New iPhone 6 Problem: White Plastic Strips Discoloration

Apparently, the new iPhone 6 was not yet done in annoying us. I’m pretty sure you have heard about its main issue users were complaining about – its bending problems made more severed by the uncertainty of a replacement. And now here is another iPhone 6 problem for the worldwide web to feast on. Dye from ordinary jeans was reported to be ruining iPhone 6’s plastic strips

If you remember last summer, we were all relieved when a reliable source of unreleased Apple devices disclosed that the white plastic strips would not be present on the iPhone 6 final design. Hence, many were evidently disappointed at the sight of those plastic strips when the unit was first released.

Moving on to the issue, some iPhone users who do not use protective case for their units have noticed a certain discoloration on the plastic strips, which is very unpleasant. It makes the handsets appear dirty and old. And to make matters worse, several soap and other cleaning products they have used in attempt to wash away the undesirable stain did not work.

Well, to make things a little lighter for Apple, this is not the first case in the mobile phone industry. Last year, the HTC one smartphone which also has white plastic strips received complaints as well regarding dye from denim jeans transferring onto the plastic. Well, let us hope Apple can solve this issue better than they did with the bent iPhone 6 problem.

New iPhone 6 Problem: White Plastic Strips Discoloration

Foxconn struggles to deliver the iPhone 6 Demand

Foxconn which is Apple’s major assembler is struggling to meet the high demand of iPhone 6. The latest Apple product has been sold out during its pre-order launch, selling more than 4 million units during the first 24 hours. As the result, the customers need to wait about 4 weeks in order the device to be shipped out to their home.

All the workers in Foxconn site has been allocated to do the production of the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus.  Total of 100 assembly lines which consists more than 200,000 workers has been working around the clock in its largest production site, Zhengzhou, north central China, to meet the demand.

Foxconn was also the only assembler of the iPhone 5S and a small portion of iPhone 5C.The bigger portion of iPhone 5C was manufactured by another Taiwanese contract maker Pegatron. Later on, Foxconn stopped manufacturing the iPhone 5C to concentrate all its resources to make iPhone 5S.

Foxconn is able to produce 140,000 iPhone 6 plus and 400,000 iPhone 6 daily. This makes the iPhone 6 plus scarcer. The waiting time for iPhone 6 plus is longer, around three-to-four weeks while for iPhone 6, and the waiting time is around seven to ten business days.

The main reason of the longer waiting time is that the limited supply of 5.5-inch displays. iPhone 6 plus comes with 5.5-inch screen size. The output rate of 5.5-inch is only around 50-60% whereas for 4.7-inch is about 85%. iPhone 6 comes with 4.7-inch screen size.

The low production of display is because the display is using in-cell technology, which allows the screens to be thinner and lighter by combining touch sensors to liquid crystal display, thus a separate touch-screen layer is no longer needed.

 

Foxconn struggles to deliver the iPhone 6 Demand