Originally Posted By: 97tbird
Seems mostly an issue with the 6 plus??
Seems to be the bulk of these complaints so far are for the plus.
Some engineering types have commented elsewhere that this is entirely predictable. Apple went to an AL frame with the 5. With AL being less elastic than plastic, at some point it doesn't recover from the force and permanently deforms. Apparently, this doesn't require one catastrophic bend like that video, but can result from repeated smaller events.
I was unaware that it also was a risk with the 5. But that phone was smaller and the frame sidewall was thicker and rectangular cross section, so the couple reports of it involved the most extreme cases.
But the 6 is larger and has thinner, curved frame walls which are substantially weaker than the 5. So the risk of bending is increased, especially at the control cutouts, where the frame is weakest of all. That seems to be where the bending is happening in the pictures.
The advice is to carry the 6 in a front shirt pocket and treat it more gently than a 5. I don't think Apple has commented on this. With Jobs gone, it will be interesting to see what they say about it, if anything.
Time will tell. But it looks like the 4, with its steel frame and glass back, is the most rigid of all.
Every new iPhone has this happen on release. With 5-10 million units handed out, it is going to suffer more real-world situations than the designers can ever contemplate. Even the 4 had its "antennagate", but we never had a problem with ours.