14 DAY TRIAL // It’s been about two weeks since Apple announced the iPhone 6 and the smartphone seems to be the company’s biggest success from the last couple of years.
However, the iPhone 6 Plus has become the laughingstock of the competition lately due to some issues that Apple did not face before. The last thing on the list of problems an iPhone 6 owner must confront with is the fact that the phone dangerously bends and does not seem to revert back to its original form.
Lots of iPhone 6 owners recorded the issue on video for everyone to see and this seems to have sparked intense debates among mobile phone users.
Not to mention that this was exactly what competition needed to start publishing another set of commercials that make fun of the too-easy-to-bend iPhone 6 Plus.
The last to join the list of competitors that have taken a jab at Apple’s iPhone 6 is BlackBerry. During his appearance on Bloomberg on Wednesday, BlackBerry’s CEO John Chen dared anchor Cory Johnson to bend and/or break the company’s latest smartphone launched earlier this week, the Passport.
The Passport is much thicker than the iPhone 6 Plus
Even though John Chen announced during the BlackBerry Passport launch that the phone can withstand the same amount of pressure that bends the iPhone 6 without any problems, what better way to prove that than showing it on TV.
Johnson did not think twice when he was invited to try and bend the BlackBerry Passport the way iPhone 6 Plus can be bent. However, his attempts were met with Passport’s rigidness, as the smartphone did not even flinch when Johnson applied as much pressure as he could.
As you can see in the video below, the BlackBerry Passport barely bends and the smartphone immediately reverts to its initial form. Apparently, there’s no way you can break the Passport even if you want to, unless you put it through the hammer test.
It’s worth noting though that BlackBerry Passport is much thicker than the iPhone 6 Plus. The former measures 9.3mm, while the latter is only 7.1mm in thickness. This is definitely one of the reasons why one would have a much harder time bending the BlackBerry Passport than the iPhone 6 Plus.
Not the best test one can choose to compare the two smartphones, but at least we know BlackBerry Passport is as sturdy as it gets. Will you be getting the Passport when it goes on sale in your country, or do you still prefer the bending iPhone 6?
