Title: Bendgate forever: turns out aluminum is still bendable Post by: HCK on November 09, 2014, 03:00:21 am Bendgate forever: turns out aluminum is still bendable
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Harken, if you will, all the way back to late September when iPhone 6 Pluses were bending left and right and causing pundits to theorize that there was a scandal brewing along the lines of Watergate.</p><p> Or, actually, you don’t have to harken, you can just read the Boy Genius Report, which is still going full-Bendgate (tip o’ the antlers to Rob Wensing (https://twitter.com/RobWensing/status/529739157791584258) for the links).</p><p> On Halloween Day, BGR’s Chris Smith asked “Has Apple quietly fixed its iPhone 6 Plus ‘Bendgate’ problem?” (http://bgr.com/2014/10/31/iphone-6-plus-bendgate-design-fix/) Now, before you wonder how Apple could get people to stop sitting on their phones, there’s an easy answer: Make them run so hot people don’t want to put them in their pockets. Problem solved. But what Smith was actually “reporting” was a Reddit piece by a d00d who thought he saw a red thing inside his iPhone 6 Plus.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2844520/bendgate-forever.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Bendgate forever: turns out aluminum is still bendable (http://www.macworld.com/article/2844520/bendgate-forever.html#tk.rss_all) |