In what’s already being dubbed ‘bend gate’, owners of Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus are reporting that their new smartphones are being bent out of shape – just from being carried in their pockets, U.K daily The Independent reported on Wednesday.
The report mentions the the tech giant manufacturer Apple has yet to respond to the issue, but numerous pictures of unintentionally curved iPhones have been circulating on Twitter and other websites.
The report mentions one intrepid YouTube user who has sacrificed his newly bought handset to prove that the iPhone 6 Plus does indeed bend.
The main reason behind the issue is said to be the fact that since the 6 Plus is so much larger and thinner than previous phones, that the aluminum case doesn’t have enough strength proportional to its length.
Guardian added that the trend was first picked up by specialist site MacRumours, who reported one reader’s tale of bending his iPhone 6 Plus after putting it in his front pocket to attend a wedding.
“The 6 Plus was about 18 hours in my pocket while sitting mosty,” the report quoted the irate Apple customer.
“As I lay it on the coffee table and sat down on the couch to relax from the drive (yes, sitting again), I saw the reflection of the window in the iPhones slightly distorted.”
The report also scoffed at Apple for offering customers a ‘do-it-yourself’ option to make their phones curved. It added, however, that practically any smartphone will bend enough pressure is applied ( as was the case with Sony’s Xperia Z1 warping earlier this year), but unfortunately for Apple, the prestige (and price) of their devices means any fault is taken far more seriously than those of their rivals’.
Apple had encountered a similar situation back in 2010 with iPhone 4 where the flawed antenna in the smart phones led to dropped calls when owners held them in a certain way. Apple offered compensation to the affected customers by issuing free cases.
Apple had reported of selling a record 10 million units of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the first week of the launch.