Consumer Reports test: iPhone 6 bends at 70 pounds

If you swing into your car seat and forget that your new Apple iPhone 6 is in your back pocket, is it going to bend or break?

That depends, answers Consumer Reports magazine, which put the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and competitors to a "stress test" to see how much weight it took to bust them after the "#bendgazi" and "#bendgate" controversy arose last week.

In the case of the iPhone 6, the answer is 70 pounds. With both ends of the phone on a stand and the center being pushed, the phone deformed at 70 pounds and the case separated at 100 pounds of pressure. The iPhone 6 Plus, the larger of the two, did better. It didn't deform until it hit 90 pounds with case separation at 110 pounds, Consumer Reports says on its blog.

As for iPhone 6, it flexed under the same amount of weight as a competitor, the HTC One but had an edge when it came to separation by 10 pounds. The iPhone 6, however, didn't hold as well as the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, which didn't flex or break until it hit 150 pounds, or the outgoing iPhone 5, at 130 pounds and 150 pounds respectively.

Still, Consumer Reports didn't consider the iPhone to be particularly delicate.

"All the phones we tested showed themselves to be pretty tough," the magazine writes.