Narathan
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I just hope this marks the end for thinner phones. Nobody should pay top price for a phone and see it get bend out of shape by daily use like that... Especially premium iPhones. Not saying it's okay on other phones, but this kind of defeats the whole "cheap fragile plastic" argument in my honest opinion. don't get me wrong, I don't like Samsung one bit either and most plastic phones are just plain ugly.
...But you can't just slap a case on it and fix it, like antennagate, chipping or decoloration like on the HTC 8X - you can't even compare this with antennagate... This is a phone with a big footprint and a very thin body. Physics happen. And even if you could find a case thats strong enough to prevent it from bending, you shouldn't be required to spend extra money to hide your beautiful phone in a thick, rugged case to prevent it from bending in the first place. There's no excuse, and I never liked the way Apple went with "Here's a free case to fix it" on the older iPhone 4. There's plenty of other OEMS that make mistakes as well, but I didn't expect this from a compagny as big as Apple, that only release ONE (in this case, two) models per year.
Apple dropped the ball here and I hope they can somehow fix it in the next batch before they lose customers. And I'm not saying this because I'm against Apple or anything - I'm being realistic. If I buy a phone, a laptop or whatever at such a premium price, I expect nothing less but quality. "just put a case on it" wouldn't be OK with me in any case (no pun intended). And if you don't have a problem with slapping a case on your phone, that doesn't mean others want to use a case.
By selling millions and millions of phones. Incipio and Otterbox will make millions and millions selling reinforced cases. Not making excuses, but we all know how "antennagate" turned out, don't we? It turned out to be a big nothing.
...But you can't just slap a case on it and fix it, like antennagate, chipping or decoloration like on the HTC 8X - you can't even compare this with antennagate... This is a phone with a big footprint and a very thin body. Physics happen. And even if you could find a case thats strong enough to prevent it from bending, you shouldn't be required to spend extra money to hide your beautiful phone in a thick, rugged case to prevent it from bending in the first place. There's no excuse, and I never liked the way Apple went with "Here's a free case to fix it" on the older iPhone 4. There's plenty of other OEMS that make mistakes as well, but I didn't expect this from a compagny as big as Apple, that only release ONE (in this case, two) models per year.
Apple dropped the ball here and I hope they can somehow fix it in the next batch before they lose customers. And I'm not saying this because I'm against Apple or anything - I'm being realistic. If I buy a phone, a laptop or whatever at such a premium price, I expect nothing less but quality. "just put a case on it" wouldn't be OK with me in any case (no pun intended). And if you don't have a problem with slapping a case on your phone, that doesn't mean others want to use a case.