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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test
- sgc 1y agoLink to the original video from the guy who actually tested it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uS90jakOuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uS90jakOuw
- chiph 1y agoThere's nothing like getting your product problem exposed on a channel with 9+ million subscribers...
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoThey are shipping a "flagship" phone with a new SoC which wouldn't have been competitive three years ago, I'm not convinced this will meaningfully impact their sales number.
- dlahoda 1y agoi have not bought pixel 9 because of author tests for example. i had samsung fold 3, and knew that bend out tests are very very important. went with samsung fold 6, i failed to bend at all
- recursivecaveat 1y ago7:20 for anyone who just wants to see the failure. I have to respect someone committed to the content: Not only does he flip it with his bare hands while it's still sizzling, he makes sure to hover over it while the plume of battery smoke wafts up lol.
- xarope 1y agoscratches aluminium with knife - me: "stop, stop!" pours dirt and makes crunchy hinge noises - me: "stop, stop!" holds lighter to screens - me: "stop, stop!" bends phone backwards, it breaks at the antenna line - me: "stop, stop!" smoke comes out - me: "pretty... I wonder when the smoke detector is going to... ah about 20s"
- snailmailman 1y agoWhile his durability test seemed quite extreme, including things like holding a lighter to the display, the test that made it explode was basically “bend it past 180 degrees like a 2-in-1 laptop” I haven’t personally used a folding phone, but he was able to break it with his bare hands. I’d expect that from a laptop, but less so from a phone. I put my laptop in a padded laptop bag. I put my phone in my pocket, and sometimes sit on it without issues. JerryRigEverything mentioned the previous pixel folds all broke in the same test in the same spot, along the antenna. It’s a crazy contrast to Apple, considering how much Apple advertised “titanium” in their phones.
- throw-10-13 1y agoWatch his test of the new apple phones, he tortures the device far beyond this test and it still works. A google pixel going up in smoke because you bent it by hand is completely unacceptable.
- kristianp 1y agoThe Samsung Z Fold 7 fares better. He's able to bend it back, but unable to cause it to crack by bending it backwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hgg4YEdPak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hgg4YEdPak Not sure if I see the point of using a craft knife to scratch the case though. Nor the point of using a lighter to kill pixels on the screen. More for the sheer horror of it than anything. The Iphone air couldn't be broken by hand either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ56ve39l2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ56ve39l2I
- anshumankmr 1y agoA cheap lighter if it cracks could potentially cause a small fire. But still it would be astronomically unlikely that your phone is also present with it and then even more unlikely it burns long enough to cause damage without one stopping it.
- throw-10-13 1y agoThe point is a destructive test to failure. Watch the new iphone tests and you will see the point. The phone still works at the end.
- avian 1y ago> The point is a destructive test to failure. If that's the point, just chuck the thing into a boiling vat of acid and declare with a condescending voice "whoops, looks like they still haven't quite managed that boiling vat of acid problem despite knowing I test this on every new model". I'm sure that will get those likes and subscribes. Or are people actually putting a lighter to the phone's screen during day-to-day use so that it matters how many seconds it survives?
- throw-10-13 1y agocomparing hand bending a phone and having it catch fire to chucking a phone into a boiling vat of acid is certainly reasonable...
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- nunez 1y agoWow; this is a horrible look for Google. Folded backwards like paper.
- hexasquid 1y ago"You're folding it wrong"
- exabrial 1y agoWhere can I place a prop bet that Pixel Fold 10 will soon be banned on airplanes?
- throw-10-13 1y agoStill blows my mind that we allow LiPo's on planes.
- delfinom 1y agoThe entire world would come to a stop if you could no longer transport LiPos on a plane. International travel will no longer be possible as smartphones are necessary for everything these days.
- vorpalhex 1y agoI suspect we aren't too far from the FAA wanting to certify every battery bank. I don't blame them either.