>So, instead of opening my text editor I placed an order for a Nexus 6P
Nexus 6P is notorious for atrocious build quality. It bends easier than a bar of chocolate. [0] Google should do a recall on these things. It bends a lot easier than an old iPhone 6 plus.
Edit: I see Google fanboys decided to downvote this comment instead of engaging in a debate. This is not in the spirit of Hacker News. I know HN has a lot of Google employees who are extremely touchy but come on.. be objective once is a while
Anecdote: I have owned a Nexus 6p for ~6 months now. When I'm not using it, it's either on my nightstand (sleeping) or it's in my pocket. It has not bent.
I have carried several chocolate bars in my pockets before (mostly when I was younger). They bend very easily. (They also melt and even when they don't escape the packaging, there is melted chocolate all over the wrapper, and it's nearly impossible to eat without making a mess. And if you let it cool again, those tiny chocolate traces end up falling all over!)
Anyway, I'm not sure I got the point of this (only incredibly tangentially related to the post) piece of FUD.
Fact is that Nexus 6P is incredibly poorly engineered due to the placement of various button cutouts and battery position.
Can you take your phone and do what he did and prove him wrong? Go ahead. Until then, this is not FUD and your post is nothing more than a rationalization.
I don't know. Oddly enough, picking up my phone, placing my thumbs in a particular location along the body of the phone so as to minimize the structural rigidity of the device, and applying force just isn't part of my use case for a phone. I use my 6p like every other phone I have used, and it hasn't bent. Good enough for me!
Seriously. I'm a big dude, and my everyday life is filled with objects that I could bend with a similar amount of force, including objects that I carry on my person and/or interact with a lot. I don't pick them up and try to bend them, and they don't bend.
Interesting on case usage. I'd say virtually everybody I know with an iPhone has it in a case, but for other devices it's maybe 20% of people I know who use one. All anecdotal, and every mall I go in has a hundred shops selling them, I've just always wondered who's buying them
I've never used a case on any of my phones whether iPhone or Nexus. I did use the iPhone 4 bumper they gave out because it was free and I liked the little ridge that let me lay the phone face down.
I'm using a bumper-style case myself just because it came with the phone, and the phone has a glass back and razor sharp edges which is really just bad design.
You need to get better chocolate. I have had the 6p for over 3 months now and try as I might I cannot bend it. I don't see how the phone can bend in 99% use case scenarios.
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Nexus 6P is notorious for atrocious build quality. It bends easier than a bar of chocolate. [0] Google should do a recall on these things. It bends a lot easier than an old iPhone 6 plus.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3cWVdLqXCg
Edit: I see Google fanboys decided to downvote this comment instead of engaging in a debate. This is not in the spirit of Hacker News. I know HN has a lot of Google employees who are extremely touchy but come on.. be objective once is a while