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Buzzfeed finally posted their  BEND-GHAZI article with a whole 2 more bend pics, so clearly this is an epidemic.
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Sep 23, 2014 23:43
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Feenix posted:Yeah I'd say anyone who has the impulse to forcefully bend their expensive device is definitely a big problem. If it bends with normal use though that is a problem. (In pockets, etc)
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Sep 23, 2014 23:44
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withak posted:Someone with access to a decent load frame needs to do some flexural strength testing on a selection of jumbophones.
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Sep 23, 2014 23:45
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Someone go to the Apple Store and confirm the bend test?
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Sep 23, 2014 23:47
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Here's a video I made demonstrating a carefully planned iPhone 6+ car mount: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVcSv9TE338
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Sep 23, 2014 23:52
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Samara posted:If it bends with normal use though that is a problem. (In pockets, etc) Yes I was just making a snarky joke.  eriddy posted:Here's a video I made demonstrating a carefully planned iPhone 6+ car mount: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVcSv9TE338 This is excellent. The one thing I felt like I was missing in the display of the iPhone six was two orange rubber strips obstructing my view of the display. Fantastic work! :-) Feenix fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Sep 23, 2014 23:57
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withak posted:Someone with access to a decent load frame needs to do some flexural strength testing on a selection of jumbophones. Consumer reports did a {flat} pressure test on the LG Flex, they might do a bend test on other phablets if the 6+ bending is actually a thing.
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Sep 24, 2014 00:00
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Feenix posted:Yes I was just making a snarky joke. Feenix posted:This is excellent. The one thing I felt like I was missing in the display of the iPhone six was two orange rubber strips obstructing my view of the display. Fantastic work! :-) Perhaps snarky jokes aren't exactly your thing...
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Sep 24, 2014 00:01
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I'm snarking it wrong. In all seriousness, I dictated that last post and realtime text display on dictation is such a game changer. Takes dictating text from a gimmick to an actual useful tool.
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Sep 24, 2014 00:10
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Samara posted:So this is the next big problem huh Missed opportunity to title this video "Will It Bend?"
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Sep 24, 2014 00:39
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iPhone 6 bendgate is going to be a real thing because people don't understand the difference between plastic and metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0 "The Galaxy Note 3 survives the exact same bend test that the iPhone 6 Plus failed. That I did not expect with a plastic build."
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Sep 24, 2014 01:05
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Anyone commenting on the flexural behavior of cell phones should be required to submit relevant coursework in materials science or engineering mechanics.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:16
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Is the 6 bending like the 6+ too? I know someone mentioned in this thread that you shouldn't put a phone in your pocket, but that is asinine. Every phone I ever had has spent most of its nonuse time in my pants pocket. Only when I wear a jacket with an inner pocket I put my phone somewhere else beside my pants pocket.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:20
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nate fisher posted:Is the 6 bending like the 6+ too? I know someone mentioned in this thread that you shouldn't put a phone in your pocket, but that is asinine. Every phone I ever had has spent most of its nonuse time in my pants pocket. Only when I wear a jacket with an inner pocket I put my phone somewhere else beside my pants pocket.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:25
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mango sentinel posted:Buzzfeed finally posted their Called it! How sensationalized is it?
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Good thing I'm one of those insufferable people whose phone is always out and I don't actually interact with the people I'm around. As for the "hey siri" thing: I brought my charger into the kitchen and left my phone plugged in while I prepared and cooked dinner. I would say that the usefulness and practicality of it was pretty piss poor in a real environment. I will add that I was listening to music at a moderate level and I'm sure that interfered in some of the cases. But really the biggest problem is that it doesn't understand that I'm saying "hey Siri" in the first place. I've had to adapt how I pronounce Siri to rhyme with eerie and really annunciate the syllables. Then when it does hear me it's a 50/50 decision on whether it will start listening for further commands or just think that all I wanted to do was loving say hello and she just says hi back. In the best case scenario you say "hey Siri" immediately followed by your command and it hears everything and does it right. That was, sadly, a small fraction of the times I tried talking to my phone. It's a great feature and when it works it's awesome. But it was barely usable in my one real test of its efficiency. Also iOS 8 is buggy as gently caress I can't wait for the inevitable update holy poo poo.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:36
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That *is* how you pronounce Siri.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Called it! It's on the front page of my local news as well: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/bendgate-apple-iphone-6-plus-found-bending-in-pants-pockets-20140924-10l5qm.html Comments full of Android fanboys as you'd expect. Honestly, overall I'd say it's a bit of a non-issue given that there's probably tens of thousands of them out there by now, and there's only a handful of bending reports. Something to be aware of I guess, but unlikely to affect you unless you do something out of the ordinary!
