#Bendgate: It’s Not Just 9 Complaints, More iPhone Owners Post Photos On Instagram Of Bent Devices

Apple claimed that there were only 9 complaints of bending iPhone 6s, but it seems there are more than 9 based on recent postings in Instagram. There were seven recent postings complete with pictures in the photo sharing site.

Business Insider reports that Instagram user greesha experienced a bent phone after the device was place inside greesha's front pocket. It took just 10 minutes for the iPhone 6 inside luckleft8's pocket to curve, while soumyadeep95 noted the phone all bend in the same place, which is near the volume button.

One more proof of the weak aluminium case was offered by edch2020, while birdiusmaximus, besides posting the image in Instagram, returned the iPhone 6 to Apple Store and presumably got a replacement. Meanwhile, leonliangs posted not only the image of the bent phone but also his face, while the phone of jnathan's friend bent without placing it inside the back pocket.

Forbes contributor JV Chamary agreed that while #Bendgate may have been overblown by media, it doesn't mean Apple's PR nightmares are over yet.

Chamary pushed for the conduct of a scientific and independent testing similar to what Consumer Report did. He pointed out that despite Apple's assurance that there were only 9 reported cases of phone bending, many people don't trust the Cupertino-based tech giant's confidence on its product reliability.

He attributed this to Apple's antennagate woes for its iPhone 4 which lost its network signal when phone owners held their units by the lower left corner, and the response of Steve Jobs to the problem was telling one complainant: "Just avoid holding it that way."

Chamary noted that the problem with the text flexure strength using Instron machines is that the method only "measures behavior of materials subjected to simple beam loading." He said the best way to find how a phone bends under normal use is the 4-point flexural test, although Chamary concedes that the findings by Consumer Report and Lewis Hilsenteger using a 3-point flexural test is also informative.

He said that while it is too early to conclude, based on independent studies, that #bendgate doesn't exist, he cited finding of a survey among reddit users that it's more of an issue of quality control than actual design defect.

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