#Bendgate: Reports of Apple’s iPhone 6 bending in users pockets

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TORONTO – The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have only been in stores for less than a week and already owners are complaining they bend when pressure is applied to the body of the smartphone.

The iPhone 6 is the thinnest model in Apple’s smartphone history, measuring a thickness of 6.9mm and 7.1mm for the larger iPhone 6 Plus model.

Users across a number of forums, websites, and on social media have reported – with photos and video – phones bending or contorting.

During Wednesday’s unveiling of the new BlackBerry Passport smartphone CEO John Chen challenged the audience to bend the new phone at the launch event.

Chen mentioned the issue of the bending smartphone without actually mentioning iPhone, simply calling it “the other phone.”

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The iPhone 6 cases are made from a solid piece of aluminum, and appear to bend around the volume buttons where the frame is at its thinnest point.

One user on the forum MacRumors complained that his iPhone bent after having it in his pants pocket for 18 hours, and posted pictures of the bent phone.

Twitter has lit up with photos and comments related to the bowing iPhone 6 Plus under the hashtag #bendgate.

A video uploaded to YouTube by Lewis Hilsenteger, shows him bending his iPhone 6 Plus with his bare hands and issues a challenge to Apple to address the problem. The video has been viewed nearly 7.5 million times as of this writing.

Apple announced on Monday it sold over 10 million of its iPhone 6 models, breaking its previous record of 9 million for the iPhone 5S and 5C.

Apple did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.