Samsung Officially Responds to Galaxy S6 Edge Bend Test Video

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Posted April 6, 2015 at 3:00pm by iClarified

Samsung has issued an official response to the Galaxy S6 Edge bend test video posted by SquareTrade.

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First, the video assumes a very specific condition – 110lbf (50kgf), which rarely occurs under normal circumstances. The normal force that generated when a person presses the back pocket is approximately 66lbf (30kgf). Our internal test results indicate that the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge are not bendable even under 79lbf (32kgf), which is equivalent to putting pressure to snap a bundle of five pencils at once.

Secondly, even though both front and back sides are exposed under the same level of pressure in normal circumstances, this test does not show the strength of the back side. Some smartphones have different durability in each the front and back sides respectively. SquareTrade has only tested the front side, which may mislead consumers about the entire durability of smartphones.

For this reason being, Samsung will officially deliver our statement to SquareTrade and ask them to conduct the stress test again which targets both front and back sides, and open the test result to the public.
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Samsung's statement doesn't seem to understand that SquareTrade was increasing the pressure to discover the breaking point for comparison purposes. It didn't assume a specific force of 110 lbf but rather increased the force until the device bent and recorded that value.

As noted, SquareTrade only tested devices being bent with the display facing upwards. We'll let you know if it decides to run its tests again to test the back side of the device.

Samsung has produced its own bend test video which you can see below...

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Nath - April 7, 2015 at 10:24pm

Comparing the Galaxy S6 with iPhone 6 bending without acknowledging the iPhones weak point around the volume button is turning a blind eye on the whole cause of the bendgate. The bend will always happen on the weakest point which is usually in the middle because the distance from the points in this three point pressure test is the largest. That works for almost any phone except iPhone who has one even weaker point due the design flaw. How much would it take to bend in there? Lets see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X0Xglp1IJQ Yeah - its only 30 kg of force, while Galaxy S6 bends on over 50kg of force. Almost twice as much. How else was it even possible for even the kids to bend an iPhone 6 in the Apple Store? iPhone is still the King of Bend by far.

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gamerscul9870 - April 7, 2015 at 10:33pm

1st off, stating "who" is supposed to target a person thus you only mentioned iphone 6 since that's what you're hinting at with, plus when you said "almost twice as much" you're basically saying it bends more than iphone in which by far takes less pressure to bend let alone material used thereby the Galaxy is master of bending even looking at curved displays from the s5.

Vb - April 7, 2015 at 7:47am

Oh my god, is that windows XP on right side?

gamerscul9870 - April 7, 2015 at 10:19am

Even they still use a version better than 8, but what's the surprise?

Adrian - April 6, 2015 at 9:08pm

Yeah and your comparing the iPhone 6 plus. The Galaxy s6 edge is basically comparable to the iPhone 6 plus. Your argument is invalid. You're just hurt that your beloved Samsung couldn't do things right. Not like it ever did...... But that's not of my business...

Carsten - April 6, 2015 at 4:30pm

I and looser Apple. Bend plastic, like the note 3 has, and it won't break or bend. Obviously. Plastic will get back has a higher tensile strength than aluminum, so duh!

Carsten - April 6, 2015 at 4:27pm

@looser Apple. I believe you should read my comment again. I just stated that Samsung is complaining about the fact that their phone got out of the test worst. I never made any comment about what was a better phone. Fandroids never really take the time to read before they react. And when I mentioned my advise on how you can avoid having a bent or broken phone I didn't mention any brand at all. I'm no Apple fanboy, just someone who in his proffession takes an objective look at things. Your comment is clearly subjective and just what you believe to be the truth.

Tech Jedi - April 6, 2015 at 3:26pm

Either square trade or Samsung needs to recalibrate their machine.

Chris - April 6, 2015 at 3:26pm

Yet when it happened to the iPhone, they made fun of it.... Samsung logic

gamerscul9870 - April 6, 2015 at 3:38pm

Not really. Never saw anything happened with that.