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Durability is one of the main talking points when it comes to foldable devices. We’re all a little shell-shocked from first-gen foldable phones being destroyed by grains of sand. The latest Samsung Galaxy book-style foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 6 (Review), just went through a durability test, and it revealed something worrying about the hinge.
If you’re interested in picking up the new Galaxy Z Fold 6, then you’re in for a treat. It seems that it’s more worth it to upgrade if you’re using a Galaxy Z Fold 4 or Galaxy Z Fold 3. It shares many similarities with the Galaxy Z Fold 5 in terms of design. The phone starts at $1,899, which is $100 more than last year. You can knock that price down considerably with the proper trade-in. Check out the links below if you want to put in your order.
The Galaxy Z Fold 6 goes through a durability test
We all saw this coming. Zack Nelson, owner of the popular YouTube channel JerryRigEverything, has put the new foldable phone through his famous durability test. We all know how these tests go: he scratches the exterior, scratches the screens, runs the screens under his lighter, and bends them.
The results are all what you’d expect. The inner screen scratches at a level 2, the outer screen scratches at a level 6 (yes, we know the rest of that line), and they both lasted the expected amount of time under the lighter.
As for the bend test, this phone also survived. It locked out without any damage to the device. So, we can chalk this up as another victory for Samsung.
But, the test revealed something about the hinge
The Galaxy Z Fold 6 survived, but not quite with flying colors. As part of the durability test, Zack takes a handful of sand and tosses it onto the phone. He then works the sand into the phone to see if there are any catastrophic failures. There weren’t any. However, he did an impromptu teardown of the phone and found out something a little worrying.
Sand was able to make it into the hinge. That’s not really the bad part. The bad part is that there seemed to be more sand in the hinge than in previous models. If this is true then it might point to Samsung cutting corners with this phone’s build. Hopefully, that’s not the case. Remember, this phone costs $100 more than last year’s model.