iPhone 6 and 6 plus may be bent if they are carried in the trousers' pockets for a long time, many customers have complained about the issue.
A number of users across various social media sites and blogs have reported, pictured and even posted videos that their phones have become warped after they sat or bent down with them in their front and rear trouser pockets.
The reports come just after an insurance company claimed that the new iPhones are the most robust ever though its tests did not include bending.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus chassis is milled from a solid piece of aluminium alloy whose composition is secret. The weak area of the phone appears to be around the volume buttons, where the frame is at its thinnest and creates a fulcrum point around which the phone bends. Surprisingly, the screen does not break when the phone bends though it does if the phone is then bent back to a flat profile.
One disgruntled user posted a photo to the Apple forum MacRumors, showing that the iPhone 6 Plus – the larger of the two version, with a 5.5-inch display – was no longer straight after spending a day in the front pocket of his trousers.
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Another user posted a picture of his friend’s iPhone, which had curved to the shape of his leg, put it in his front pocket and it was like this when he took it out after getting out of the car, he wrote.
Apple is not the first to have the problem of a large-screened metal-framed smartphone bending under use. Sony Xperia Z1, which had a 5inch screen and a metal frame, saw users complaining that they bent in pockets, while Samsung Galaxy S4 had similar complaints, as did Blackberry Q10 users.
