about the new iPhone 6 smartphones And how they bend under pressure

造成iPhone 6的彎彎門事件

From there, #bendgate took off on social media with people bending their phones

之後 網友爭相凹折手機 彎彎門影片充斥媒體

Blaming tight pants and spoofing the whole story

大家怪罪緊身牛仔褲 各種惡搞圖也紛紛出爐

Consumer Reports wanted to bring some science to the matter

所以ConsumerReports想用科學方法研究這問題

And find out how much force does it take

試著了解 究竟需要多大的壓力

For a phone to bend and not bend back

才能使手機彎曲變形 無法恢復

So we took 6 smartphones, including the new iPhones, into our lab for stress testing

我們挑選六款手機進行壓力測試 包括新款iPhone

We used what's called an Instron compression test machine. Right behind me.

使用的是身後這台Instron壓力測試儀

We started at 10 pounds of force for 30 seconds, then release

一開始 施與十磅壓力30秒 然後放鬆

The we upped the force in 10 pound increments and noted it when the phone first began to deform

接下來 再增加十磅壓力 發現手機開始變形便做記錄

Our test lineup, the iPhone 6 Plus, obviously

以下是參加測試的手機陣容 當然有iPhone 6 Plus

Along with its comfortably sized competitors, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the LG G3

還有兩名尺寸差不多的競爭者 三星Note 3和LG G3

We also tested the smaller iPhone 6 along with the HTC One M8

另外還有比較小隻的iPhone 6和HTC One M8

For apple fans still holding on their iPhone 5, we put that one in, too.

為了服務蘋果迷 iPhone 5也有加入測試

We tested 1 sample of each. Turns out,

6種手機各測試一隻 結果發現

it takes a lot of force to permanently bend one of these new iPhones

其中一隻新款iPhone 需要極大壓力才會永久變形

And all the other phones we tested for that matter

而且 其他有參與測試的手機

Even the phones that bent first, the iPhone 6 and HTC One took 70lbs of force before bending permanently

就算是最快彎曲的iPhone 6和HTC One 也要70磅壓力

The iPhone 6 Plus took more punishment at 90 lbs

iPhone 6 Plus能受更多折磨: 90磅

But the smaller, thicker precursor, the iPhone 5 outperformed both of siblings at our test

更小更厚的前輩iPhone 5遠遠超越它兩個同胞

The no noticeable deformation until 130 lbs of force

在130磅壓力以前都毫髮無傷

Finally, there was the LG G3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 3

最後 剩下LG G3和三星Note 3他們彎曲後都能回復

which sprang back to form up until we applied 130 lbs and 150 lbs respectably

分別到了130磅和150磅 才永久變形

At that point, their screens separated from their cases and stopped working

螢幕與機身分離 整個壞掉了

For comparison, we put a few pencils in the Intron

我們把幾隻鉛筆放到壓力測試儀裡來做比較

It took 80 pounds of force to break 4

要折斷4隻鉛筆 需要80磅壓力

I've got 4 right hereI've got 4 right here. And I can tell you, that's pretty tough

我這有4隻鉛筆 他們…真的…很堅固!

Alright, maybe 3

好吧 來試試3隻

And this is what 100 lbs of force look like on a tennis ball, fresh out of the can

在網球上施予100磅的壓力 就會像這樣

One note, a bent phone is bad, but can still function

還有一點 彎彎的手機雖然糟糕 但還是能用

All the iPhones and HTC One looked beat up after our initial test, but were still working

這幾隻iPhone和HTC One雖然輸了測試 但都還沒壞

So we went further to see how much more they could take. As we moved beyond 90 lbs of force

來看看他們到底有多大能耐吧 現在壓力超過90磅了

Screens on those phones started separating from their cases

手機螢幕開始脫離機身

The iPhone 5 held up the longest of these 4, maxing out at 150 lbs of force

4隻手機中 iPhone 5撐得最久 最高達到150磅壓力

Apple's official response is

蘋果的官方回應是

"With normal use, a bend in iPhone is extremely rare and through our first six days of sale, "

在上市後的這六天內 正常使用下 彎曲情形相當少見

"a total of nine customers have contacted Apple with a bent iPhone 6 Plus"

向蘋果公司投訴iPhone 6 Plus彎曲的顧客只有6名

So what's the bottom line for bendgate? Well, based on our comparative here at Consumer Reports

彎彎門到底會延燒到什麼程度?基於我們這次的測試

While not the strongest phones on the market, fear of a serious structural design flaw in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus seem overblown

iPhone 6和6 plus雖非最堅固 但所謂結構缺陷 似乎誇大其實

Follow our ongoing coverage of the new iPhone 6's and all of our electronic reviews

請繼續關注我們對iPhone 6及其他電子產品的相關報導

at consumerreports.org

就在consumerreports.org