I can't tell you how excited I am going to be trying to support jitter on an enterprise wireless network on an SSID that was not designed for VOIP... Apple doesn't even support OKC.

9/23/2014 1:15:47 PM

Anyone manage to bend their iPhone yet?

http://gizmodo.com/iphone-plus-owners-are-bending-their-phones-by-just-sit-1638115760

9/23/2014 3:38:37 PM

Is this the breaking point for America's obesity epidemic?

9/23/2014 6:54:14 PM

the whole #bendgate fiasco is gaining attention - i assume at this point apple has to at least respond in some way shape or form - whether it's showing us videos of the note 4 bending more easily next to the 6 plus or whatever else they decide

9/23/2014 7:11:04 PM

There's been plenty of 5.5" phones released over the last couple of years. None of them have bent and stayed bent.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/23/bent-iphone-6-plus-problem/

^Note 3 bend test:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0&feature=youtu.be

Holds up pretty swell. Making a phone out of metal/aluminium never seemed like the best idea.

[Edited on September 23, 2014 at 8:00 PM. Reason : s]

9/23/2014 7:41:02 PM

will it blend?

9/23/2014 10:23:02 PM

Pretty bad design flaw. Worse than the antennae thing.

9/23/2014 10:39:58 PM

I went to IOS 8 and I don't notice hardly a damn thing, except now I can't choose when to I cloud update?!

9/24/2014 12:09:31 AM

Black and Silver I Phone 5S ATT-400 or best offer. Not a scratch. Never even took the new charger, cord, headphones out of the case so of course that all comes with it. Will throw in additional crap I bought for it.

Also a VZW I Phone 4S WHITE cracked screen and all but works, 100 bucks unlocked. Will also give about 50 I phone 4S cords to go along with it that can't be used but by this generation now.

9/24/2014 12:36:11 AM

My HTC One M8 is metal and doesn't bend

9/24/2014 7:36:44 AM

So where's the best place to sell my 5? I'm guessing CL or whatever to a regular person

9/24/2014 10:40:43 AM

my buddy just got $190 for his BUSTED ass 5 on eBay.

[Edited on September 24, 2014 at 11:33 AM. Reason : 190. ]

9/24/2014 11:32:28 AM

Anyone able to download ios8 via iTunes? I don't have enough room on my phone so I have to use iTunes but it fails every time.

9/24/2014 1:03:49 PM

what fails? the download or the update? I didn't have any issues.

9/24/2014 1:06:59 PM

I listed mine on Craiglist and in minutes people were messaging willing to buy for 500-600 and do pay pal. Still seems sketchy to me they haven't even seen a picture, but everyone says pay pal is legit. Is it? I feel the way these people are talking and the numbers they are texting me from it has to be some type of scam on me?

9/24/2014 1:10:18 PM

paypal is legit. but it seems like there are tons of scams for high profile items like apple products..

read this. just did a quick GS "selling iphone on craigslist"
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1014444

if you sale in CL i would do it to someone local and in cash.

9/24/2014 3:47:02 PM

^^^ the download

9/24/2014 4:07:23 PM

Download the ipsw for your device manually from the links at the bottom of this page, and then hold down shift (or option on a Mac) when you hit the update button in iTunes to select the ipsw you downloaded.

9/24/2014 4:18:24 PM

may have to do more with the fact that Apple pulled the 8.0.1 update due to a ton of issues with it.

[Edited on September 24, 2014 at 4:54 PM. Reason : based on when the poster was trying to download.]

9/24/2014 4:54:41 PM

Figured I would wait till about mid october to get the new phone, let apple fix all the little bugs.

9/24/2014 5:10:39 PM

I was actually trying to do it for the past few days, I just assumed the servers were being crushed

9/24/2014 5:11:24 PM

ITT

I learned I can make l crucifixes wilhout unicode

I'm Krallum and I approved lhis message.

9/24/2014 5:33:40 PM

got my 6 plus today and love it so far - wife gets my 5S and her 5 went on craigslist tonight

9/24/2014 11:42:13 PM

Thanks for posting this...

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paypal is legit. but it seems like there are tons of scams for high profile items like apple products..

read this. just did a quick GS "selling iphone on craigslist"
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1014444

if you sale in CL i would do it to someone local and in cash.



I knew it was sketchy when not one person would answer the phone. What the hell is wrong with people?!

