Bent iPhone 6: Video comparison with Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in the bending test … – PC Games Hardware

The messages on in your pocket bent copies of the iPhone 6 Plus have made on the internet in the past few days a lot of attention and discussion. Allegations at Apple for a bad design to fake allegations the entire range has been processed. Two new videos now compare the iPhone 6 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in the # Bentgate bending test.

The iPhone 6 Plus can actually bend fotosubline_inner lasting at least a lot of pressure. [Source: Unbox Therapy] It is still not clear how widespread the problem of bent iPhone 6 Plus actually is and whether it is a manufacturing defect of some specimens or else a design flaw, in which the aluminum housing around the volume buttons is just too weak to withstand pressure. In some discussions is the affected even assumed that it was a fake, which could so not happen in reality, if you wear your smartphone simply in your pocket.

On YouTube Unbox Therapy has published a video in which an iPhone 6 Plus is subjected to a test that probably the forces that occur in a trouser pocket, surpasses by far. Nevertheless turns out that the iPhone 6 Plus actually yields of the notified body and the body is then bent permanently. After the release, there were many claims of other YouTube users, but please also undergo another smartphone this test, so that a meaningful comparison is possible.

This needs corresponded Unbox Therapy then with a new video and a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which is known to have plastic instead of aluminum. Again, the smartphone during the test is visible bent, but the material ensures that the Galaxy Note 3 then returns to its old form. Only the frame seems to be easily moved. In practice, the Grade 3 should thus probably be significantly verbiegungssicherer than the iPhone 6 Plus, if it has to be necessarily carried in the pocket. You can find both videos below this message. Apple itself has not yet responded to the reports #Bentgate.