2023-08-09 15:53:06
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5, tested by a Polish YouTuber to test the reliability of the device’s clamshell system, broke after 400,000 openings and closings.
It’s an original challenge, to say the least, which has just been completed. Since August 2, Mrkeybrd, a Polish youtuber with 132,000 subscribers, has been conducting an experiment: folding and unfolding by hand, non-stop, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and the Motorala Razr 40 Plus Ultra, two smartphones whose characteristic is to be clamshell models. Objective: to ensure that the tests carried out by the manufacturers to test the folding and unfolding system of the devices were carried out under real conditions.
Between August 2 and this Wednesday August 9, the Mrkeybrd channel therefore broadcast a livestream featuring the two phones folded and unfolded permanently by several volunteer testers. This at different speeds and more or less strongly in order to simulate daily use.
At the end of these seven days of testing, Samsung’s flip smartphone gave up the ghost after 401,146 folding and unfolding cycles, reports The Verge in an article. In detail, the South Korean manufacturer’s terminal survived twice as many folding cycles as the Motorola Razr 40 Plus Ultra, which died after 126,266 opening and closing cycles.
More than 10 years of use for the Galaxy Z Flip 5
Samsung’s foldable phone didn’t fail all at once. After around 223,000 bends, the phone’s hinge proved to be defective, details The Verge. Before Mrkeybrd officially ended the test, the phone, in poor condition, opened on its own. However, the Z Flip 5 remained functional until it reached 400,000 openings and closings.
Subsequently submerged in water and covered in flour, the hinge of the terminal ended up badly degraded until Mrkeybrd terminated the experiment after a pink line appeared on the right side of the screen.
According to The Verge, the fact that Samsung’s device can survive over 400,000 foldings and unfoldings means that the phone should still be functional after more than 10 years of use at around 100 unfoldings and foldings per day. Motorola’s Razr fared much worse. At the same daily frequency of openings and closings, it would only last three and a half years. Results to be taken with a grain of salt, however, since the experiment conducted by Mrkeybrd has no scientific value.
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