Bent Xperia Z1 handsets reported by some users

Loooool
No external force to the devices…
hahahahaha….
laughing so hard…. not

Sure that will happen if u sit on it for long time and everyday it’s not Dimond. We have 5 z1 and one ultra still as new!

Great innovation Sony mobile! consider it as Xperia Z1 Flex (with bendable screen) in your hands…LOL

When is official t update arriving??

I don’t understand. But I really love this ammonium frame.

I bet that this is the only “defective” Z1 and made up by Sam(sung) trolls LOL

I see that Sony is also taking part in this ‘curved’ mobile phones

hehe haha huhu :D
it might be quantum world come to our world ! something happen without any casue !
Strong Aluminium Body change that easy by itself or with normal temperature of earth!!!
come on! why someone cannot use their phone!?
i got some problems with xperias like dead pixel or yellow tint BUT those were something else.
but bent aluminium frame because of NOTHING !!! it s bullshit…

I know what happened. Freaking trolls hate the Z1 for being SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANY SAMSUNG YET xD, that they use their hate and force of their brain-washed minds to distort the shape of the handset.
Or.. something more simple – for me it definitely looks like the phone was in the back pocket of some fat-ass-enabled jeans :D One sit would be enough to do that…
NO WAY this can happen just like by itself.
I also can’t believe XB have posted this B/S…

Fake pictures 100%%%. .I have z1 dont have any problem. I think someone force it to bend z1 :)

he putted in his rear pocket and he sit his ass on it, and then he blame it to sony

look at the frame around the covers and say again that heat can do that dude.. no way, the glass wouldn’t allow that

Just let u know my brother live in ksa and there esally gets 50c and his Z1 still new! Sure the one on the photo had got some kind of pressure..

It really hurts to see almost every Sony flagship phone having some flaw in design/build quality (and this comes from Sony “fanboy” as they call it). First there was X10 with that chrome frame easily peeling off, then came Arc/Arc S with that crack above proximity sensor, then came S with that yellowish tint in upper part of screen, then came T (my current phone) with rubber coating on back side peeling off and that loose sim/sd flap which can never be closed properly, and then came Z with back side ungluing itself, and now this…
If this isn’t some purposely created damage, then this is not promising news at all. I guess we will see in upcoming weeks if this is really a flaw on Sony side, or just some purposely created bad publicity. From my perspective, this seems highly impossible, considering build quality in which Sony made us believe (and I don’t see why would they lie). If we don’t see all kind of crappy 5” plastic built phones bent and cracked in half by some pants force, then how is it possible to see an aluminium-framed phone to bend like this? Somebody mentioned heat generated by chipset… How ridiculous would it be having a phone build by aluminium legure which can be melt by some 45-50 degress celsius temperature? It simply seems impossible to me, for company like this to make that kind of flaw.
Yes, as I mentioned, other Sony flagships had some build issues too, but this one – I’m not bying yet. At least untill I see some more users complaining about this same thing.

Yeh. lol. And those arent even said to be able to do that lol

I know right? So stupid. Maybe they think it’s internal forces because it’s inside their pocket. This is one of the most stupidest things I’ve read.

Considering that all the pictures have the bends in different places, it’s hard to accept anything other than external forces.

Having said that, it is Aluminium, so there will be a point where if the temperature is high enough and a force is applied, it may well bend. Why would you put it in the back pocket anyway? You shouldn’t sit on the thing.

Mine’s OK, I put it in my front pocket and has a Nilkin cover. Not saying it can’t happen, but I doubt there was no force applied.

*Edit, OK, the original didn’t say back pocket, it was an assumption.

If you sit on it… It will bent of course, mine is still perfect

It is most definitely not made of ammonium lol.

Exactly.

well i sat on it like 2 times because i keep sticking my phone in my back pocket when drunk, but nothing happened yet…

That’s why i hate Chinese manufactures .
SONY should manufacture their flagships in Japan ( as the old day: Made in JAPAN )
and the mid-low phone in china .

