Bent Xperia Z1 handsets reported by some users

Maybe this is why the Xperia Z1s has a plastic frame

Always *something* wrong with their flagship devices

LOL… trolls…. just bend it back? There is NO WAY a phone can bend like that by itself, Maybe they have a ghost in their pocket oooooor…. they sit on it and they won´t admit it

I think xperiablog shouldn’t put stupied topic like this. That’s cos of bad using logical any mobile that big with everyday pressure on it will pent. And if it was plastic will crack than ppl start complaining!! If u take care of it nothing wrong will happen. Nothing is perfect!!!!!!

aluminum is easy to bend by heat, so it is very likely that the heat output of the SOC and other modules can bend the frame. We love Sony, yes, but don’t be a blind asscreeper if you don’t have a clue what you are reading about.

stupid*

U smarty and all others go open smart mobile brand and make one if it’s that essay. If u ur that smart go make one ur self.

Please don’t put your ass on your Xperia flagship.
These users are lying, I’m sure.

There is no way that can happen By it self

*easy

Thnx I am brasilian so sorry for bad Eng.

It can probably happen a little… but not this much as on the pic!

sometimes I really wonder how far can they go with this crap.. only complete retard could believe this :/
but this is somehow scary you know – if so many people believed the fake ad about new iOS making their precious apples water/temperature proof and simply sinked the phones/tablets in their toilets to check it… oh dear..

NO. Sony would NEVER make defective smartphones!!!!! This is bullshit!! LAGSUNG trolls did this!! They are jealous because their plastic laggy crap will never be as good as the smooth premium beauty of the Sony smartphones! Z1 is perfectly made there is NO way it would bent on it’s own like that!!! STOP SPREADING LIES ABOUT QUEEN SONY!! SAMSUNG AND APPLE WILL NEVERR BE AS GOOD AS THE QUEEN!! I love you Sony. Make.Believe <3

No prob

And Sony has fallen into the Iphone5 trap.
Aluminum is not so rigid as people might think and when bent, won’t return back into the former shape,
That’s why I prefer the Z and Z1s design because of the possibility of slightly bending the device without breaking it by placing it into risky pockets.

stupid enough comment!

All the phones in the pictures were owned by Uri Geller

Take that LG and Samsung in your face

Nah my z1 is straight, not gay haha but really how did it get so bent

Samsung, LG, HTC, Apple = If you can’t beat Sony’s innovation, pay trolls to damage their phones. Next step, take pictures and post them online. For those of you that don’t know, a phone can never get bent like this on its own (especially with the solid aluminium frame of the the Z1), unless external forces are applied!

You’re making it sounds like Sony have the worst problem. Has any Sony phones battey exploded?

Looks like back pocket ass sits

guys i am still using, xperia z for 9 months, without any covers or what so ever cuz its shock proof, sure it fell 3-4 times by now at the least but its still brand new as f**, my friends using s4 or anything else had the phones for this long and they look old as f**. And now this a bend from out of now where can only be described by Einstein’s equation IF HE HAD ONE….

wait he has one
“A bend in the AL body of Z1 is directly proportional to the amount of jealous FUCKS using iphones and samsungs”

This is “normal” distortion for pocket store. Z1 is very good if this ppl has still not cracked display

Hmmm this must be David Beckhams phone … Bend it like Beckham lol!

I agree

Purely Bullshit, by the look at it, this is induced damages by user.

Looking at this pictures the first thought is that: force has been applied to these phones.

What’s there to imagine… they sat on the phone and didn’t notice that. So after they went to the kitchen and back they saw a bended phone.
Some of them lost the phone and stumbled upon it while wiping ass in WC…

Is that the Xperia Z1 Flex? lol

I’m sorry, I didn’t realize the laws of physics allowed for metal to bend itself with no external force present.

Those comments about the photos being “fakes” or being put out by “trolls” manage to break the barrier of stupid blind fanboyism. Really, someone will really spend their money to buy a flagship device, bend it somehow and post it online and claim that it’s strangely bending somehow? In what planet you live in? Maybe it can be a minor design flaw by Sony that causes it bend when applied to a certain pressure, and while it certainly looks weird, it doesn’t really break the functionality of the phone. And you all should know that nowadays smartphones are really fragile.

*waiting for some illiterate Sony fanboy to call me a Samsung/Apple fanboy*

No they haven´t sat on it… they have bent it on purpose with their hands

please…. assembled in china is made in china….

after “The Display Cracked itself” issue and now “Bend Xperia Z1 By Itself”.

What next?
“The Z1 Torn in Two by itself”
?!
its really a bullshit by itself!

The return of the Xperia Arc.Finally.

dude, melting point is the point where it begins to “melt” – bending occurs much earlier, but indeed you need light external force at lower degrees. But what is “external force” – it would be sufficient to bend over while your smartphone is in your jeans pocket with maybe 70°C. It IS possible and thats the point. I’m not saying that those pictures are proof.

How could this happen to Xperia?
I find they are the most well built and compared to others which are mainly plastic(Yes! you know where i’m going)!

