The Korean Tech-IT Youtubeur has embarked on the unprecedented challenge of Fold by hand the new Galaxy Z Fold 7 more than 200,000 times To check the promise of Samsung. Unlike automated tests, this approach faithfully reproduces daily use with its variations in strength and angle. For a user who folds his phone 50 times a day, this represents 11 years of intensive use.
From 75,000 folds, this is the drama
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The smartphone shows its first weaknesses much earlier than expected. From 6,000 folds, 4 months of intensive use, the Z Fold 7 undergoes its first forced restart. Well after we are not going to lie, it is unlikely to never restart your smartphone thinking for 4 months, especially by performing compulsory restart updates. This dysfunction then reproduces approximately every 10,000 manipulations.
At 46,000 folds, the hinge begins to cring according to the Youtubeur. At 75,000, a mysterious black liquid escapes from the mechanism before disappearingwhich still becomes quite worrying. But It is at 175,000 folding that the situation really deteriorates with the entire audio system that broke down. Tech-IT also notes that the hinge paradoxically more flexible, but loses elasticity, the characteristic resistance of the new mechanism that has disappeared.
We are far from the 500,000 all the same
These failures all occur before even reaching 200,000 folds, the resistance limit of the old Z Fold models. If Samsung actually claims 500,000 folds under conditions ideal for this seventh generation, Users could encounter multiple problems long before reaching this theoretical limit.
For a smartphone at nearly 2000 euros, these results question long -term reliability. The manufacturer’s guarantees generally cover these failures, but the user experience could prove to be frustrating. Our advice would be Play caution by avoiding playing with the mechanism for no reason.
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