THIS!! They are all jealous of Sony!!!!! But their stupid tricks always fail haha!!!!! Nobody is retarded enough to believe a phone like the perfectly built Z1 would bent on its own! GO SONY

That is a fault of putting the phone in your back pocket and sitting on it for a long time… Really they say no pressure some of those especially the way and where they are bent that is from sitting. Definitely sitting.

Did you read my whole post? And why do you think I’m still using Xperia, if I consider Sony as “worst”? Of course it’s not… I would never go for Samsung or HTC or LG, beside Sony, for various reasons, built quality included. That pretty much sums it all…

(I am an engineer)

To debunk the heat argument: We can rule out heat and heat alone as the cause, because heat cannot permanently deform aluminium as long as it stays below melting point. Yes, below melting point things still deform, but they bounce back after the heat is removed, like the spring in your thermostat needle. Heating aluminium enough so that it is bendable by smaller forces than usual is also ruled out, because the amount of heat needed to do this is at the level of a blowtorch. The fact that the phone still works, and the undamaged plastic bits in the areas where the aluminium is bent show that this level of heat was not reached. So we can conclusively say that a force, not temperature, caused this deformation (forces can be external or internal).

The only source of large internal forces in a smartphone that I am aware of is from failed Lithium ion batteries expanding. The pictures supplied clearly show that this is not the case, since there is no evidence of the phone bulging in the area where the battery is installed.

This only leaves me to conclude that the most likely cause of the damage is from external forces, the sources of which I leave to your imagination.

Aluminum has a melting point 660 C, its temp can’t even get near that

Z1 Z Flex! haha

Its fake no camer button on pics and there shoud be in the z1

yeah i will fart on it and it’ll melt by the farting temperature! LMAO

@lord_rd:disqus , yeah

Melting point
933.47 K,?660.32 °C,?1220.58 °F

@amg38:disqus educate your self bro:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

Well iproduct are also made in China

That’s not the Z1. It’s a leak of the new Z1 Flex!!!

That is a wrong information.. Because I using my xperia Z1 for last 4 month… And it extremely brilliant smooth body finished…..

im glad i own Sony Xperia Z and not Z1. Z1 bending? not a good news. looks like kim kardashian sat on it. xperia z rocks :)

lemme correct that, “Assembled in China”. :)

I don’t know why some images are mirrored (or is it not). It could be an imitation/fake, or some people denied applying pressure on their phone so people will think it’s not their fault and blame Sony for this (Trolls). Just saying…. :)

I know it’s just Apple’s marketing sh*t. I just posted that because you know how Apple use different words to make it sound good but technically they’re just the same. :)

I can see ass shape!!!!

can anyone honestly say that this has happened to them with their Z1 here on Xperiablog? I call bs on the “no external force applied”.

Yeah! Since bitch!! :P

~Jesse Pinkman

Exactly!

Exactly!
I think not where the product is made but who is the manufacturer and what quality of material he uses..

really! or the sam**it users making the mobile bent and displaying the image! fake i think! Sony is Great dont mock them!

Samsung return to paid people again, wtf this is a big joke

because u wear a tight jeans….when u sit down there must be a force that make that phone to bend

Aang the last air bender is going to get in huge trouble if he meets with these other benders: THE XPERIA Z1 BENDERS !!!!!

THIS IS MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!

You fanboys make me sick! These are probably some defective handsets that made it into the supply chain. If you guys think sitting on device could cause this then you’re definitely on something.

i agree with you as Z1 is manufactured by aluminium so it can’t happen

Shut up retard! Sony would never make defective phones!!!!!! Go buy SAMSHIT if you like their plastic laggy phones so much and get out of here!!

Actually, if you look closely you can see the glass is not bent, only the aluminum frame is.

