iPhone 6 Plus defect mars experience: Warping and bending under normal pressure (VIDEO)
Alexandra BurlacuThe iPhone 6 Plus may look and feel premium, but it apparently has a big issue with warping and bending when held in a pocket.
Owners of new iPhone 6 Plus smartphones have already started to report some serious warping issues after doing nothing other than holding the device in a pocket, perhaps with tight-fitting pants.
If this comes as a surprise, Venture Beat points out that Apple's last four generations of iPhones also had some serious issues in the first production batch. As it turns out, the new iPhone 6 Plus, which was supposed to be Apple's greatest smartphone innovation, could have the worst defect of the lineup, warping and distorting under normal pressure.
The aluminum unibody design of the new iPhones is sleek, stylish, and it looks and feels good. The larger iPhone 6 Plus drew a lot of interest due to its design, sporting a massive 5.5-inch display but a comfortable form factor with curved edges to complement its thinness and lightness.
On the other hand, aluminum can be quite easy to distort under pressure, and the iPhone 6 Plus has one big disadvantage in this area. The folks over at MacRumors have already had multiple reports from readers on its forums, with a number of users posting cringe-worthy images of their bent iPhones.
As MacRumors reports, one of its forum members posted this photo of his iPhone 6 Plus after keeping the device in his front pants pocket. Another user, meanwhile, posted this image of his friend's bent iPhone 6, which took this shape under similar circumstances. French Apple forum MacBidouille has similar posts showing warped iPhone 6 Plus units, and reports of such issues keep piling up, complete with photos to back up the claims.
As previously mentioned, aluminum is a soft and bendable metal which, combined with the thinness of the iPhone 6 Plus, makes it rather easy to cause some bending even when applying a small amount of pressure. Simply keeping the device in a pocket while sitting down for a longer amount of time (a few hours) can result in warping and distortion.
While this is understandable from a logical point of view, it's not exactly okay to pay a small fortune for a top-notch smartphone only to have it bend like that if you place it in a pocket. Under these circumstances, it remains to be seen whether consumers who planned to purchase a new iPhone 6 Plus will still want to get one.
Apple offered no comment in this regards so far, and it remains unclear how or if the company plans to offer, or at least suggest, a solution for this unfortunate issue.
Either way, after seeing plenty of reports piling up regarding this issue, the folks over at Squarespace did some testing of their own, which you can see in the video below.
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