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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test

by akersten on 10/14/25, 8:59 PM with 25 comments

• by kristianp on 10/15/25, 12:05 AM

  The 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

  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

• by sgc on 10/14/25, 10:44 PM

  Link to the original video from the guy who actually tested it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uS90jakOuw

• by snailmailman on 10/14/25, 11:47 PM

  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.

• by nunez on 10/15/25, 1:44 AM

  Wow; this is a horrible look for Google. Folded backwards like paper.

• by exabrial on 10/15/25, 4:04 AM

  Where can I place a prop bet that Pixel Fold 10 will soon be banned on airplanes?

• by throw-10-13 on 10/15/25, 8:27 AM

  Still blows my mind that we allow LiPo's on planes.

• by hexasquid on 10/15/25, 3:45 AM

  "You're folding it wrong"