Samsung, being the pioneer of foldable smartphones, had a clean record of its foldables surviving being bent the wrong way. Emphasis on had, because the latest, being the Galaxy Z TriFold, is the first to have not survived. Or more specifically, the first to buckle under the extreme JerryRigEverything bend test.
And it’s not just the hinge of the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold that succumbed to pressure either. After the usual scratch and dust tests for foldables, Zack Nelson, the person who runs the JerryRigEverything channel, thought to “try to snap just one corner off first”. While it did not literally snap off, one corner flexed and stayed bent, right around the antenna line.
Then came the bend test proper, with, as the title suggests, the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold going out with a snap. Once again the point of failure is another antenna line rather than any of the hinges. Ultimately, the extremely thin frame itself could not take the extreme abuse.
With the frame giving way, the screen is ultimately unable to escape the collateral damage. And as it was reported before, damaging this will cost you in repairs money that’s enough to buy another phone. But at the very least, the battery of the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold did not go up in flames.
(Source: JerryRigEverything / YouTube)
