Apple Replacing Bent iPhone 6 Handsets... Maybe!

Apple Replacing Bent iPhone 6 Handsets... Maybe!
An Apple iPhone 6 stands on display at the Apple Store on the first day of sales of the new phone in Berlin Germany on Sept. 19, 2014. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
9/25/2014
Updated:
9/25/2014

As with most iPhone issues, the recent crop of warped handsets has elbowed aside important world news. “Bendgate”, as it’s now strangely known, has seen owners of the iPhone 6 Plus and in some cases the iPhone 6 getting a new banana phone after putting it in tight jeans or their rear pockets.

Now, in a random online conversation with an Apple staff member, there’s some hope for those who’ve chosen to plonk their fat buttocks onto hundreds of pounds worth of unprotected ultra-thin aluminium technology with a glass screen on the front.

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As you can see it’s up to the discretion of the “Genius” and there'll be a “Visual Mechanical Inspection”, which we assume means that someone will be trying to figure out if you did it on purpose because you cracked the screen earlier.

Of course, this brief online chat isn’t the same as Apple admitting that something is wrong, and the company has yet to officially respond to the excited headlines in newspapers across the globe.