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Samsung Galaxy Fold Durability Test! - Is it STILL fragile?!

Feb 27, 2020
The Galaxy Fold is an ambitious new vision of what smartphones can do and what they can look like today. Let's see what the Galaxy Fold is made of, both physically and metaphorically. This is a new sealed retail Korean version of the Galaxy Fold version. 2, since version 1 never made it to the Public Market, maybe if we've gone back far enough in the wrong direction we'll be able to connect it to two phones instead of just one, you never know unless you try, let's get started right away. The box of this phone of the future has many warnings for us.
samsung galaxy fold durability test   is it still fragile
Avoid pressing too hard on the screen, just touch it lightly. The phone is not waterproof or dustproof and do not allow foreign objects to enter. Also do not connect anything to the main connector. screen without screen protectors and keep the

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away from objects affected by magnets like credit cards, those all seem like pretty big problems to me. Cell phones are possibly some of the most accidentally abused pieces of technology on the planet and Samsung tells us so. don't touch it too hard, it doesn't induce much confidence before starting the first

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, let's see what's inside the box under the phone stand, we have a note written in what appears to be Korean, Google translate on my Galaxy S8 Plus shows that it is another small advertising paragraph.
samsung galaxy fold durability test   is it still fragile

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For the phone, the Galaxy Fold also comes with a case, a very thin layer of carbon fiber material that simply snaps onto each half of the phone. I guess any protection is good protection and below we have the Galaxy wireless earbuds and the regular USBC charger. Go back to the fold from the beginning, this definitely feels good, it feels solid, well designed and very well planned, even without folding it, but there is a visible crease running down the center of the screen, it's not as visible when you rotate the screen . on, but it's definitely

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there now, this is only the second foldable smartphone I've come across in real life, but folding it is definitely the better feeling of the two, the hinge makes the phone feel like it folds easy and gently, and then gently.
samsung galaxy fold durability test   is it still fragile
It clicks into the closed position and stays closed with its magnets and does all of this very smoothly when folding the hinged Royal Flex. The foldable phone I

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ed previously was more of a spring that always wanted to stay in the open position and didn't want to bend of its own volition, the Galaxy Fold feels much more natural, honestly if this phone survives the

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even I might change it as my daily driver. It feels pretty amazing. The fold also has a much smaller profile than the foldable stack, the Royal Flex cake seen here and is a much-loved condition, it has a much larger footprint than the Galaxy Fold when open and when closed, in fact, The closed Flex Pie is as big as the Galaxy Fold. is when it's open and they both have some very strong magnets inside, so you know, the form factor when you talk about bones, I think the Galaxy Fold stands out, its smaller design makes it look more like a phone and the flexible cake.
samsung galaxy fold durability test   is it still fragile
It's more of a foldable tablet, the Galaxy Fold is a functional front display and you can control the entire phone from here. I can activate the front camera and then open the phone to switch to the internal screen and smoothly switch to the internal front. in front of the camera at the same time, this thing has six cameras in total, which we'll get to in just a second, this thing is incredibly futuristic, it doesn't register that the phone is closing until it actually closes and then I can go back to using that front screen like a normal phone if you wanted to, it's time to start seeing what this fold is made of.
My higher hardness picks can numerically differentiate between different minerals and materials. Plastic scratches at a level three. Glass scratches at level 5 or 6 and Sapphire would be scratched at level 8 or 9. This front screen is 4.6 inches with a resolution of 720p and starts scratching at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 6. seven, pretty normal for a smartphone, although this phone is not normal at all. Mosey on the internal screen, this thing is much larger at 7.3 inches with all the warnings from Samsung about the internal screen and the previous recall due to the fragility of the screen, we knew this was coming but we

