The YouTuber who set the world ablaze by bending the iPhone 6 Plus is back.
Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy has a new video out in which he tries to bend the regular iPhone 6 like the Plus. Those who are actually worried about their iPhone’s bendability will be glad to see that the 6 holds its shape much better than its larger sibling. And you’d basically need some kind of power tool to bend the iPhone 5s.
Hilsenteger also tries bending some iPhone competitors, and the most durable smartphone might surprise you.
We’re into day two of #Bendgate, and countless mainstream news outlets around the world have started covering Hilsenteger’s original video. It’s like Antennagate all over again, expect worse because we are seriously questioning why phones will bend under pressure.
Hilsenteger himself has been giving interviews to these news outlets all day, cementing his name in the history books as the man who bent the iPhone with his bare hands.
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16 responses to “iPhone 6 isn’t as bendy as Plus-sized sibling”
I blame inbreeding for those users too dumb to know how to treat their stuff. The YouTuber falls into the same category.
It’s called a pressure test… Something Apple should have done before production. That’s what you do… you stress test the design and engineering. It would appear that this guy did what Spoke didn’t do.
People have noticed bent phones from being in their FRONT pocket. That crazy! Even the guy in the video makes Menton that his phone was being from front pocket use prior to the bend test.
Spell correct is a B-atch…but you get my point…
That’s beyond asinine and simply not factual. Do you own an iPhone Plus? I do. The iPhone is as rigid as it needs to be. And no, I won’t be sitting on it, just as I don’t use a hair dryer in the shower.
You probably have forgotten that trolls did the same thing with a 4″ iPhone 5 when they intentionally destroyed those — Apple went on to sell hundreds of millions with nary a murmur.
The internet contains enough idiocy — please don’t make your own contribution.
This may be a black-eye for Apple but this is a call to action for case makers to take advantage of this opportunity.
Otterbox and other case makers can start constructing cases with intensely durable, unbendable and unbreakable girders to sustain the integrity of the phone.
But here’s what I think will happen for sure: Apple will take back any and all bent 6 Plus devices and if they haven’t done so already create a case or offer a case with the aforementioned unbendable rails inside for free.
It’s safe to assume that Apple put the iPhone 6 development on cruise control while they focused on the Watch and Pay. Considering Apple’s been working with the same form factor from the iPhone 4 to the 5s they didn’t consider that going big and thin would have these nasty results.
At any rate, this is yet another blemish on Apple’s record.
The way Samsung pumps out commercials there’s almost every chance that we’ll see a “wall hugger”-style commercial pop-up any day now.
even before
It also breaks if you hit it with a hammer. Duh.
Cool I didn’t know the iPhone had a curved glass screen
FUD
Let’s apply the same forces to some competitor’s phone in a scientific way.
We could start a new specifications category, how many lb-ft of force does it take to bend phone model/brand X vs others models/brandXs.
And just how certain can you be of the pocket bending report?
I just love the hysteria that accompanies Apple products. Who remembers the utterly scandalous and total fail that with the dreaded original iPod Nano scratches?
I had one, yeah it got scratches on it, and yeah, so did my boss’s standard iPod in equal measure at the same time.
All sorts of chicken house clucking about the Nano and none about the standard iPod
Why?
Imagine Steve Jobs testing a phone himself before release and discovering it bends. He’d go apoplectic and fire whomever was responsible. Just temper the aluminum.
This is so retarded. Who treats their phone like that. Your car will bend if you apply this kind of force on its hood. It’s a phone, use it like one. Don’t treat it like a rocket.
Those idiot that sit on their phone that what they get cause I been using my iPhone 6 + since it came out in my front pocket and haven’t had a issue or maybe Samsung is trying to sobbotage Apple iPhone with this publicity I don’t remeber Samsung ever selling million phone in 3 day
Geeeeez, get off it! Anyone who wants a large, thin, light cell phone that won’t bend under any circumstance—including having it in a back pocket while sitting on a bar stool and chatting up some guy or gal—should look for a phone made out of iron. Iron won’t bend. Or maybe stainless steel, or solid aluminum. Or how about solid diamond.
Sorry, but thin and light means thin material and light material, and it’s gonna bend if enough pressure is applied. Kids (and other immature people) who keep these things in their back pockets, or intentionally subject them to bending torture tests should be sent to “time out.” It’s not Apple’s fault. They’re simply delivering what people want.
Stop sitting on your phones you fat b@$#@&ds!