9/25/2014 12:10:48 AM

how stupid can people be? MICROWAVING YOUR FUCKING PHONE?

we really need to rethink some things on this planet...

9/25/2014 1:00:52 PM

damn 23 million views in two days

9/25/2014 4:34:04 PM

all the haters don't understand that flexibility is a feature...it's the FUTURE

9/25/2014 5:47:45 PM

Held one. It does feel kind of cheap and flimsy compared to a Galaxy Note 3 or S5.

9/25/2014 6:17:21 PM

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-start-replacing-bent-iphones-083251944.html

apple will replace

9/25/2014 6:24:04 PM

Quote :

"paypal is legit"

PayPal is legit. That doesn't mean somebody can't send you a payment, get your phone, then dispute the payment and get their money back. Straight cash homey.

Quote :

"It does feel kind of cheap and flimsy compared to a Galaxy Note 3 or S5"

And Samsungs feel kind of cheap and flimsy compared to a Maxx. But there are always cases if you'd rather use the features of your phone than be a fashion snob.

lol http://i.imgur.com/YmBXYQR.png

[Edited on September 25, 2014 at 9:28 PM. Reason : add another imgur]

9/25/2014 9:21:53 PM

Yyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh...

Talking about it taking "extreme" circumstances to bend the new iPhone, when you can easily bend it using your bare hands or by simply sitting on it is a PR disaster. And then they want to show you the "testing lab"? What the fuck. Apple is not gonna be able to "gorilla grip" themselves out of this one, so they need to fucking own up to it and stop their denials that it's a problem and quit being so snobbish and demeaning. If I can bend your phone with my bare hands, then it doesn't matter how much "testing" you put it through, because clearly it was not sufficient.

9/26/2014 12:26:43 AM

CONTROVERSY

http://www.businessinsider.com/bendgate-truthers-claim-to-have-found-the-real-story-behind-the-flexible-iphone-6-2014-9

another:

9/26/2014 11:06:36 AM

^^ there's no evidence you can "easily bend it with your bare hands." The guy in the video is putting a decent amount of force to bend the phone (and theres really only 1 guy making these videos so far-- hardly representative of a widespread problem).

I think I can bend most portable electronics with my bare hands, and i'm not a strong person.

THere's a lot of people talking about the 1 or 2 videos/photos of bending iPhones, but there's not a lot of evidence it's a widespread problem.

9/26/2014 11:10:31 AM

i wasn't aware that so many people expect to be able to sit on a cell phone. ppl be trippin

9/26/2014 11:21:11 AM

Quote :

"I think I can bend most portable electronics with my bare hands, and i'm not a strong person."

So is the idea he/they are faking when "trying" to bend the non-iPhone6 plus devices?

Regardless I'd like to see videos of the phones being bent in people's pockets...that's a more accurate use case.

[Edited on September 26, 2014 at 11:31 AM. Reason : I actually bent/broke an Iphone 3G in my front pocket once]

9/26/2014 11:30:36 AM

^ in the videos where he starts from a new phone, he barely is able to get them to bend.

There's one video where the phone starts of pre-bent, where he gets some more bending, but overall, the level of bending he's achieving is about what i'd expect if someone were intentionally trying to break their phone.

I will say they, the Moto-X is pretty impressively strong, and I personally would like to see more devices like the Nextels of yore that could be tossed out a window and not break, but after initially being sucked into the bending iPhones problem, only to watch a lot of videos and realize how much effort it takes to bend a new phone, and that its only this 1 guy making the videos, this seem like a fabricated issue to me.

It's like when the iPad Airs first came out, people started taking thermal images to prove the screen had uncomfortable hotspots... and then nothing ever came of this.

10 million phones+ sold, we should be seeing way more pics of actual users bending their phones in the real world-- and this simply doesn't exist at this point.

9/26/2014 11:45:43 AM

It's because there is an internal support that's attached to a weak soot on the phone, it bends at that weak spot. It's a design flaw specific to the phone

http://imgur.com/a/FBegH

[Edited on September 26, 2014 at 1:49 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2014 1:43:05 PM

Quote :

"10 million phones+ sold, we should be seeing way more pics of actual users bending their phones in the real world-- and this simply doesn't exist at this point."

They've already sold 10 million iPhone 6 plus phones? That's the only model under fire...