It is an insult to put such an holy phone behind your big fat arse…. ‘That’s’ what happens! It’s gods punishment for disrespecting it I’m telling ya! On the other hand, if you had a curvie ass that would be another story…

on this thread few people have this problem http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z1/Just-realized-my-month-old-z1-is-bent/td-p/440181

Please don’t bend your phone thinking its like the LG G FLEX CURVE phone dumb asses. I have my Z1 since OCTOBER why cause i take care of it.

This has been mentioned before with iPhone 5’s flexing, although nothing come of it.

I have had a Z1 since October. I have always carried it in my FRONT right jean pocket. It has been dropped 3 or 4 times onto it’s aluminium edge. It has, according to AVG Antivirus, run at 38C for periods of time. It has not bent itself.

I also received an iPhone 5S in Nov. Again, I carry it in my FRONT right jean pocket. I have dropped it twice onto it’s also aluminium edge. I have felt it run warm. It has not bent itself.

Oh, and BTW, deformation as a result of heat is the stupidest excuse I’ve ever heard. There are V8 engine blocks made of aluminium and they put up with immense heat, so a phone deforming at room temperature, frankly, is BS.

I treat my phones with respect, and have never sat on them or put them in my back pocket. That’s where my wallet lives, and in the 10 years I’ve put it there and sat on it, I’ve never broken a bank card, so how a phone can bend is beyond me, unless of course, you’re American.. :P

I look after them, and they look after me. If anything changes during the next year I own either phone, I’ll be sure to update here, but I don’t see either phone becoming a flexible flagship.

What phone(s) is shown in the last 4 pictures?

IF I KNOW BETTER IT IS SAMSUNG’S. DELECTABLE BLACK PROPAGANDA

Some of you guys really do sound like some religious nuts.

See, I have the ZL. It’s built with a plastic body and, unfortunately, I suffer from the same issue. It must be said that it’s not as severe as the Z1 in the pictures, but it is very slightly bent inwards. I think that is because I carry it in my back pocket, even though I never ever sit on it, always removing it from the pocket before sitting. Still, the natural shape of our buttocks will force it to bend a little when you walk if you carry it in the back pocket of your jeans, I think. The problem is that it is too big to carry in the side pockets (for me).

Funny enough, I was thinking of getting a Z1, one of the reasons being the slight bending of my ZL, but I always wondered whether the same would happen to it because I would still carry it in my back pocket, and now I see this article. I don’t really believe that bending happened by itself, but would it be possible that the aluminum frame of the Z1 is not so resistant to external force like this?

Ya…:D

I don’t think it’s all accidental, and it’s all unreal, like edited or photoshoped. It’s indeed a nut job against Sony.

It’s like a G Flex Now xD

More trouble with Sony Xperia handsets. Good luck trying to get replacements or any form of decent customer service out of Sony and its repairers from all the reports and personal testimony I have read.

PS: am I right in thinking that alluminium, particularly when thin, is quite bendable? Less strong perhaps than some other materials. Could this be a cause of the problem, perhaps linked also to heat. I do note the long and seemingly expert advice on heat given by someone else, but there were so many reports of the Xperia Z and V overheating and having problems I just wonder if heat is an issue, at least in part, with the Z1 too?

Hello, I just woke up today and tried to close the flap after charging it, and i couldnt! I removed the cover to find out my phone is bent. I tried to get it back to its position, and it was fairly easy, but i still have some deformations with the frame. I LOVE MY PHONE, i dont regret getting it, but I wont get another Sony phone. I got this premium phone i thought its the finest of all. Yet, performance wise, its still the best phone. I thought it was stupid users or even samsung lovers making this out, but it turned out to be a hard truth :(

Maybe I’m just lucky, maybe the cover is good enough, I haven’t been exactly gentle with it pressure wise. But it’s been in cover since day one. I also charge mostly via magnetic dock, maybe that helps.

Xperia Z1 flex :3

Lets apply some common sense (I am an affected user).

I suspect a few of those who have had the bent phone say that no force has ever been applied to the phone, what they are saying is that no excessive force has been applied (i.e dropped or sat upon), it may have gone in somebodys jacket pocket or front pocket and subjected to usual and expected force of a mobile device.

