So, will we all forget Bendgate?

I am absolutely for design modifications that propel smartphones forward. I loved the flip phones since the day they returned (okay, I waited for the second generation), and I am always fascinated to see how the camera colors develop and evolve to shelter increasingly large sensors. However, a design trend makes me more and more worried – the fact that Apple and Samsung seem determined to make their next phones as thin as possible. Maybe it will work at the end, but I still have to ask: will we all claim that Bendgate has never happened?

Before explaining why I am so worried about the dawn of Bendgate 2.0 (or perhaps 3.0), let’s talk about what happened in the first place. To prepare the scene, the year is 2014, and Apple has just announced its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus – its thinnest iPhones of all time. Everyone has amazed that engineers created a pair of iphones which was only 6.9 mm and 7.1 mm, respectively, without their camera. And then, the unthinkable occurred: iPhones have started to fold.

Due to the thinner chassis, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were more likely to look when they were put under pressure, as if a user had to carry his phone in a tight pocket. Although Apple said that he had only received nine reports in total of the iPhone 6 models, subsequent documents have shown that Apple knew that his last models were more likely to comply – until 7.2 times more likely In the case of the iPhone 6 Plus. Since then, he has rendered his thicker and more durable iPhones, apparently showing the world that he has learned his lesson on the end of the iPhone.

Apple did not however learn its lesson on finesse at all levels, Bendgate making another appearance after the launch of the iPad Pro (2018). Again, users have reported that their aluminum ipad pro chassis were leaned when they were put under pressure, which is far from ideal when trying to place your 11 or 12.9 -inch tablet in a backpack or a bag to carry in a coffee or coffee. And before asking, yes, the iPad Pro (2018) was even thinner than the iPhone 6 series at just under 6 mm thick.

So, when I saw that the next Samsung Galaxy S25 edge has a thickness of about 5.8 mm and that the air of the iPhone 17 (if it is well called that) would be 5.5 mm thick outside the bump of the camera, it was enough to make me nervous. Will premium smartphone be in aluminum or will come without at least a reinforcement? No, probably not, but they did not think that the Titanic was recovering during the day.

Very well, I seem quite woe and gloom about the idea of ​​extra-slim phones of Apple and Samsung, but I promise that this is not the case. Am I concerned? Oh, yes, certainly, but I am also intrigued. I know that the two companies have traveled a long way from their previous hiccups (if this is what we want to call Bendgate or the explosive batteries of Samsung), and for them to try to make extremely thin phones, they feel like they are ready to repel. Is it the innovation I would have chosen? Probably not, but after a few years of outdated designs, I am ready for anything.

In addition, as Apple quickly showed with its subsequent iPhones and its next generation of iPad Pro, he knows how to rotate quickly. It added more metal hood to the chassis of its high -end tablet and finally went to a much harder and lighter titanium frame for its iPhone Pro ranges – something that I expect to continue in the air of the iPhone 17. The glass of Apple modern ceramic shield is also more difficult, which should finish the fairly well. I imagine that the Samsung Galaxy S25 edge will fall in the same sense of the same boat, potentially exchanging part of its glass for ceramics, but mainly sticking to a similar formula of hard and difficult materials.

And yet, I thought we all agreed that the phones no longer had to be as thin as possible. While the manufacturers of Android have moved away from the cascade screens, I thought we were on the illusion that thinness equaled quality. I even thought that we have all decided collectively that thin phones, although lighter and more ergonomic – at some point – have made too many cuts to their battery capacities and their cooling configurations to operate as effectively as slightly thicker alternatives. But I have been wrong several times, and maybe the new silicon carbon batteries will make me eat my words.

If I am not mistaken, Apple and Samsung walk a dangerously thin line (word game). We have seen how many reports to put Bendgate back in the news, and for me, I have the impression that the issues are even higher this time because finesse is the name of the game. If they forgot Bendgate, it is starting to seem as if we were all condemned to repeat it.