Consumer Reports Bend Test Pits iPhone 6 Plus Against the Competition

sure enough , Apple’sonly received nine reportsof bent iPhones and we highly doubt you ’ll have any ground to worry about your own , but do Apple ’s newiPhone 6andiPhone 6 Plushandle the insistency any better than contend models ? Consumer Reports put that to the test , scar the Modern iPhones against other gargantuan handset let in the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 .

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Using an Instron compressing test machine to squash the devices , the publishing added forcefulness in 10 pounding increments until the phones were permanently bent . astonishingly , the charge plate - corporate Galaxy Note 3 came out on top , withstanding an entire 150 Lebanese pound of force before giving out , while the iPhone 6 Plus took only 90 pound . The LG G3 had a potent showing at 130 pound , and the HTC One M8 and iPhone 6 come in last by withstanding just 70 pounds of pressure . Still , as the publication point out , even pressing down with 70 pounds require quite a bit of effort : rough the same as strain to break off four full - size wooden pencils simultaneously . Do n’t try itwith your au naturel hand — or at least betoken it off from other people . Because splinters . [ Consumer Reports ]