Yes, in September of 2014, few days after the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets went on sale, many grumpy owners of the new handsets contacted Apple that their new handset bent in their trouser pockets. I don't know for sure if Apple took their grumblings seriously because it only received 9 complaints out of millions of people who bought the smartphones, at the time. But it turned sour afterwards. It gave birth to the infamous #Bend Gate'' a new slang for Apple devices with bending issues.
Things got even worse when a guy named Lewis Hilsenteger created and uploaded a video to YouTube, which show him bending his new iPhone 6 Plus handset. That singular act garnered 45 million views and everybody followed suit. Every which way you turned people were bending their iPhone 6 and recording their silly acts on camera. Some even went as far as walking into an Apple store, picked one of the iPhone 6 handsets on display and bent it. Asked why they did it they replied, ''we just wanted to find out if the iPhone 6 actually bends.'' Crazy right?
Anyone who has common sense will understand that any smartphone or tablet made out of aluminum metal will bend when you apply a lot of force to it. For heaven's sake! Aluminum is a relatively soft metal and is fairly ductile. And you know the iPhone is made of aluminum, so why should it come as a surprise or get shocked when you try to bend it and it bends?
Even if you say it's a design flaw, why not put your iPhone 6 in your shirt pocket or get a case for your phone to avoid any bending issue? Rather than make a big deal out of it.
By SquareTrade accounts, both the Galaxy S6 Edge and iPhone 6 Plus bent at a force of 110lb(50kg). Although Samsung denounced their claim by saying it carried out same test on the S6 Edge and the results they got was quite different. And that the handset won't bend under normal use.
Whether these smartphones bend at this point should not be a yardstick for measuring a smartphone's quality or be an issue at all. Since it would take enough pressure to do that. Why would any sane human bend a perfectly built product all in the name of making a statement? What statement, if I may ask? To mislead consumers and hurt sales of these devices? That's lame! If you don't like a product give it to someone else who needs it and karma might even smile at you. If you walk in to a store, buys a smartphone and sits in your living, and bends it on camera, you are nothing more than a clown.