A Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Smartphone
A visitor holds a new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge smartphone after its presentation at the Unpacked 2014 Episode 2 event ahead of the IFA Electronics show in Berlin, September 3, 2014. Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke
A visitor holds a new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge smartphone after its presentation at the Unpacked 2014 Episode 2 event ahead of the IFA Electronics show in Berlin, September 3, 2014. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (GERMANY - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

If Cupertino-based Apple has its #bendgate woes, rival Samsung has its #gapgate problem. Like Apple, only a few units of Samsung's phablet, the Galaxy Note 4, has a thin gap between the screen and the walls of the case.

The Seoul-based tech giant promised to fix the problem in which two pieces of paper or business card could fit into the gap, making the device vulnerable to the entry of dust and liquid, reports iTToday in South Korea.

Samsung just released the phablet in South Korea where all of the whole 30,000 initial delivery was sold out. The company is aware of the problem and would fix it, although Samsung assured buyers that the gap does not affected the functionality and quality of the Galaxy Note 4.

The gap notwithstanding, Samsung made the Galaxy Note 4 undergo a bend test, a reference to the viral video that the new flagship device of its competitor, the iPhone 6, bends when placed inside the pants pocket.

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The bend test simulates a 200-pound person seating on the Galaxy Note 4 several hundred times. Here is the video of the Galaxy Note 4 bend test.

YouTube/Samsung Tomorrow

The viral video, which has more than 700,000 hits in 6 days, utilises the 3-point bend test simulating a fat butt sitting on the Samsung device. And like what happened to iPhone 6, when news of #bendgate spread, some young people on their own went to Apple stores and tried bending the flagship, mindless of the damage they could do, the same treatment is being done now on the Galaxy Note 4.

Besides the bend test, Samsung also released two weeks ago a video that says it pioneered in the manufacture of large screen phones in 2011 that the iPhone 6 imitated three years later. This is that video, which has almost 22 million hits in 2 weeks.

YouTube/Samsung Mobile USA