Following last week’s launch of Apple’s latest offering, the iPhone 6 Plus, users of the sleek device have started voicing their displeasure over the reports that the phone bends when put in pockets.
The iPhone 6 Plus users have flooded online forums and social media platform, Twitter with the hash tags #BendGate and #Bendghazi.
Many pictures showing bent iPhone 6 plus phablets have poured into the internet with users voicing their discontent as the phone bends to the shape of the leg once put in pockets.
Bloody hipsters and there skinny jeans…#bendgate http://t.co/SePfJsaNK1
— Oli Firth (@oliverfirth) September 23, 2014
Oups, l'iPhone 6 se déforme dans la poche ! http://t.co/szFfovaHB7 pic.twitter.com/Zru9uozhMU
— Florian Paulmier (@FlorianP123) September 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/nelsoncardoz/status/514471154057097216
The iPhone 6 reportedly bends as a result of the phone’s large, thin aluminium body, a metal that is malleable, especially when warm.
Lewis Hilstenger of Unbox therapy decided to carry out an experiment on #BendGate and posted the video on YouTube.
