Consumer Reports Releases Results of iPhone 6 Stress Test

[DigitalHermit]

Yeah, bend that:

 

I lost track of my 3310 after it got handed down thrice (ca. 2010)...

[Geekazoid]

I disagree. It's carrot.

That's more family friendly . Somebody needs to wash their mouth out with soap I think.

[DigitalHermit]

not exactly a word, but it the three periods that people put after their sentences instead of just one period. 

Just look at DigitalHermit's post above.

 

I guess.... I'm... just part of the statistics...

...

[aom]

I guess.... I'm... just part of the statistics...

...

Yes, but we all are, in the face of the New World Order.

3 periods, 3, 3 sides of a triangle, triangle, Illuminati.

MY GOD! I have cracked the code!

[ComradeHX]

Nope its "..."

Ah, the great condescending mark.

[DigitalHermit]

Ah, the great condescending mark.

 

I don't use it like that...

 

It's just a typing habit that I have...

[Valentyn]

Mac forums also makes you lose brain cells every time you go near it.

Why aren't people using "Bendghazi". Sounds much better than "Bendgate".

 

Ah now, I'm in the gaming and Mac Pro section all the time, there are already folks that have gotten the GTX 970 & 980 to work in the mac pro. Lots of amazingly good info there.

 

Just like here though, it can get flooded with very ignorant people. I mean just look at the second post on this page.

[Lord Baal]

repost.

 

maybe the guy from unbox therapy has freakishly hulking hands

I doubt it, that said I know for a fact I personally can crush with more then 110 pounds of force with a single hand so I'm pretty sure he'd have no problem bending an Iphone with 2 hands.

[Briggsy]

did they heat the phones up first to pocket/charging temps?

[Toddwjp]

what about repeat smaller loads, eg a load if 30 pounds (seriously use metric you morons) but hundreds of times

[Slow N Stupid]

The first iphone 6 bend by unbox therapy was btw kinda fake:ish...

I don't want to go on fake or not since I don't really care if iphone 6 bend or not (happy with S5) but just noticed when watching it over and over with my another friend who is apple fan... and saw few other posts about it on the internet

in the beginning of the video you could see the time on "unbended" iphone 6 and then later on after the bend you could see the time again... and well the time doesn't match up... the after bend time is before the before bend time...

it might not be fake... just some technical glitch and/or editing... but it does make the video loses it's credibility

[Misanthrope]

Interesting. It means that the strength of tight jeans can snap at least 3 or 4 pencils together in half, that can't be good for circulation ladies and hipsters: Please switch to yoga pants instead of skinny jeans.

[Yoinkerman]

Like I put in the other thread, if sitting down with a phone in your pocket exerts enough pressure to bend a phone, they're not being tested strongly enough. They said 55 lbs is enough to break 3 pencils. An 8 year old can do that. Not good enough.

[Techhog]

*drinks*

[Yoinkerman]

SIR PLEASE STOP YOU ARE GOING TO DIE

*drinks*

[Geekazoid]

Like I put in the other thread, if sitting down with a phone in your pocket exerts enough pressure to bend a phone, they're not being tested strongly enough. They said 55 lbs is enough to break 3 pencils. An 8 year old can do that. Not good enough.

Well said mate! Too right!

[Nomelas]

what this test doesn't factor in is the point of pressure. It is only testing the very center of the phone on a complete vertical line. In Lou's test for the iphone 6 it was the point where the power (or volume?) button is, citing it as a weak point in the phone's construction. in the same area, the M8 didn't budge but he did said he heard a crack or creek.

 

130 pounds of pressure or more is very reasonable for the others but you can clearly see that the iphone 6 is structurally weaker than the rest (with the exception of the M8 in the tests above).

 

I wouldn't call either this test or even the test performed by Lou to be scientific at all and IMO, neither should be taken as absolute fact. Maybe this will promote companies to do more vigorous testing before releasing a product.

[Damikiller37]

I think Lew's video is more legitimate than the Consumer Reports one since even though in a perfect scenario with the phone being pressured at the centre with equal amounts of the sides being supported while doing so showing that HTC One M8 is the easiest bend while Lew shows that he couldn't bend it as much as the iPhone with his bear hands seems more of a reasonable test. I would go as far as to say that Consumer Reports and even Lew's videos are not accurate at all since no one said that the phones will always be pressured to bend in the centre and will have equal forces holding each side. I just find it way to hard to believe that Samsung Galaxy Note 3 would be the hardest to bend in a real life scenario over the HTC One M8.

[Sexy Vanilla Freshness]

Repost. Fetching link. https://linustechtips.com/main/index.php?/topic/223066-Consumer-Reports-Releases-Results-of-iPhone-6-Stress-Test Consumer Reports Releases Results of iPhone 6 Stress Test

 

 

repost.

 

maybe the guy from unbox therapy has freakishly hulking hands

 

great contribution to the discussion dickheads, and way to encourage speed over quality this post is much better.

[BallGum]

great contribution to the discussion dickheads, and way to encourage speed over quality this post is much better.

The old post was fine, and had enough details to be considered a post. Therefore this one is a repost, and I'm not obligated to continue the discussion on one.

Great way to encourage other people to repost...

[gwertheim]

http://mashable.com/2014/09/27/consumer-reports-bends-iphone-6-plus/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

 

 

There you go an independent test

[Nomelas]

http://mashable.com/2014/09/27/consumer-reports-bends-iphone-6-plus/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

 

 

There you go an independent test

that's just an article pointing to the same consumer reports test....

[LAwLz]

The first iphone 6 bend by unbox therapy was btw kinda fake:ish...

I don't want to go on fake or not since I don't really care if iphone 6 bend or not (happy with S5) but just noticed when watching it over and over with my another friend who is apple fan... and saw few other posts about it on the internet

in the beginning of the video you could see the time on "unbended" iphone 6 and then later on after the bend you could see the time again... and well the time doesn't match up... the after bend time is before the before bend time...

it might not be fake... just some technical glitch and/or editing... but it does make the video loses it's credibility

It was like that because he recorded it at different times and edited it together. He released an unedited video of him bending a brand new iPhone in the middle of the streets.

 

 

 

Fun fact: Nokia used 3-point bending machines similar to what Consumer Reports used here to torture test phones like that to ensure they would never break under normal and some abnormal use.

No no no you got it the other way around. Instron used the Nokia 3310 to test the durability of their compression test machines.

MKBHD tried to verify this in his latest video and well... You probably know the rest.

(Not actual facts by the way...)

[gwertheim]

that's just an article pointing to the same consumer reports test....

my bad, didn't see the first post of the link

[Keco185]

what this test doesn't factor in is the point of pressure. It is only testing the very center of the phone on a complete vertical line. In Lou's test for the iphone 6 it was the point where the power (or volume?) button is, citing it as a weak point in the phone's construction. in the same area, the M8 didn't budge but he did said he heard a crack or creek.

 

130 pounds of pressure or more is very reasonable for the others but you can clearly see that the iphone 6 is structurally weaker than the rest (with the exception of the M8 in the tests above).

 

I wouldn't call either this test or even the test performed by Lou to be scientific at all and IMO, neither should be taken as absolute fact. Maybe this will promote companies to do more vigorous testing before releasing a product.

That's a good point.  There seem to be a lot of variables to consider when running these tests.  The issue is figuring out how the phone is pressured in a real life scenario.  In real life, the phone is a bit warmer in the pocket (like in Lou's test where his hands are heating it), but the force is also being applied to a larger area than just a point (like Consumer Report's test where they apply the force along the entire width of the phone).