Google’s Pixel 4 XL has a fatal flaw that no amount of software patching can fix: It literally cracks under pressure.
We’ve come a long way from 2014, which is when early iPhone 6 buyers discovered an annoying problem. Apply enough pressure on those first-gen thin aluminum frames, and you could bend them without damaging the structure of the phone. Apple was quick to fix its “Bendgate” problem and made sure it never happened again.
But every new iPhone since the iPhone 6 was tested for bending problems, with YouTube channel JerryRigEverything being a constant source of durability tests for new devices. The same test is performed on every major new phone, and the Pixel 4 just received the same treatment.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s wholly unsurprising that a privacy-trampling ad-tracking company masquerading as a search engine is bad at hardware.
You don’t want a fake iPhone with dual cameras pretending to be three that cracks in your jeans pocket like the piece of junk it is.
You want a real iPhone.
It is going to be hard to bring that phone back for warranty claim. Maybe it is just me, but I think he really really hated it.
I guess then that Apple’s 6 series was also junk, though MDM was vigorously attempting to deny it was a real problem.
I owned an iPhone 6. Definitely not junk. In fact, it was the best money could buy in late 2014.
Here is the thing: today isn’t late 2014. That’s why the problems with the Pixel 4 are so laughable.
Pathetic battery life and complete lack of structural integrity are two show stoppers for one device. Anyone who buys a Pixel 4 is a fool.
Every successive iPh I’ve purchased, since the 1st in ’07, including the “6,” has been appreciably more refined. My “XR” is excellent.
Sorry. Fool… not idiot.
Yep!
No headphone jack and no SD card?
Must be an idiot!
It wasn’t, It was the Verge geek rage similar to Apple Watch geek rage.
Like Samsung, Google fails at their first attempt at the “foldable” phone.
My illusions that the iPhone 11 was unbreakable were destroyed yesterday when I saw one with multiple cracks in the screen – because it had been screwed too tightly into a store display mount.
Are you sure it isn’t just one of nine…?