There are problems for Apple’s new plus sized iPhone and its latest operating system.<br /><br />User of the iPhone 6 have found its aluminum shell makes the device lighter and thinner, but it is also bendier – not good when you put it in your pocket and sit down. <br /><br />Social media is full of unhappy people moaning about what is being called ‘bendgate’ and the flaw could put some off buying the device. <br /><br />Outside an Apple store in London, Mark Hennley said: “If those reports are true for Apple then it’s a show stopper for me to upgrade, because I’ve got a 4S so [I was] considering upgrading to their phone, otherwise I’d go to a competitor like Samsung.” <br /><br />Another potential customer, Sam Gibson, said he was put off the iPhone 6 Plus by these reports: “Because it’s going to cost me more money, if it does break I’m going to have to replace it, so I’d rather go with a safer option with a safer phone, the iPhone 6 itself, it’s more reliable because I’m going to have it for a couple of years. I don’t want a phone that’s going to be breakable or bending.”<br /><br />Since the phones were launched 10 million have been shipped. <br /><br />As of late Thursday, Apple had not commented on the problem and whether it would replace bent handsets. <br /><br />Apple boss Tim Cook was even challenged by Blackberry’s Chief Executive John Chen to a bending contest, on the basis that its new Passport handset wouldn’t. <br /><br />Samsung also joined in the fun released an ad comparing a bending phone to its own product. <br /><br />And it isn’t Apple’s only problem. It has also had to pull an update for its latest iPhone operating system, iOS8, just hours after it was released to fix a number of bugs. <br /><br />The update was blocking calls and the fingerprint-reading Touch ID feature on the phones. Users also complained about sluggish Wi-Fi and reduced battery life. <br /><br />with Reuters
