{"id":10417,"date":"2014-09-27T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T09:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/consumer_reports_confirms_iphone_6_bendgate_overblown.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:32:00","slug":"consumer-reports-confirms-iphone-6-bendgate-overblown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/consumer-reports-confirms-iphone-6-bendgate-overblown.html","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports Confirms iPhone 6 Bendgate Overblown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\/js\/BrightcoveExperiences.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nbrightcove.createExperiences();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- End of Brightcove Player --><br \/>Consumer Reports used a three-point flexural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/news\/2014\/09\/consumer-reports-tests-iphone-6-bendgate\/index.htm\">test<\/a> to determine how much force different large devices could take before bending. In short, here are the results:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td><strong>Deformation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Case separation<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>HTC One (M8)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>70 pounds<\/td>\n<td>90 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Apple iPhone 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>70 pounds<\/td>\n<td>100 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Apple iPhone 6 Plus<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>90 pounds<\/td>\n<td>110 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>LG G3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>130 pounds<\/td>\n<td>130 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Apple iPhone 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>130 pounds<\/td>\n<td>150 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Samsung Galaxy Note 3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>150 pounds<\/td>\n<td>150 pounds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Here is an important point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reports stated that Apple applies 25 kilograms (slightly more than 55 pounds) of force to an iPhone 6 Plus to test flex. What does 55 pounds mean in context? Using our Instron, we found that it&#8217;s approximately the force required to break three pencils.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Basically, as I have been <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/the-myth-of-the-bendable-iphone-6-plus.html\">saying all along<\/a>, bendgate is a tremendous amount of BS. There may be some defective phones out there but the ones I tested were not bending, despite extreme pressure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/CRO_Electronics_Bent_Phones_Scattered_09-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2014\/09\/CRO_Electronics_Bent_Phones_Scattered_09-14-thumb-500x364-14049.png\" alt=\"CRO_Electronics_Bent_Phones_Scattered_09-14.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, now we resolved that&#8230; Next issue please. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"smiley-wink\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/TinyMCE\/lib\/jscripts\/tiny_mce\/plugins\/emotions\/img\/smiley-wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"smiley-wink\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fconsumer-reports-bend-test-pits-iphone-6-plus-against-t-1639756245&#038;h=7AQHon2xF\">Gizmodo<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kerrygarrison?fref=ufi\">Kerry Garrison<\/a> &#038; Nik Poljak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Reports used a three-point flexural test to determine how much force different large devices could take before bending. In short, here are the results: &nbsp; Deformation Case separation HTC One (M8) 70 pounds 90 pounds Apple iPhone 6 70 pounds 100 pounds Apple iPhone 6 Plus 90 pounds 110 pounds LG G3 130 pounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,158,172,196,173,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}