While 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.
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.
>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.
His videos of scratching up phones with razor knifes and breaking them and such get views. It's a bit of a shame, because his other content is actually pretty good, but he built his channel doing those sorts of videos and they continue to pay the bills.
The knife test is basically ASMR horror at this point, but was originally to identify plastic vs metal in frames and buttons, and also plastic vs glass on cam lenses.
The lighter test was originally to identify lcd vs led as they behave differently, but afaik nobody is even doing lcd anymore...
The 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.
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 33.1 ms ] threadI 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.
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
His videos of scratching up phones with razor knifes and breaking them and such get views. It's a bit of a shame, because his other content is actually pretty good, but he built his channel doing those sorts of videos and they continue to pay the bills.
The lighter test was originally to identify lcd vs led as they behave differently, but afaik nobody is even doing lcd anymore...