Is the iPhone 6 just too SLIPPY?

[Guinness Boy]

I am moderately clumsy but not a complete klutz by any means. I've managed to have an iphone since the 3 came out without ever dropping it or cracking the screen. That is until I got the 6.

I have now dropped it four times. On none of those occasions have I been drunk - in fact I have had one bottle of wine in a week and a half. The third one caused a small crack in the top corner but the fourth has just cracked it all over the shop.

I know a good repairer round the corner though I expect it will cost me a few quid but I am baffled at my treating of this most expensive and technologically advanced device like wet soap. I have come to the conclusion that it is too shiny/slippy and too thin.

Am I mad or are you all dropping yours so to speak?

 

[Robot Chicken]

The Samsung Galaxy 6 is also very slippery.

The solution is to get a case.

 

[SteveTheSeagull]

Also very bendy

 

[Guinness Boy]

The solution is to get a case.

*writes that down*

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

There isn't an iPhone user in existence that hasn't dropped their phone from at least a minimal height over the course of their ownership.

The difference is, there are those who are aware of the ever-present dangers and who prepare accordingly by buying a case, and there are absolute MASOCHISTS like yourself that just want to watch the world burn.

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

I am not a complete klutz by any means.

Are you sure about that?

I have come to the conclusion that it is too shiny/slippy and too thin.

You hit the nail on the head here because the iPhone 6 / 6+ is too thin. It's a case of form over function. The last iPhone I had was the 4S which was chunky and was nice to hold. That's why I now have a Sony Xperia Z2 as it's a chunky, nice to grip phone. I don't feel I'm going to lose it just by holding it unlike the iPhone 6 / 6+.

 

[Bold Seagull]

There isn't an iPhone user in existence that hasn't dropped their phone from at least a minimal height over the course of their ownership.

The difference is, there are those who are aware of the ever-present dangers and who prepare accordingly by buying a case, and there are absolute MASOCHISTS like yourself that just want to watch the world burn.

Cases are for pussies.

 

[Hiney]

Cases are for pussies.

Or alternatively, for people who can re-sell their phones for MUCH MORE than they would have got if they had not been lovingly protected by a CASE.

 

[Triggaaar]

Cases are for pussies.

Is that what the ladies tell you?

This is what I have on my 4S:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00409YVSO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

It's nice quality, doesn't make the phone much more bulky, and it protects the phone when I drop it.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

I have a 6+ and every one all the way back & never broken any, a case ruins the classic English design of the product. Only an idiot would stick some 4 by 2 round the sides of a Ferrari so why with am iPhone?

 

[Bold Seagull]

or alternatively, for people who can re-sell their phones for much more than they would have got if they had not been lovingly protected by a case.

pussies!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Are you sure about that?

Not JAMIE levels.

You hit the nail on the head here because the iPhone 6 / 6+ is too thin. It's a case of form over function. The last iPhone I had was the 4S which was chunky and was nice to hold. That's why I now have a Sony Xperia Z2 as it's a chunky, nice to grip phone. I don't feel I'm going to lose it just by holding it unlike the iPhone 6 / 6+.

QED

 

[Hampster Gull]

Dropped mine at the weekend. £100 to repair

 

[Prince Monolulu]

If it wasn't Apple, I'd get one.

 

[CheeseRolls]

It really baffles me that so many mobile phone reviewers, make such a song and dance about the finish on the back of a phone. So many of them particularly hate plastic backs. However no one ever faced a large repair bill, because the back of their phone got marked or scuffed - I rest my case (rather roughly on the nearest uneven surface)

 

[Mr Putdown]

I've owned iPhones since they came out and IMHO the iPhone 6 is the worst for 'slipperyness'. Dropped & smashed my first one two days after launch and have done it again twice, the latter one after spunking nearly fourty quid on a genuine Apple case.

It still caused a small crack in the screen near the home button. Despite both the phone and the protective case being genuine Apple products, unsurprisingly Apple deny any liability whatsoever.

If I were to add up how much I've actually spent on every iPhone & iPad that I've bought, it's in the thousands. Yet it means absolutely nothing to them.

I guess I've got 'mug' written on my forehead in some proprietary, invisible UV Apple iInk.

Or more likely I really was a mug Apple wise.

 

[Easy 10]

Love my HTC dot-matrix case. It slams shut the INSTANT its of my hand, screen is fully protected. Lots of nifty little interactive touches, games, notifications. Swipe up to answer a call, I don't even have to open the cover.

Its the FUTURE.

 

[gregbrighton]

 

[BN9 BHA]

Cases are for pussies.

And for clumsy cluntz.

I have a 6+ and every one all the way back & never broken any, a case ruins the classic English design of the product. Only an idiot would stick some 4 by 2 round the sides of a Ferrari so why with am iPhone?

It's a phone not a fashion item.

 

[Bold Seagull]

A grown man said 'lol' – he'd do well on here!