YouTuber subjects the Galaxy Z Flip 5 to a week of continuous folding to see when it breaks - The Verge

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• housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While I am impressed, I still would never actually buy a folding phone.

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  • skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I bought one about a year ago expecting the gimmick to get tiresome but honestly I love it. I bought one a couple models old so it didn't even cost me that much, I picked up a Z Fold 2 around when they were releasing the Z Fold 4, I think. So far it's been great and I absolutely love being able to fold the screen open for gaming or for reading. The single front screen is a bit skinny but you get used to it.

    I've read about 3x more books since I got it than I used to, and emulator gaming is getting new life (as well as native games like Polytopia or Slay The Spire). I honestly recommend them, which I didn't think I'd find myself doing.

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  • transistor@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t see myself buying one either. I much prefer the current form factor.

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  • Not_mikey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    May I ask why, is it just price?

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    • housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep, I cannot justify the price. If it were available on lower end devices I wouldn’t do it even then because the build quality would be shit.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why not?

    I love mine, mainly because it’s so small when folded; it’s like in the œlden days, when small was cool and you could actually fit your phone in your pocket without cargo pants. Folded, it’s more robust than a candybar phone, and I don’t worry at all about sitting on it.

    I look forward to better use of the 45° format, and standardization of the API for the cover screen (for more apps).

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• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not a matter of if, but when it will break.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  If you’re wondering how many times Samsung’s latest foldable flip phone, the Galaxy Z Flip 5, might survive when subjected to the stresses and strains of the real world, YouTuber Mrkeybrd has an answer for you: 401,146.

  Between August 2nd and today, his channel has run a livestream of the phone being continuously folded and unfolded by a series of testers.

  The experiment subjected the phones to a large amount of variation in the speed and force with which they were folded and unfolded, which arguably reflects the kinds of stresses actual people, rather than machines, will put the phone under.

  But the Flip 5 appeared to be broadly usable until the 400,000 mark, when it was submerged in water and covered in flour and eggs.

  Its hinge appeared to grow increasingly unusable after that point, until the YouTuber called an end to the experiment when a pink line was visible running down the right-hand side of the screen.

  In a similar test last year, Mrkeybrd folded and unfolded the Galaxy Z Flip 3 418,500 times before calling the experiment to an end.

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  I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Something tells me dunking it in water egg flour mixture is not normal wear and tear.

  So are they going to start over and just flip it open and close like a normal human being or give up after few days and chuck it out of an airplane at 30k feet?

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The hinge seemed to get unusable after it was doused with eggs and flour? I wonder why…

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