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Sep 24, 2014 01:42
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Got my iPhone 6 today. Really enjoying it so far. Question to anyone who got the 6+: Do you have gigantism? How big are your hands? That thing seems way too big for anyone of normal proportions to use.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:44
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Bending sorta makes sense a device that big and thin made of aluminum just might but I wouldn't worry too much.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:46
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blakout posted:Bending sorta makes sense a device that big and thin made of aluminum just might but I wouldn't worry too much.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:47
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Whirlwind Jones posted:There's nothing wrong with putting your phone in your front pocket. If your phone is bending simply because you put it in your front pocket then you have really weird shaped thighs and also probably some extremely tight pants. 
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Sep 24, 2014 01:49
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Wow thanks for hacking my icloud jerk 
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Sep 24, 2014 01:54
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Feenix posted:That *is* how you pronounce Siri. Ask your phone "how do you pronounce your name" and she responds with a pronunciation like that sounds like "silly" but with an R. Regardless of pronunciation it wasn't as reliable as I had hoped. Like I said: awesome when it works but wish it was more consistent.
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Sep 24, 2014 01:57
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ShoogaSlim posted:Good thing I'm one of those insufferable people whose phone is always out and I don't actually interact with the people I'm around. 
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Sep 24, 2014 01:59
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ShoogaSlim posted:Ask your phone "how do you pronounce your name" and she responds with a pronunciation like that sounds like "silly" but with an R. What do you have your language/location set to? Maybe this is different for UK Siri or something? If so, it's funny in that case that they would change how Siri pronounces its name but not what it responds to.
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ShoogaSlim posted:Ask your phone "how do you pronounce your name" and she responds with a pronunciation like that sounds like "silly" but with an R.
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ShoogaSlim posted:Ask your phone "how do you pronounce your name" and she responds with a pronunciation like that sounds like "silly" but with an R. Do you pronounce "silly" like "see-lee"?
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Sep 24, 2014 02:04
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withak posted:Anyone commenting on the flexural behavior of cell phones should be required to submit relevant coursework in materials science or engineering mechanics. Is there a chance the phone could bend?
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Sep 24, 2014 02:15
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:What do you have your language/location set to? Maybe this is different for UK Siri or something? Pretty sure she uses two pronunciations. Seeree and sirree. Or it sounds like that. http://clyp.it/oqyxj2hj I put a lot more effort into this than I should have.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:17
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tuyop posted:Pretty sure she uses two pronunciations. Seeree and sirree. Or it sounds like that. Those all sound exactly the same, like putting an s in front of eerie, to me.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:18
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TheJoker138 posted:Those all sound exactly the same, like putting an s in front of eerie, to me. I don't know, 2 and 4 sound much softer in the first I to me. But this is a bit seely.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:21
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TheJoker138 posted:Those all sound exactly the same, like putting an s in front of eerie, to me. One sounds like sirry and another sounds like seerie, so I guess both are correct? For what it's worth, the Australian voice says it closer to Sirry more often than not.
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Any word on whether third-party keyboards will soon support voice dictation? I know SwiftKey doesn't. That's a big downside for me, as I really wanted to exclusively use SwiftKey. I have gotten very accustomed to the swiping.
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Well sorry for striking up pronunciation chat. Now that I'm in my quiet room it seems either way of saying it pulls it up. Which could probably mean that the music I was listening to was really loving with how well the phone heard me. It really wasn't that loud at all. It's odd because I can be in a car with loud music playing and ask "what song is this" and it filters out the music really well to hear my question. All in all, Siri is inconsistent just like she always has been. What a gal.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:25
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Brock Landers posted:Is there a chance the phone could bend? Everything bends.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:26
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withak posted:Everything bends. If you give it a moment.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:32
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Bend it like Shirri.
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This bending scandal kind of reminds me of the thing they had with the 4(?) where people would lose reception if they held it the wrong way.
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