Earlier this week it was revealed that if you bend your iPhone 6 Plus, it will bend. This shocking news took the world by storm, but left some people wondering if other phones would also flex under pressure. To answer the question, YouTuber Unbox Therapy attempted to repeat his earlier experiment with iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, HTC One M8, newest Moto X, and Nokia Lumia.
After applying roughly the same force to each of these handsets, he discovered that the iPhone 6 Plus was in fact more flexible than the rest. The Moto X ended up coming out top of the pack, with next to no flexibility at all. The 4.7-inch iPhone 6 was also found to be much less “bendy” than the larger model, though it did get a very small curve with enough force.
You can check out the video of all five phones being tested below:
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Wonderful. Can we stop now?
Yes.
No! This means war! We will not stop until apple acknowledges this issue! Lol
You’re bending it wrong…
Bend a phone as large as the iPhone 6 Plus such as a Galaxy Note 3 too.
The previous post has comments with a video that does just this. The Galaxy is thicker and doesn’t bend as easily.
Are we surprised? Do people need a physics lesson? Make something thinner and longer and you can expect it to be weaker. Then cut holes in it and watch it bend at those points. I bet my iPad mini will bend too… Not going to experiment with it, just use common sense.
it is astonishing to the degree of nonsense people take things sometimes. If I wanted a tough phone, by all means I’d by a Nexus. Oh wait… it weighs 10.5 ounces! and unfortunately there is no warranty by the vendor that it will get a decent OS upgrade!
Huh? The nexus 5 is 4.59 ounces and is the first to receive updates as google releases them. If you have an issue and need to return it under warranty, LG , the manufacturer, processes the request. Not as easy as Apple, but it can be done.
A phone doesn’t need weight to be strong, it just needs a sound structure.
Why is it that you feel the need to knock another product to defend the iPhone?
Having the 6 plus and barely applying pressure it is not as rigid as it should be. As I explained on the list about this yesterday with the Apple logo volume, mute, and power buttons all being in the upper third where the battery ends the phone has to much flex. The logo should be centered like it is on the IPad’s. The iPad mini doesn’t have flex like the 6 plus because the weakness is the shell/ frame is dead center.
Is the reporting overblown, yes. Did Apple make the phone to weak, yes. In surprised it passed the 3 engineering phases Apple uses. Apple should with not had the logo cutout or moved it to the center of the phone like the iPads. A phone shouldn’t bend in your pocket with very little force.
I had a Nokia phone years ago…back then the fashion advice was to not put bulky things in your pocket. You wanted the right bulges – not phone bulges..so to speak.
So, I wore the phone on a belt clip – which was not uncommon, people wore pagers on belt clips.
well this stupid Nokia belt clip, would ride up when I sat down, leaving the phone just barely in place at the top of the belt, and then when I stood up the phone would top over and fall on the floor.
The belt clip, which presumably passed all ‘testing’ did the opposite of what it was supposed to do, instead of holding the phone, it ensured the phone would constantly be on the floor.
I understand the iPhone 6 Plus passed Apple’s engineering tests, that it passed independent testing by warranty vendors – and as an iPhone 6 Plus owner, I know the phone is sturdy and is great.
But, something may very well be going on, because releasing the phone to the public is the ultimate test.
Which is why vendors are supposed to release phones early and often – that is how you perfect a phone, not the way apple does it, keeping it secret and releasing it years late.
This is a classic argument between waterfall design and iterative design. Apple is on the wrong side of this argument.
Anyway, I digress… I think that people wearing the phone in the front pocket, are exerting tremendous pressure on the phone in a way they don’t even notice. If the phone just rides up a bit and gets caught by the top band of the jeans pocket. The person wearing the jean isn’t going to notice, the jean is constantly binding them every day – they consider that normal. But if the top of the pocket vises the top of the phone as they sit down….it’d have to be a sturdy phone to withstand the pressure.
I say, put a butter knife in your pocket, walk around with it for a few days, if you bend it – don’t get the 6 plus.
:) Ok, nobody will do such a ridiculous thing, but anyway, I personally have a six plus and I love it, but I’m also going to clip it, because I’d prefer not to take any chances with a $750 phone.
I guess Apple is for the market of people who are not stupid enough to bend their smartphone.
Where are all the videos showing the 6+ in a CASE being bent? Its pretty clear that the phone needs a case to keep from being bent, which is no big deal considering there is what like 250,000 different cases for each model you can certainly find one to suit your needs. I have two cases on order for my 6+ and they will arrive long before my phone ever does.
Not everyone prefers to use the case. Some people like to enjoy the work and effort apple took to make the phone as much as possible.
They have a video and it still bends in the case, not too much but it is still bent
None of those are as large or as thin as the Plus. The Moto X is very thick. Don’t be dumb.
Very thick? It is curved. I rather pay $500 for it than $750 for a phone that bends in your pocket. Apple is not going to get away with this. They did bumpers for atenagate, idk what they will do for bendagate. A recall?
http://viptest.9to5mac.com/2014/09/26/consumer-reports-iphone-bend-test/
I really hope someone does an empirical test comparing all major models with actual force measurements. I’m not saying iphone will be vindicated, just saying this whole thing needs some actual science.
