Video: The iPad Air 2 withstands a ‘bend test’ about as well as you’d expect

The reason the “bend test” videos for the iPhone 6 Plus went viral is that they raised questions about whether the device would bend just from carrying it around in your pants pocket. This shouldn’t be a concern for anyone who owns an iPad Air 2, since the tablet was never intended to be carried around in your pants pocket and we can’t imagine any reason for a sane person to do so. All the same, that hasn’t stopped YouTuber Marvin Macht from putting the iPad Air 2 through a bend test of his own and the tablet predictably did not hold up well under pressure.

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The reasons why the new iPad doesn’t survive being bent are pretty easy to understand: It’s a remarkably thin device that is also much larger than the iPhone 6 Plus. The more surface area you have on a thin object, the easier it is to bend — thus it shouldn’t surprise us to see the device crumple under pressure.