Does it disobey Newton’s first law O . O?!?
Sony Make.Believe

you’re right dude, i took it back what i said

Yepp… and the next Point is: Its aluminum and it has a high value of heat conduction so it is nearly impossible to heat it just at one Point to make it bend… and even IF it would bend because of heat or something it would go back in ist normal form as soon it cools down…

I am a rough user. I don’t even have screen protector or casing. My Z1 still look new

Drop Test. Yes, they spent their money to make a drop Test and Post it online. Or have you ever seen a “will it blend Test”.?

Hoax! It’s just a secret innovative feature you have to discover for yourself! Have poor viewing angle? Just bend it a little bit, & voila

Agree

You are absolutely right! Have you heard about “鹏泰“in China and Taiwan？This is a company set up by Sam(sung) doing all these dirty works. These are all proved to be true and recently this company was punished by Taiwan government for NT10,000,000

Hi troll, how are you today? If we made you sick then perhaps you should go see a doctor? Mental institute should help

I can`t agree more.

if the phone is bent that means that the back glass is bent. its is impossible since theglass will most likely break or fracture. this can only happen if the phone is heated enough to be able to bend the aluminum frame and the glass.

Trolls cant even troll properly.

this is a feature. its called Xperia Arc
everyone knows, Arc is sexy and curvy.

Whoops.. you forgot Nokia and their QX lenses troll..

Did you mean “Science?”

This isnt GHOST ADVENTURES so don’t say debunked. just a bunch of dumb asses out there either bend their phone or sit on em

and thats the reason LG make G Flex…

Please don’t put your ass on your Xperia flagship.
This is brilliant. Sony should put this in the “Getting started” part of the User’s Guide. And for US users – on safety label of course (something big, like those “THIS IS FIRE, IT IS REALLY HOT. DO NOT TOUCH IT!”, so some morons don’t hurt themselves at own homes while making their coffee). Warranty should mention that too.
But seriously.. Sure they’re lying.. but IMHO this is a small part of the bigger campaign against the great enemy – Sony – growing in strength every single month, taking their hard earned piece of mobile cake, faster than almost anyone could predict.
This doesn’t smell of a simple lie anymore, that some paid trolls used to spread. It does smell of FEAR that drives them so crazy… Good..
Next time we will hear that Z1 Compact flies by itself through the window and lands on stone surface on purpose.

Sony xperia, beating lg flex without even trying xD

Not sure if intentional, but I see what you did there. Good one.

perhaps.. in response to making a global problem from sitting on a phone and making others believe the phone did it by itself.. lol
(still can’t believe XB posted this c**p)

Well, I’m suggesting you to wait just a little bit more, just as I will do, to see if this issue is real issue (including Z1 too), or it’s just some attention-whore wanting to serve bad publicity for, as Sony says, “the best selling Sony smartphone ever”. I really love how Z1 is built, and Z1C too, and I’m quite undecided on which one I should choose. Anyway, I’m currently very satisfied with my current phone (Xperia T), and I don’t think I will change my phone before summer, or even autumn. And by that time, I guess all issues with Z1 and Z1C will come to surface, and then I will decide should I buy any of them, or not.

I am just the user of the third picture, if you think that I am lying, I can surely tell you I NEVER put my ASS on my Z1.

(I am a Rocket Scientist)

Their Z1s got bent because they don’t have a “pure heart.”

Have had a wonderfull Xperia Z1 since beginning of Dec. It Never bent. Sometimes it heats a bit, in its superb black KRUSSEL thin design housing case, also compatible with Sony DK31 magnetic Dock, but nothing terrible. I read on the Net that extreme using of the Photo and Video Camera modes may make it heat a lot, but I never experienced that on mine.
My main issue is that it takes zero advantage of the new 2A/10W USB charger I bought from Samsung, never mind I use its Magnetic port or its Micro USB Port to charge it, and i tested all cables including the Micro-USB one supplied by Samsung (Is that a USB3 issue ? Else ?). Worse whichever way you charge it, if you use it in data intensive mode in the same time, with monitor luminosity at max, after a moment you get an error message saying … it’s not charging and you should reduce usage so it can charge (Which does not happen before you turn the screen off), and worse than that, if you continue to use it intensively with screen on, then you notice that it discharges even faster than if it was not being charged at all. As if the phone was taking zero juce from the charger in that case PLUS use extra battery power to do that non-sense. I hope next firmware up-date will improve usage of faster USB chargers, if possible, and better allow to use the phone while charging it, without this devil error message.

Man I use it the same exact way. I pull it outside my pocket even before i sit specially while riding the car, yet it had a small deformation!! I cant remember applying additional force than the regular use! Yet I managed to get it back to shape!! Just take more care of urs because i thought i did enough!

Nothing out of the ordinary has befallen my handset, so I cannot understand why it would bend like this. It seems a factory problem. Recall maybe?

I don’t know, I don’t put it in my back-pockets, I don’t force it. When I first saw it I blamed the owners, but two days ago I put it on my desk and went to sleep, and after I waked up, I took my cellphone, and then realized It was a little bended. (It did not bended so much like the ones in the previously pictures, but it bended a little, I don’t even know what to thing).