Quote :

"There's one video where the phone starts of pre-bent, where he gets some more bending, but overall, the level of bending he's achieving is about what i'd expect if someone were intentionally trying to break their phone."

Again, so you think he's not really trying to bend the other phones he tries and fails to bend?

Quote :

"and that its only this 1 guy making the videos"

There's two examples posted ITT, and I'm sure there are others out there as well.

9/26/2014 2:54:24 PM

moron exposed?

9/26/2014 3:07:49 PM

At the end of the day I'd rather have a durable flexible plastic phone than one made out of a weak bendable metal like aluminium that bends and stays bent. I put a case on it anyway.

9/26/2014 3:19:55 PM

Quote :

"Again, so you think he's not really trying to bend the other phones he tries and fails to bend? "

I'm saying he's trying, and succeeding, in bending phones, using a considerable amount of force.
He was able to bend most of the phones. The iPhone bent the most, but 1 phone had a cracked screen from the initial bend.

Quote :

"They've already sold 10 million iPhone 6 plus phones? That's the only model under fire... ... There's two examples posted ITT, and I'm sure there are others out there as well. "

You're sure there are bend victims or phone-bending-videos? So far, there's more videos of people trying to bend phones and put them on youtube (and i've only seen videos made by 1 guy-- now 2), than any evidence that peoples' phones are bending in normal use.

Apple has 9 reports, the Internet has 1 person in the wild, there's no mass bending pandemic of iPhones that can be verified at this point. Will an iPhone bend? Sure, but so will most phones if you try to bend them.

Is there evidence of an iPhone bending problem at this point? Absolutely not, just the same videos being rehashed in different ways of people trying to bend phones.

And based on the videos of people bending the phones, you could avoid any possibility of bending by putting the phones face-in to your pocket, since the videos only bend the phones outwards.

This is a trumped up issue because people like to target Apple.

9/26/2014 3:25:53 PM

Quote :

"He was able to bend most of the phones"

False.

And no, I'm not going to count ones that visibly bent then snapped back to normal with no damage

Quote :

"The iPhone [6 plus] bent the most,"

FTFY. We're just talking about the Plus at this point.

Quote :

"but 1 phone had a cracked screen from the initial bend."

Which one? I haven't watched them all...

Quote :

"and i've only seen videos made by 1 guy-- now 2), than any "

This stuff is funny:

9/26/2014 3:26:55 PM

I will saying having played with the iPhone 6+ and the Galaxy Note 3. The Galaxy Note 3 feels like a much more durable device.

9/26/2014 4:08:06 PM

^^ wow, another video of a guy successfully bending a phone, after trying to bend a phone. Color me shocked...

Show me actual users with bent phones.

9/26/2014 4:20:35 PM

Quote :

"At the end of the day I'd rather have a durable flexible plastic phone than one made out of a weak bendable metal like aluminium that bends and stays bent. I put a case on it anyway. "

I'd rather just have a durable metal phone, so I bought an HTC One

9/26/2014 5:40:01 PM

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/4chan-iphone-6-bend-prank/?tw=dd

lots of idiots ITT

Btw, I'm loving my 6 Plus. Took a few days but it's a wonderful device.

9/26/2014 9:17:47 PM

^^
You should probably get the iPhone in that case...

Quote :

"The iPhone 6 Plus, the more robust of the new iPhones in our testing, started to deform when we reached 90 pounds of force, and came apart with 110 pounds of force. With those numbers, it slightly outperformed the HTC One"

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/09/consumer-reports-tests-iphone-6-bendgate/index.htm

Obviously not necessarily conclusive but a far better test than some guy bending phones with their hands.

9/26/2014 10:17:10 PM

it doesn't bend in a pocket, a pocket is a distributed load and not a point load

9/26/2014 10:21:33 PM

And a guy pressing with his thumbs is not a point load...?

Lol, you people...

The HTC is the bendiest of the phones. If you want a durable phone get the Samsung.

But based on the lack of actual reports of bent phones, Apple's statement they having heard reports, the apparent force required by the hacks bending phones by hands, and now consumer reports using a machine to simulate hand bending, it's starting to be pretty clear bend gate is mostly hype.

It's okay to admit you got sucked into the hype, but there's no actual evidence yet of a major bend issue with the iPhones.

9/26/2014 10:36:53 PM

the iphones are bending in front pockets

9/26/2014 10:56:03 PM