There has been some low level investigation by users into the issue (as obviously no access to machinery to check the force the frame can take and how it compares) and it seems that the Z1 in an increasing amount of incidents is bending under normal use and the below assumption/cause looks to be the base .

This can be largely (but not confirmed) be assumed to be because of the construction of the frame, you will see from below link, the Frame is quite unique in that it doesn’t have a molded solid back that integrates with the side as a single unit – e.g. ala HTC One, it has large cut outs in the aluminium with further cut outs to allow the ports to push in (unsurprisingly this is where the vast majority bend), add a normal amount of force (i.e those experienced in a front pocket whilst sitting) and it probably wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see this frame bend. There are also reports of screens randomly cracking, this again I am sure many will purport is user fault but it was acknowledged by Sony on the original Z (and particularly the Netherlands from memory) .

http://www.witrigs.com/oem-aluminium-frame-with-small-parts-replacement-parts-for-sony-xperia-z1-white

I had the Exact same Issue with my Z1 . it is true that no force was applied in this damage. alot of users almost had the same EXACT POSITION where the BENT part of the phone is. and also my phone is always on my hand or on the table .

How could I have forgotten Nokia? They are just jealous that Sony is rumored to unveil a Windows Phone OS handset this year!

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.

Boner damage ?

I am one of them. My xperia z1 bent after on screen message about overheating. I have tried to put it out of case-mate tough and probably that is how it happend. The phone was very hot. photos are not fake. I have never sat on it. But still you probably will not believe that.

I have had my z1 for about 4 months,it was absolutely brilliant at first but it has started to bend, my friends has done the same (hers is far worse and has had it longer),I have had to get a new one through insurance and if it does it again I will have to change my phone,I have no reason to lie,I love this phone and have never dropped thrown sat on or done anything else to it,it has simply bent. It does overheat but I am also not a believer that this is the cause but there definitely must be some explanation for it,so maybe you would like to call me a paid troll but I can assure you I am not, for whatever reason it bent I have been experiencing problems such as crashing,not being able to charge properly because the charging port is also bent.

I’m currently arguing with Telstra about this issue. I’ve reached complaints. They’re fucked.

I challenge any owners of z1 who think we are lieing to turn on wifi, internet and start recording video. Lay you phone down on bed or sofa and within 15min you to can have a bent Z1. No external force required.

The Iphone 6 now also has this issue and interestingly this has been more widely accepted as a design fault than the same issue with the Z1. Quite a clear message for all the naysayers…don’t be so quick to judge!

http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/11/08/sony-will-repair-certain-cracked-displays-for-xperia-z-series-suggests-leaked-info/

Just found out my xperia has bent and rendered the waterproof seal around the charge port useless, been in a hard case since i upgraded last november so not bent in pocket, and 100% definately hasnt been dropped, going back to sony tomorrow.

Im not lying. my xperia bended. i put at Sony Service Center (Cagayan De Oro Branch). Very Poor Customer Service Ever! I can’t even feel sa VIP they guaranteed when buying the CP!

actually u cant rule this argument out as the aluminium expands and contracts while the glass stays constant therefore the chassis warps

This is my bent Z1 purchased in October 2013.
Sony here in Norway has denied that this is eligible for warranty repair and claims that this is due to an external cause. I still haven’t given up yet. I will talk with Sony and try to figure this out.
This phone has had problems with overheating and “empty battery” before it is empty, and shutdown when filming, and this has been the case ever since I got the phone. I didn’t discover this problem until September this year, and filed for warranty repair before the two year deadline.
I have always had this phone in the Krusell Hector 4XL belt case, or in the front right pocket on trousers which did not have the possibility of bending the phone.
As someone else said, this could be caused by the fact that aluminum and glass has different thermal expansion, combined with the fact that the phone frame is weakened where it has bent.
I now have a Z5, and that does not heat us nearly as much as the Z1 used to do.

Kjetil B.