Apple took the rare step of allowing selected reporters into its labs on Thursday to demonstrate the extensive tests conducted on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus — aiming to defuse reports that the larger of the devices, the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, is prone to bending when wedged into a tight jeans pocket.
The company reiterated that the bending incidents are “extremely rare” and said 15,000 iPhone 6 devices and 15,000 iPhone 6 Plus devices were put through “exhaustive” tests, according to a report by Re/code.
The tests include one designed to simulate the effect of someone sitting down with an iPhone in a back pocket.
One image getting attention this morning is a photo tweeted by CNBC below. As noted by BetaNews, that’s pretty clearly a Windows XP machine in the middle of Apple’s hardware lab. You won’t hear Microsoft crowing about this, given its efforts to rid the world of the 13-year-old version of its operating system.
Apple opens testing facility to CNBC in an effort to calm ‘bend-gate’: http://t.co/o9XVLiBwqv pic.twitter.com/HhLhESYGr1
— CNBC (@CNBC) September 25, 2014
Meanwhile, questions are being raised about the viral video that appeared to show the ability to bend the iPhone 6 Plus, based on suspicious time changes on the phone used in the video.
Separately, Apple overnight released the new iOS 8.0.2 update, which should resolve the glitches experienced by iPhone 6 users who downloaded the earlier iOS 8.0.1 update.
