iPhone 6 Plus Bending: Other Smartphones Put Through the Bendgate Test With Mixed Results
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By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 25 September 2014 12:34 IST
As
the iPhone 6 Plus 'bendgate' video went viral on the Web,
several videos of other phones being put through the bend test appeared
on the Internet.
Some users of the iPhone 6 Plus had reported
that the phone gets bent when kept in their front pockets for a
significant duration. Unbox Therapy followed up its video of a iPhone 6
Plus 'bend test'
with one where it tried to bend the iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy
Note 3, HTC One M8 Motorola Moto X (Gen 2) and the Nokia Lumia 1020.
In
the 9-minute video, all the phones are put through similar bend tests,
where a person places both thumbs at the back of the phone and tries to
pull it back from both sides. In the video, none of the other phones
appeared to bend as much as the iPhone 6 Plus. However, the iPhone 6
appeared to bend a little near the volume button and creaking sounds
were heard too.
Unbox Therapy put the HTC One M8 and the Lumia
1020 through the same test and both came through relatively unscathed.
In both cases, creaking sounds were heard and the screen lifted a
little, but it popped back into place when the pressure was released. In
the video, the Moto X (Gen 2) appeared to be the sturdiest. It made no
creaking noises and didn't bend under pressure. Unlike the new iPhone
devices, the iPhone 5s did not bend in the video.
In another Unbox
Therapy video, the
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 went through the bend test and the video showed
that the phone doesn't bend. In this video, the creator says that if
your iPhone 6 Plus is bent, don't try to bend it back to shape. The
creator of the video tried this and claimed that the screen cracked when
he did so.
A few hours later, other people posted videos of
Samsung Galaxy S5 being tested for bending and it appeared that the
phone did not bend.
Cult
of Mac had posted
several pictures of various users reporting that their smartphones
(Android, Apple, Windows Phone and BlackBerry) were bent after they kept
those in their front pockets. This suggests that the bending problem
isn't limited to Apple's new phones.
Apple hadn't commented on
the issue and bent smartphones were not being replaced for free at the
time of filing this report. What matters of course is if the device is
bending due to undue pressure, in regular use cases, or just by itself,
and this still remains unclear with the iPhone 6 Plus.
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