Foldable phone owners probably remember the first few times they folded and unfolded their devices. I first encountered them during MWC 2019, when I was among the limited number of journalists who were allowed to be the first to destroy the Huawei Mate X presented the day before. The sensations were indescribable. It seemed like you were the Hulk, who accidentally miscalculated the strength and broke the phone in half. He then crunched so much that the combination of this fact and the understanding that there are only a few such phones in the world evoked strong emotions. But time passes, and folding beds gradually become massive and cease to cause that thrill. But how strong are they really?
Foldable phones are stronger than they look
How reliable is a foldable phone
Now, many people still have the feeling that every time the phone is folded, it will not decompose. However, Samsung guarantees that its clamshells can be folded over 200,000 times over the life of the phone. The other day the author of the YouTube channel Mrkeybrd decided to find outHow many times can the Galaxy Z Flip 3 be folded before it breaks. It was also interesting how it ended up breaking. But more on that below.
Hundreds of thousands of foldings were recorded by a special device.
How many times can you fold a foldable phone
It turns out that Samsung played it safe in its forecasts. In fact Galaxy Z Flip 3 withstood over 418,500 foldsbefore it broke. You might think that the glass will fail, but it is not. First of all, the folding mechanism broke (it stopped locking in extreme positions), which in the future can be strengthened and make the phone almost eternal. The first signs that something was wrong with the phone appeared after 325,000 folds. But after that, he withstood almost 100,000 more repetitions of this procedure. Either way, both numbers are well above what Samsung promises.
How quickly a folding smartphone breaks
If it’s hard to imagine how much it is, then suffice it to say that if you open your phone 100 times every day without exception, then you will reach this mark in about eleven and a half years old. It is unlikely that you will use the phone for so long.
Test, which aired live on YouTube for five days, had people take turns folding and unfolding their phone without interruption. The counting device was attached to the Z Flip 3 and added one every time the phone was folded and unfolded. This counter was visible on the screen during the entire broadcast.
It is noteworthy that such tests are not carried out in real conditions, as some viewers have noted. The fact remains that the phone stayed warm for most of the test, while real-world usage would involve a lot more temperature fluctuations. We use the phone in winter, we do not always open it smoothly and drop it from time to time. Therefore, the load on the hinge will be higher. But even the promised 200,000 folds are still about five years of service when folded 100 times a day. It is not known how the glass will behave in real operation, but the fact that it lasted longer than the hinge suggests that you should not worry about it either.
Which foldable phone will last the longest
Since the main screen of the Z Flip 3 folds and unfolds much more often due to its design, logic dictates that this phone will have a shorter lifespan. Fold can be laid out much less often, so it should last longer. And Flip unfolds for each reading of the message.
This design will unfold less often than a flip, and therefore will last longer.
The test results and this article itself do not encourage you to buy a foldable phone. Finally they are still expensive, and recently, due to difficulties with supplies, even unreasonably expensive. On the other hand, if you want to buy something that is still out of the ordinary, there is no better option for you. I myself used the foldable Huawei P50 Pocket and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 for some time. Both of them aroused genuine interest in my environment, including both people I know and passers-by on the street. You won’t achieve this effect with any iPhone 13 Pro Max. And now you know that this phone is really reliable.
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