Unlike some curved smartphones, the iPhone 6 Plus isn't supposed to be bendable. A number of its early adapters, however, found out the hard way how easy it is to bend their new iPhones out of shape.
Some iPhone 6 Plus owners took to the MacRumors forum to report on the strange forms their new phones had taken after spending some time in their pockets. But while many of the owners whose phones became bent were quick to blame Apple for a structural flaw, others don't see the bends as a big deal. "Considering the device is just over a quarter-inch thick and made largely of aluminum, a flexible metal, the fact this jumbo iPhone will bend when great pressure is placed on it for extended periods is a bit of a well, duh," Christina Bonnington at Wired notes, adding that some iPhone 5s and iPads can also be bent.
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