It was just an observation.

Bendy iPhones? Pages and pages about it.

Bendy S6s? Really not so much.

My view? In both cases, in real world use its nowhere near as big an issue as viral videos of people forcibly bending them might suggest.

Well, that, or you dropping in those figures and concluding that the iPhone is 100x easier to bend.

Well, apart from metal phones, nothing else bends in your pocket.

Until we got to the Edge with that 'curved edge'. Obviously the S6 is fine though both the Edge and Plus are better than the original headline weakest link, that being the iPhone 6.

I'm sure we always knew it was just another Form over Function phone.

But at the big Samsung press event where they announced these phones - we are told Samsung phones don't bend, while having another dig at Apple. The Samsung phone bends AND shatters lol.

Of course there were pages and pages about it!

How can we discuss something that has had zero real world usage yet compared to one that had been out for weeks and was proven to bend? It wasn't viral videos either. Real people did have this happen, but you like to gloss over that fact. The same thing you do when apple have anything wrong or do anything wrong.

Anyway, since there is absolutely nothing to discuss, why don't we come back when the S6 has been out for weeks and see if there are any issues. How does that sound?

Alan is so rabidly anti-Apple he will never admit to that...

So do most people with iPhone 6s have bent phones, because most people keep their phone in their pocket?

If most people's iPhone 6s are bent, I'm very surprised that isn't a huge story, and Apple haven't been forced to do a massive product recall.

No it didn't. It became an big issue when people experienced it for themselves. Apple denied all knowledge about it and refused to do anything instead accusing people of wilfully damaging them.. The viral videos came after with idiots bending them.


Of course i would. Until the phone is out in the wild, in peoples hands, these reports mean absolutely nothing.

Lets see what happens when the phone comes out shall we?

Who says most people? You keep saying this...

We should be able to discuss it quite easily, because these scientific tests are reporting that they phones bend as easily as one another.

There's no way on earth that if this was the other way around the argument would be "there is absolutely nothing discuss". People would be all over it like a proverbial click bait rash.

It pretty much was the viral videos that turned a few anecdotal examples into the huge deal it became.

A bit like when a handful of people complain about people like Jonathan Ross, and then millions get their knickers in a twist after being whipped into a frenzy by the Daily Mail.

Don't most people keep their phones in their pocket?

I have often said on this forum that Samsung completely miss the point with their advertising. If you take the silly ALS challenge and now the bent phone attempts at micky taking (plus many others), it just come back to bite them.

They are desperate to try and look like a premium brand but spend most of their time devaluing it themselves.

It was reported, but it was those videos which led to it being blown out of all proportion.


I guess we'll never know.


Nothing. Apart from the phones being equally easy to bend.


Sure - would you like a wager?

Antennagate, Bendgate, Scratchgate etc etc, someone else it was normally the user was given the blame. (though A T & T got narly all the blame for dropped calls)

So has it really even been "We should be able to discuss it quite EASILY" ?


And BTW, if the Edge cracked, how can we really use that term bend ?
Surely it is a cracking phone, not a bendy phone.

What's your point?

And despite all the OTT hysteria, surprisingly few people had significant issues.


Given how much has been said about so little, that's a resounding yes.

It wasn't blown out of proportion though. It was a problem that somehow happened to this phone and no other phone. Sitting down with a phone even in a tight pocket shouldn't bend it. But it did.

If this is the case with samsung after slagging apple off, then as Nelson Muntz would say..."Ha Ha!!".


You do know. I just told you...


A wager on what? I couldn't care less if it happened or not! I wont own one like i wont own an iphone 6!

You expressed confusion at the suggestion that most people keep their phones in their pockets.

So I was just asking if you agreed with that.

So don't they? I would have thought they did.

The point is that you were saying that the phones get bent for no reason other than being kept in a pocket.

So if most people keep their phone in their pocket, then it should follow that most people's iPhone 6s will be bent.

Is that what you believe to be the case?

If not, then there must be some factor other than simply keeping the phone in a pocket.

We're going to have to disagree then. The amount of coverage it received was huge. If you have any figures on the proportion of users affected by the issue, I'm all ears. Given how many they've sold, even a tiny proportion would be a huge number of users. But after the hysteria died down there hasn't been much about it at all - hence my view that it was blown out of all proportion.

You did, you're right.

A wager on whether or not bent S6s will go on to generate anything like as much hysteria as happened with the iPhone. I'm saying it won't. You seem to be saying you think it will.

Good advice.

Quite obviously, we simply can't have a Crackgate cause we know it is a copycat phone !

Except its not trolling - its a genuine and legitimate observation.

Did you have anything constructive to add?

Wasn't that link aimed at alanwarwic?

Hahahahaha..... Yes I believe it was.
This is an hilarious thread.
I have an iPhone 6. It doesn't bend unless you are a really fat b****** and sit on it.... and then jump up and down.
I have mine in my pocket all the time. The kids regularly stand/sit/jump on it, I occasionally have it in my back pocket and accidentally sit on it getting in the car.
I took it cutting wood the other day in my work jeans back pocket, jumped in the Toyata Hilux with chainsaw and really sat on it hard (not intentionally you understand).
Did it bend? Of course it didn't. This is all a load of bollocks both for Apple and Samsung I suspect.
Dear oh dear, get a life people..

It still looks a false attempt to make out it is as bendy as that other one.
Remember that that CR Bend report, using I think, Apple own test equipment was there to tell us/market how super strong the phones actually were!

These are real easy bends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaQsXJ5NtnA

So will the Edge bend the same, worse or what ?
All we currently have is a machine that was used to prove how strong the iPhone was supposed to be, now being reverse marketed to prove weakness in Samsung.

All a bit bonkers?