So Apple’s iPhone 6 test to check for bend – 20minutos.es

Image iPhone folded hands a person. (Portaltic)

After the failed launch of the first iOS update 8 and scandal ‘bendgate’ in social networks denouncing the new iPhone 6 bends quite easily , Apple has decided to invite a small group of journalists to visit the facilities where the Cupertino company performs stress testing of its smartphones ‘before going to market.

Only have received nine complaints in relation to’ bendgate ‘

Among the group of communicators selected one of the journalists of the portal, Laureen Goode, who documented how are the four tests that Apple made to ensure that their smartphones do not bend was.

The entourage of journalists was led by the vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple, Phil Schiller, who took the opportunity to say that we have only received nine complaints in relation to ‘bendgate’ in Cupertino, which is a tiny percentage of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sold that for e l first weekend reached a record 10 million units sold.

Before the release of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus the September 19, Apple checks each model 15,000 units of its new flagship.

crushing Test

At this stage, Apple tries to reproduce what happens to an iPhone c users hen sitting on hard surfaces and different -blandas -. with the ‘smartphone’ in the back pocket

This test is divided in three phases: the first to test the effects of sitting on a iPhone on a hard surface, the second to know what happens when your user sits on a soft surface and the third-and the “worst cases “in the words of
senior VP Engineering ‘hardware’ of Apple, Dan Riccio to study the consequences of sitting with the iPhone in the back pocket on the edge of a hard surface.

These tests,

repeated bending test “a thousand times” for each iPhone to check. three points

“This test is probably the most relevant videos you have seen “c omentum Riccio told reporters.

Once released, the phone again normal form

This test engineers placed the ‘smartphone’ on metal bars at each end of the terminal so that it is suspended in the middle. Once placed, they fall under a pressure equivalent to 25 kilos in the central part. According to re / code during the show were able to see how the iPhone doubled while he was pressing, but that, Once released, the phone went back to its normal shape.

Riccio explained that when the iPhone remained folded was because users had applied a higher supported by phone pressure.

Test pressure point

The third of many tests that Apple devices is subjected to its test pressure on a single point. To do this, a machine is responsible for implementing a pressure equivalent to the 10 kilos weight directly in the center of the iPhone.

Torsion Test

last of the test is to hold the iPhone at its two ends and while one clamp remains stationary and the other rotates slowly to a degree that Apple does not want to reveal.