Samsung puts the metal Galaxy Note 4 through its own bend test

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Samsung wants to dismiss the idea that its upcoming Galaxy Note 4 will be as "easy" to bend as Apple's iPhone 6 Plus. Looking to capitalize on the controversy that Apple and others say shouldn't really be a controversy, Samsung has released a new video meant to showcase the strength and resiliency of its latest phablet. The Note 4 features a metal band, remember, so this was always going to be a fairer fight than pitting the 6 Plus against the plastic Note 3.

The robot is actually wearing jeans

But Samsung seems confident that the Galaxy Note 4 won't permanently bend out of shape like the iPhone. The tests employed here are similar to those Apple demonstrated at its Cupertino lab last week; Samsung puts the Note 4 through a three-point bend test and a human weight test, which simulates a person sitting on the smartphone "hundreds of times." The results look impressive — but you should expect as much from what's basically a Samsung ad / commercial. Samsung attributes the Note 4's apparent sturdiness to its use of a magnesium bracket and a "mutually reinforcing structure between parts."

This all looks well and good, but we'll need to wait for experts like Consumer Reports to give it an unbiased try before reaching any definitive conclusions. Apple's own tests make the iPhone 6 Plus look plenty durable, but it's obviously possible to bend the thing if you put enough force behind it. Metal can bend, and plenty of people will be eager to demonstrate that with the Note 4. Some have already tried.

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iPhone 6: Sorting through fact and fiction around Apple's upcoming smartphone

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Apple's iPhone 6 may be one of the worst-kept secrets -- and most highly anticipated devices -- of the year.

Since introducing the iPhone in 2007, Apple has added a new model every year, with seven generations (covering eight models) so far. For the past three years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has unveiled the new design in the fall, which is why company watchers expect this year's update -- dubbed the iPhone 6 because it follows last year's iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C -- to make its debut in September.

The fact that Apple hosts one big phone event a year, while rivals seem to launch new devices every month, makes each iPhone launch a big deal. That's especially true given that the smartphone is Apple's biggest moneymaker, accounting for more than half of sales and about 70 percent of profit, according to analysts.

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Expectations are particularly high for the iPhone 6, which is expected to be a "major" update to the smartphone. Apple has followed a pattern of introducing big new designs every other year, with appealing but modest updates -- like the 5S and 5C -- in between. But Apple investors and boosters are now ready for revolutionary, rather than evolutionary products, and Cook has said he'll deliver compelling new products in the second half of this year.

So what Cook and his team, led by design chief Jony Ive, put into the iPhone 6 matters. The company can't afford to lose defectors to archrival Samsung or have Apple users wait another year before they upgrade. The iPhone's worldwide smartphone market share plummeted from a peak of 23 percent in fourth quarter of 2011 to 12 percent in the second quarter of 2014, according to market researcher IDC. That puts it in second place behind Samsung.

Though the South Korean giant has battled Apple over patents in the courts and is feeling the heat from Chinese vendors including Xiaomi, Huawei, and Lenovo in fast-growing emerging markets, Samsung still ships more than twice as many smartphones as Apple each quarter.

It's far from game over for Apple. In the latest quarter, ended June 28, consumers bought 35.2 million iPhones even though Apple's latest devices -- the 5S, which added a new touch fingerprint security system and faster chip, and the lower-cost, plastic encased 5C -- were nearly nine months old.

The iPhone 6 just may be one of the largest product launches in Apple's 38-year history. Apple reportedly has asked manufacturing partners to produce about 70 million to 80 million units of its larger screen iPhones by December 30, which is about 30 percent to 40 percent more iPhones than it ordered for its initial run of last year's iPhone 5S and 5C.

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