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see scratches on a level 2 with deeper grooves on a level 3 just hurts a little, the Galaxy Fold has a screen hardness comparable to Plato's soggy bread or a two thousand dollar stick of gum, even my fingernail can cause considerable damage to the screen , since we knew that the screen would need to be manufactured. soft plastic as the glass doesn't bend too well, but it's still unfortunate that there's no way to safely add a screen protector, you might be wondering, but what happens if dirt or sand gets on my pocket get caught between the two halves of the phone when it is closed, that will not damage the screen and definitely, if the grain of sand or the piece of dirt is big enough, it will definitely leave an indentation on each side of the screen, there is a small space between the two halves so that dust and dirt could get out, but that same space could also allow things to slide, so if you get this phone, it might be a good idea to vacuum your pockets every morning before you put it on. the pants.
Samsung said that this phone is not dust resistant. whatever and I believe them and you believe them, but I don't think the dust believes them, the more it will follow its rules, so let's see what happens if you take this phone to the beach, the phone closes well and there is enough space between the two halves to make this the most expensive salt shaker in the world and somehow, because it has dust on the top of the screen, there is no sand permanently grinding inside the hinge of the phone, which is unfortunate, the screen has Some new minor scratches and nicks from Nick, but it's still surprising how quickly the dust got into the phone.
I understand it was a lot of small rocks, but still the phone has only been alive for about five minutes. I thought the newly added hinged lips were supposed to help keep dust out and they don't seem to work too well, Samsung says they mimic the precision of watch mechanics with lots of small gears inside for smooth articulation. Those internal gears definitely need more protection from dust and dirt than they have now. We'll take a closer look at how they work. the hinge works from the inside during disassembly the frame of the Galaxy Fold is made of metal along with the power button and the volume control both of metal on the top of the phone we find a hole for the microphone and a speaker grill and This is where we see the unfortunate gravity of soft screens.
Did you catch that? Let's rewind a little and look at that again as I turn the phone, the tip of my Razor catches the raised edge around the edge of the dynamic AMOLED display and pops the pixels like a marshmallow on a roasting stick literally kills an entire line of pixels on the Galaxy screen, bend one wrong move, one small accident and now the entire top section of my phone has dead pixels and touch sensitivity, everything has gone crazy all because of that little puncture, this would never happen inside a phone normal and now the full screen doesn't even want to turn on half the time and we haven't even gotten to the container test yet.
I'm not a big fan. of this new development, let's move on anyway, the Galaxy Fold has a SIM card tray but no expandable memory, at least this tray has a rubber ring to keep dust out, if only the rest of the phone had the same feature on the bottom of the phone. it has USBC and no headphone jack, but since Samsung included a pair of wireless headphones in the box, I'm pretty okay with that, the central hinged spine of the Galaxy Fold is made of metal. It's also interesting to note that Samsung has carved its logo and small reflective letters embedded inside each of the small slots, this usually looks great for the first year or so and then the letters fall off.
We've seen it happen on some of the old school Nexus phones. The back panel is made of glass. It's good, it makes sense that a phone priced at two thousand dollars is made of glass, the raised front lip around the edges of the inner screen is made of plastic. We call this lip Marquez's fault because it is Marquez's fault if we break through. On the back we have the triple camera lens set up and it is covered with glass, the 16-megapixel wide-angle camera on the top, the 12-megapixel regular camera in the center and the 12-megapixel telephoto zoom camera on the back. bottom and then here in the front. closed foam side, the outer 10 megapixel selfie camera is also protected by glass along with the metal earpiece grill and then when you open the phone to the internal cameras, the screen still does not want to work at this moment we have another selfie 10 megapixels. camera and an 8-megapixel depth sensor for a total of six cameras and a phone, although Samsung has a very strict rule against sticking screen protectors to the screen, sticking things to the back is actually fine.
Shout out to dbrand's latest limited edition robot skin. I have a pretty awesome and eye-catching design that proves that you can look amazing on the outside even if you're a little dead on the inside. I will leave a link in the description so you can see what your phone looks like with the robot installed and thanks to dbrand for sponsoring this video, the screen is still a little delicate, it doesn't turn on sometimes and it doesn't feel touchable other times, that small touch really caused some unfortunate damage. I don't think the lighter is going to make things better, but with the semi-dead screen and a hinge that sounds like a pepper mill.
I don't think we have much left to lose after about seven seconds. I can see the pixels turn white and start to burn, but as soon as I remove the lighter they completely recover. Interestingly, the plastic on top of the screen doesn't bubble or melt like we saw on the flexible screen watch or some of the other plastic screen devices we've tested. I burned the screen again for about 10 more seconds and it still didn't get damaged. the plastic only the inner pixels, close the phone and turn it to check the front screen, it lasted a little longer, 15 seconds, with the heat of my lighter glass, it absorbs some of the heat before it reaches the pixels, now you can increase that freshness A holiday fact: the screen is now fully recovered for the container test in perfect impeccable condition, closed in the factory and folded by robots.
Samsung's hinge is rated at over 200,000 volts, which means that if the fold bends and becomes absurd 200 times a day, it will still last you almost three years in a non-pristine environment, of course, and a contact with a tablespoon of dirt, it lasts about 20 folds before the hinge starts to sound like a crumpled bag of chips, but let's say we accidentally folded the phone wrong on purpose. direction, we already know that the Royal Flex purchase survived for a while even after the hinge broke, so let's see what happens with the Galaxy Fold, I flip the phone to fold it back and apply a little Force.
Surprisingly the track remains intact, this is kind of a Big Surprise, the last foldable phone broke back quite easily and even the iPad Pro broke easier than this Samsung Galaxy Fold. It may have some obvious weak points with the hinged hinge definitely not one of them, the whole phone still folds in the right direction but when folded back incorrectly all I get is a smooth curve but no permanent damage , the hinge is as strong as Samsung's normal non-folding flagships. It's pretty amazing, the antenna line is cracking along the frame, but the hinge itself is still 100 functional and the device.
It's still in one piece, this is difficult, how should we classify the Galaxy Fold? The body of the phone is still intact, but the internal screen is basically unusable due to that accidental bump I did earlier. Should we say that the Galaxy Fold passes the

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test? failed, let me know in the comments personally. I think that when Samsung figures out how to seal the hinge from dust and finds a way to allow screen protection, this foldable phone format will be a winner. Do you ever see yourself using a flip phone? that subscribe button. I'll be here testing Samsung's upcoming foldable phone too and don't forget to check out dbrand's robot skin with the link in the description.
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