What’s hotter than a new Apple iPhone? A new Apple iPhone that bends! Unbox Therapy returns with a larger set of smartphones across different manufacturers to test, even an older Nokia Lumia, just to prove that not everything bends to the forces of nature, or your hands, or your thighs, so easily as the iPhone 6 Plus.

It’s only reasonable to put the smaller iPhone 6 to the same torture as its bigger sibling. And it is somewhat also reasonable to expect that it won’t be so quick to yield, which is what this new test video proves. Though presumably made of the same materials and with the same meticulous care that Apple is so famous for, the iPhone 6 barely budged. The theory is that because it is smaller, it is more compact and therefore less susceptible to bending. But then again, the Galaxy Note 3 is actually larger than even the iPhone 6 Plus and yet it fared better than Apple’s first phablet.

One device that immediately came to mind when #bendgate started was the HTC One M8, because of its similar aluminum material and unibody design. It’s 5.0-inch screen also sits somewhere in between the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. That said, HTC’s 2014 flagship would not budge. Well, not entirely. It was amusing to note that the screen bulged out a bit where the force was being applied but went back to normal afterwards.

The real winner of this batch, however, is the completely new Moto X. Though also with an aluminum frame, Motorola’s latest masterpiece was noted to be impossible to bend with bare hands. No creak, no sound, no movement, no bulge. A solid piece of slab that attests to Motorola’s attention to quality which will hopefully carry on even under Lenovo’s flag.

For kicks, Unbox Therapy threw in a Nokia smartphone, particularly a Lumia 1020. Nokia’s devices have long been the center of praise and jokes for being tough and rugged, though its Lumia line still has to be put to the test. The Lumia 1020, in particular, has a 41 megapixel PureView camera which might make your presume it has some very sensitive and fragile components inside. Lo and behold, aside from an initial movement of the screen, the Lumia 1020 proved that Nokia still has it. Or had it, rather. Let’s see if Microsoft will be able to keep that tradition going.

11 COMMENTS

  1. And yet millions of iDiots will gladly spend $800+ on a phone that bends like a Olympic gymnist. That Apple Kool-Aid is some serious sh!t.

    • why oh why do you care when you will never buy an i d ott phone? Enjoy what you like and be happy. Could it be that maybe, just maybe, your life is so empty that you have to put down others to feel better about yourself? Life is too short to spend one’s time deriding others.

      • It’s called karma… Non-Apple users have had to hear for *years* how inferior their products are since they don’t have a shiny, Apple logo. Now that the flaws are showing (antenna-gate with the 4, this, etc…), it’s more and more apparent that the iDevices are basically mid-level hardware packaged with a premium price.

      • Karma is for the Gods to dispense, not yours to determine. And calling it Karma does not make it so. Karma is something dealt by an unseen hand, not something that one may control and surely, Apple was able to control the material used/thiness of the phone. Stop using karma willy nilly. Two flaws in 8 years. I would call that a great track record.

      • Really?, iPhone been having software bugs to battery issues for years – People just look the other way. If this was a Huawei phone, same people would be using it as an example of a cheap android phone – let’s not pretend.

        Also not a great track record when you only designing 1 – 2 phones a year. Everybody knows you never buy Gen.1 apple products (I learned that the hard way with my PowerBook Ti a long time ago)

      • Were the issues you brought up in MG’s comments? When you say battery issues, do you mean poor battery life across the board in all their phones? Because I take battery issues as some people having poor battery life while others have long battery life. Poor battery life across the board is probably something apple made as a trade-off to something else. Some people do need or would just like having a power source that last more than 8 hours. I am not a heave user so for me, I go two days on a single charge, turn off the phone at least once a week overnight. You may say I am not the typical user as I use the phone to make calls, text a coule of people and play two games (classic sudoku and 2048) on occasion while riding the rails. Mostly, I read the paper. Still have the 4 which I received as a hand-me-down.

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