My Z1 only ever goes in my front pocket and it’s also slightly bent.

I reported it to sony on twitter and they wanted it sent to them to understand the problem.

I put the bending of my frame down to use of the qx10 camera, as the position they show in all there demo’s is across the sim / usb ports which is a weak point in the frame. As the cross section of material is massively reduced by the holes they’ve punched into it.

I only noticed it because the sim cover didn’t line up perfectly

Most of the pics in this thread are bent around the ports

this is what i tweeted to sony uk

http://t.co/yif4Ij6lFB

Whatever it is don’t buy sony . its a crap phone that i ever used…. My previous sony z1 also bend. Just used one month. Im a careful user always take care of my stuff… Samsung rocks!!!!!

My Xperia literally bent in half from going from warm outside temperature to 27 degree air con inside. I am so upset and shocked at how easy it is for the Xperias to be ruined so easily, I literally picked it up from the bench and it was bent in half to the point the screen won’t let me touch it.

No, It’s a relatively common problem with the Z1. If you keep it in plastic(or other material that doesn’t conduct heat) covers, heat can’t get out so phone gets hot. Z1’s frame is made of aluminum while the case is glass. Metal changes length more than glass when exposed to heat so the phone bends.

I put my phone onto charge the other night, still in its case, (usually I take it out and put it on its magnetic dock thing, but I’ve used the micro usb charge port)
And when I woke up the next morning, my girlfriend pointed it that it was bent, and sure enough, it. Was.

I went to the optus shop and got the usual “I don’t know much, I’ll ask my manager ” he said that it could have been the swelling of some component, similar to the Samsung s4 battery swellingexpanding.

Just thought I’d add my story here.

And I’ll point out that I didn’t put my ass on it, as pointed out earlier.

And to those saying that: I’d like to point out that the pictures all show the top corners being pushed back, which means that everyone would need to have the same shaped ass, and be putting their phone in the exact same way.

Just my 2cents

i have had the same issue with my z1. it has just bent over night and i am now having a battle with o2 uk to get it repaired.

I’m not gonna argue about that, and I am not gonna call you any names either. You can believe whatever you want. For me such a self-bending of aluminium is completely impossible.
There is more – I am using the phone for almost a year, and not only me – here where I live it is a very popular handset. It just doesn’t happen, and everyone (not just one friend, many people, and even my own boss) laughed loudly about this “issue” when I was telling them about it.
Even if you had such a bad luck (or unintentionally sit on it, or whatever), which I still can’t believe, I feel sorry for you – I really am – because you are probably one of less than 10 ppl on this planet that had such a problem (if they really had it) with this phone. Seriously.

Yeah, I can tell you that I have been a sony supporter for 15 years and all my media devices have been only the best quality. I have have 3sony phones but my Experia z1 has only lasted me 4months! I always carry my phone only in my left front trouser pocket as a rule, and I agree it can’t bend on its own, but all the complaints I have seen and even the look on the faces at vodacom when I brought it in shows me that the frame is simply too weak for its shape, and if I were manufacturing a phone that couldn’t safely be stored in a guys front pocket, I would certainly see that as a defect!!!! We are not all into man-bags and briefcases just to transport our phones to the local shops! Sony, you just lost another life long client!! Clean up your mess, recall your disposable phones before your competitors close your doors!

Expansion coefficient combined with glue allowing movement when hot.

no one can bent my xperia mini pro!!!!!
feeling safe!!!!!!!

I have had the same issue suddenly come up..
It was all fine until I put it in my car dock and had it on using Google maps for directions..I do not put my phone in my back pocket so there is no chance that I sat on it.
Never mind all the other issues I have had with it.
You are saying this is a Conspiracy against Sony when it happening to people everywhere and in almost exactly the same spot where the frame is at its thinnest. Also where the top of the batteries are and making the connection at the base of the board…
I have the utmost respect for Sony but they are wrong here and doing the same as all the other manufactures out there pushing a product onto the market before it is fully tested counting on us to just let them do what they chose and ignore the issue.
I have been dealing with 2 Sony Z series phones having issues.

yes i can say 100% mine bent but never been in my back pocket and no external force applied by me.

having today talked to trading standards if anyone has a warped phone which affects the seal over the charge port like mine ie cant close the flap, you can write to your phone contract supplier and offer to give them the opportunity to repair or replace free of charge under warranty, if they decline like with me you can terminate your phone contract free of any charge as the phone is not fit for purpose ie not waterproof any more and they cant do anything about it leaving you to take out a new contract with another supplier and getting a new phone .

Mine is bent so much that the flap that covers the charger port isn’t flush and thus rendering the phone ‘non-waterproof!’ Sony have advised they wont replace it! I have only had it for about 6 months, so its still in the warranty period and the phone is obviously not fit for purpose! Poor poor service! I don’t keep it in my back pocket due to the size of it, but have noticed it overheating quite a lot – hugely disappointed.