Looks like Consumer Reports is on the case, thank goodness:
http://youtu.be/3I8FH9uOnHk
Does anyone remember the issue with Samsung and there screens breaking for no reason last year, where NOTHING was done or mentioned in the press like this, which i have to say, is something that you expect with bigger thinner items… Basic physics dictate that…!
http://communityforums.rogers.com/t5/forums/forumtopicpage/board-id/Android/thread-id/19121
The journey to the Moon. The fucking pyramids!!! And here we are… bending phones on purpose.. Really, human race? REALLY?
There are measurable ways to determine the force applied to lead to failure.
But bending a device by hand is not consistent or measurable. It is just showmanship.
Can’t someone do a real test in a lab or machine shop with a large number of samples? Or are all of these just amateur hour endeavors?
Obviously smaller devices are going to require more force to bend, as it operates as a shorter fulcrum. Physics 101.
He says he is pressing the IP6 Plus in the center but, to my eye, he is deliberately pressing off center near the place where the volume button cutout ends. I think he is seeking out the weakest point do get hits for his video. I think anyone looking to buy the 6 Plus can evaluate it themselves and decide. I do not trust this person.
I call foul – all of the pictures I’ve seen are bent just as in this video – outward towards the screen. I have never seen ANYONE put their phones in a front or back pocket with the screen facing outward. That is a sure recipe for a disaster if something bangs against your leg or backside, or especially if you sit on it. I smell something very fishy here.
I do it. I try not too, but I don’t always remember.
Who’s switch to moto x?
I wonder if the camera sticking out could encourage a bend? Since the phone will not lay flat on a table. Honestly I was watching the video for the iPhone again and the camera sticking out really bothers me. Especially when they talk about the continuous seamless, smooth surface of the phone. It’s not.
you guys don’t know why this phone easily is bending. unfortunately body structure is not frame body rather than monocoque body. there is no frame support inside of new iphone unlikely Samsung Galaxy. apple must fix this problem. otherwise people will throw it, change to other android phones. I am sure.
5S is prettier than 6. Ive is getting old, his designs lack the luster they once had, that ray of light they once emitted which drove me closer to envy. Now all I see is a canvas void of any emotion, like a size zero Model gracing her weightless body down the Run Way as her heels cast a scream so deep it echoes “UGLY.. Ugly.. ugly”.
Thank God you don’t design iPhones.
An odd thing to thank our creator for, you are a being void of any sense of priority. Thank the lord for the hands you type those underwhelming responses with, not what other people are not doing.
It is very simple, people who use iPhone 6 plus will treat it carefully and will not put it in tight jeans. Thats it. No body will use it as a shield. In normal uses it will not bend for most of the customers. However, I have never been a fan of large screen phones like 6 plus.
I like it. :-)
http://digilibstikom.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/kursus-animasi-di-surabaya/
I love jokes about it :-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuSktzFx9B4
http://www.muj-ipad.cz/sites/images/bender-neohnutelna-text.jpg
I see a cheesy Galaxy Note 4 commercial in the works where this would be the highlight as to why the Note 4 would be better in 3 2 1.
Next: 60″ TV panel.
Maybe now Apple will stop this idiotic race to be the thinnest.
As others have said, this is pretty much basic physics or engineering. Make a beam shorter and longer and it will bend easier.
Hopefully, the next time they redesign the iPhone case it will actually get a little thicker. Which means, that future iPhones will not be thinner, but they will start to get better and better battery life.
Yeah!
That would be amazing, but somehow I bet then will get thinner still…
Oops! I meant thinner and longer.
No offense but this is the stupidest post I have ever seen… Of course the iPhone 6 plus is more bendy than the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5s… The new iPhones i Wouldn’t be surprised if more bendable than the 5s with the whole new design and the plus is a lot bigger so of course its more bendable… Gosh this is common sense…
The test should be more scientific. please include other big phones as well.
If you look at something that really happens, like on those cars where people had spontaneous ‘sudden acceleration’
You find that the issue was that the accelerator was physically located in the place where on other cars, a brake pedal might be, and that drivers, in a panic situation, were actually pressing on the accelerator when they claimed to be pressing on the brake.
And they would not admit it, and will go to their graves not admitting it.
It really, truly doesn’t matter, that someone claims they were just wearing loose pants and the phone bent magically.
I assure you that did not happen, magic isn’t real, things don’t happen spontaneously.
This is not to excuse apple, or that the bending wasn’t real. I”m sure the bending is real, for a few people, and ultimately its Apple’s fault that the phone can’t withstand the tremendous pressure they put on the phone – but they did do that, and the question is to find out when and how, and obviously the anecdotal stories form the users don’t supply that, and instead appeal to beliefs in magic and wondrous things occurring spontaneously without explanation.
Someone needs to invent an app for that…. but a case pressure sensor inside the phone, and have it blurt out when its being squeezed.
Obviously the simpler answer is to just re-enforce the case, but if one wanted to make a study of phone pressures while riding in people’s pants – one could do that.
The problem with Apple is they are slow and plodding….that’s why everyone is so freaked out, who wants to wait another full year to get a solution?
OMG! You mean if you actually try really hard to bust your phone, you might actually bust your phone. Here’s an idea, try treating your expensive electronics with a little care and not like some retarded orangutan.
“The 4.7-inch iPhone 6 was also found to be much less “bendy” than the larger model, though it did get a very small curve with enough force.”, that’s enough for me. Not buy it…