VIDEO – The largest model of the Apple smartphone, the iPhone 6 Plus can be deformed when you sit on it, noticed the first customers. Tests had found stronger than its predecessors.
The iPhone 6 is no exception to the rule. Like its predecessors, the new Apple smartphone is at the center of a controversy just days after its release. In summer 2010, the iPhone 4 had been faced with the scandal of the # AntennaGate linked to poor reception when the phone was held at the bottom. Two years later, the iPhone 5 was heckled by the #MapsGate, referring to the new application from Apple mapping riddled with error. This time the iPhone 6 is immersed in the #BendGate.
It all started when customers were surprised to discover their smartphone bent (“bend” in English), after sitting above and have emerged from the pocket of their pants. Several examples were reported Monday and Tuesday, and one case was reported in France by the specialized site MacBidouille. The case has gained momentum in the late afternoon, after the release of a video on YouTube (see above), viewed 2.5 million times since. It shows a hurry More iPhone 6 on each side, which frankly is found folded.
If the iPhone 6 is the thinnest iPhone, it would also be more susceptible to twisting than its predecessors, thicker and ringed with metal. The fragile area is projected on the side of the breakthrough by Apple to get the volume buttons area. Now this is where the pressure is when the iPhone is placed in a pocket and you sit on it. This point was not raised by the first tests of crashworthiness published after the release of the iPhone 6 SquareTrade, which specializes in insurance for high-tech products, had hailed the strength of iPhone 6, including one case Drop in a comparison with other iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy S5.
On social networks, discussions on the #BendGate take unexpected turns. Fans and critics of Apple, which are then yet another area of debate is falling over on the resistance of aluminum, the material used for the shell of the iPhone. Examples of great Android smartphones is unearthed, like the Sony Xperia Z1, which also folded under the weight of their owner, without nobody ever worried. It contends that the Galaxy Note 3, with its plastic shell, the same test unscathed folding.
When asked, Apple has so far not commented on the matter. When AntennaGate in 2010, Steve Jobs held a press conference and said the crisis iPhone 4 was no more affected by the antenna problems than other smartphones. Apple had nevertheless made a gesture of goodwill by providing protection for the iPhone (the “bumper”) to its customers. For now, the iPhone 6 More owners must go through a paid service. Steve Jobs would surely have told them to “buy new pants,” joked a journalist on Twitter New York Times .
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