it was compared to most android and you try to boast about your "Hundreds of dollars on your apple account, you're just an iSheep how buys iphones because of the apple logo, have fun with your 2012 hardware.


I'm not even close to boasting about money spent on my apple account, you must be slow to think that. I was linking that to my purchase of the phone(derp). And who cares about hardware to the extent of only brining it up online lmao? I'm not going to walk into my internship and brag to patients about my L33T android hardware omg wowz.

The amount of people that care for power in a phone is low and pointless unless you're involved with the tech field some how.

If you dislike apple so much why are you bothering with it's news articles? Nothing better to do? lol

AE86Posted:

Ortho
AE86
Ortho
Urf
Ortho
AE86
Potion All previous iPhones have been fragile, i don't know why people are expecting the new ones to as strong as a brick.


"I dont know why i paid $1000 for a phone that sucks" is all i hear.

How do you know he paid $1000? $300 with a contract kiddo.
Go ride android


Still a **** phone, kiddo. Go ride Crapple some more


A bad phone that can sell hundreds of millions kiddo. I'm assuming you ride those cheap androids?


"Cheap Androids" oh so i see you like to pay the same amount of money for a less powerful phone, thats cool, thats your business, but i'd rather not be stupid.


I payed $200 for an apple phone which contains hundreds of dollars worth of music and books from my apple account.
You're right, it's none of your business.


*With a contract, *From your apple account, notice how i was talking about how powerful it was compared to most android and you try to boast about your "Hundreds of dollars on your apple account, you're just an iSheep how buys iphones because of the apple logo, have fun with your 2012 hardware.

OrthoPosted:

AE86
Ortho
Urf
Ortho
AE86
Potion All previous iPhones have been fragile, i don't know why people are expecting the new ones to as strong as a brick.


"I dont know why i paid $1000 for a phone that sucks" is all i hear.

How do you know he paid $1000? $300 with a contract kiddo.
Go ride android


Still a **** phone, kiddo. Go ride Crapple some more


A bad phone that can sell hundreds of millions kiddo. I'm assuming you ride those cheap androids?


"Cheap Androids" oh so i see you like to pay the same amount of money for a less powerful phone, thats cool, thats your business, but i'd rather not be stupid.


I payed $200 for an apple phone which contains hundreds of dollars worth of music and books from my apple account.
You're right, it's none of your business.

GHOSTIZABOSSPosted:

Tell I hope to not experience this problem, as I do have the iPhone 6. Luckily I usually wear basketball shorts or shorts that don't have tight pockets.

But I do see this being a huge problem. GG apple, GG.

Your lucky i had my IPhone for less then 2 days and long story short I don't buy iPhone anymore


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