- A South Korean YouTuber is folding and unfolding the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 occasions in an excessive sturdiness check
- The check is, on the time of writing, nonetheless being livestreamed on YouTube
- The cellphone has survived greater than 130,000 near-consecutive folds
A South Korean tech YouTuber has taken on the problem of unfolding and folding the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 200,000 occasions, placing Samsung’s newest flagship foldable via an excessive sturdiness check.
YouTube channel Tech It is, on the time of writing, nonetheless streaming the experimental check, marking attention-grabbing developments as they go.
At 6,000 fold-unfold cycles, the cellphone suffered a reboot error, probably overwhelmed by the fixed switching between its folded and unfolded states.
At 46,000 cycles, the hinge started to creak – not encouraging at such a low variety of folds, however understand that this check is the furthest doable factor from on a regular basis use.
At 75,000 cycles, textual content overlaid on the display says an “unidentified liquid” started to leak from the hinge. Once more, that is intriguing, however shouldn’t be trigger for alarm except you additionally plan to place your Galaxy Z Fold 7 via a number of thousand folds consecutively.
On the time of writing, the livestream has been operating for 9 hours, with simply over 137,000 fold-unfold cycles registered. That implies a mean tempo of round 4 cycles per second, although the present tempo appears to have slowed to round 2.5 cycles per second.
At their present tempo, and on the time of publishing, Tech It should full their mission in round seven hours.
Do you have to take note of sturdiness checks?
As we beforehand reported, Samsung claims the Galaxy Z Fold 7 can stand up to 500,000 folds – assuming you unfold your cellphone 50 occasions a day, that’s round 27 years of every day utilization.
Nonetheless, there’s no really helpful method to put this declare to the check – it’s not sensible, or smart, for the on a regular basis person to rely and log every time they unfold their cellphone.
Right here at TechRadar, we don’t check for sturdiness – although cellphone makers are all the time bettering the resilience and longevity of their gadgets, there’s merely no goal method to check most sturdiness claims.
Even quantifiable limits, like the five hundred,000 fold promise made by Samsung, can depend on numerous components like temperature, frequency of use, or manufacturing inconsistencies.
Nonetheless, there may be some worth in checks like this – within the newest notorious bend check from YouTuber Jerry Rig Every part, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 refused to interrupt in half – that is about as blunt a measurement as you may probably take, however nonetheless noteworthy for a hinged gadget.
So whereas these checks are enjoyable and crowd pleasing, remember to take a look at our guides to the perfect folding telephones and the perfect Samsung telephones to learn the way these handsets carry out in real-world utilization.
