Word of the week: Bend-gate

Meaning - The curious phenomenon where iPhone hardware malfunctions and the phone bends when kept in one’s pocket for a long period of time.

Beckham must be reeling after news of iPhone bend-gate became public. iPhone 6 Plus can bend it and how! Forget Watergate or Snoopgate, bend-gate is the new media baby — twitterstorms, spoof-ads, viral videos and outrageous memes — it has all the makings of a successful scandal.

Apple, the messiah of tech-lovers that lords over other consumer electronics companies, is now at the receiving end of ire for design flaws in iPhone 6 Plus. Even as Tim Cook and team rush to convince the world that bend-gate wouldn’t cause any performance issues, one can only imagine Steve Jobs bending in his grave in fury at the underperformance of Apple’s new products.