{"id":372687,"date":"2025-12-26T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372687\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:21:07","slug":"watch-samsungs-trifold-score-an-unfortunate-first-in-this-durability-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372687\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Samsung’s TriFold score an unfortunate first in this durability test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zack Nelson\u2019s Christmas gift to his 9.7 million YouTube subscribers was a durability test of Samsung\u2019s TriFold smartphone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery so often there\u2019s a piece of technology that lands on my desk that almost makes me feel bad for what\u2019s about to happen \u2026 almost,\u201d the guy behind JerryRigEverything says at the start of the test, leaving you with a strong feeling that it will not end well for Samsung\u2019s first-ever phone with not one but two hinges.<\/p>\n

Anyone who\u2019s already witnessed one of Nelson\u2019s durability tests knows that it involves lots of scratching and plenty of scraping. Phones will also have handfuls of grit poured over them, and a naked flame held to their displays.<\/p>\n

Nelson begins the video by showing the list of warnings that appear on the phone\u2019s display when you first power it up. Don\u2019t remove the protective film on the main display, one of them says, while another points to the phone\u2019s inability to handle small particles like sand. It also makes clear that when folding the device, you should \u201calways start with the panel that has no camera,\u201d as \u201cstarting with the panel that has cameras can damage your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, it seems like a rather delicate device, and before Nelson has even brought out his first metal scraper, you have a strong feeling that you\u2019re about to witness a horror show.<\/p>\n

The TriFold\u2019s soft flexible inner display, which opens to a huge 10 inches, doesn\u2019t take kindly to being pressed with a hard pointy object, but that\u2019s the same with all foldable screens. They\u2019re just too soft to avoid damage if you treat them harshly.<\/p>\n

Then in comes the grit. A lot of it. Nelson acknowledges that it\u2019s a ridiculous amount, but it\u2019s still awful listening to the crunching sounds as the phone\u2019s hinges fail to cope with all of that dirt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would be very nervous to ever set the TriFold down on a non-pristine surface,\u201d Nelson comments.<\/p>\n

And then for the infamous bend test, where the YouTuber uses his bare hands to flex the phone in a bid to learn more about its structural integrity. Within a second or two of feeling the force, the TriFold\u2019s screen fizzles, though the device at least manages to stay in one piece.<\/p>\n

Nelson notes that the TriFold has become \u201cthe first Samsung ever to kick the bucket during my bend test,\u201d before concluding: \u201cIf you\u2019re going to treat the TriFold nicely, it\u2019s probably the coolest phone on the planet. But if you\u2019re the kind of person who\u2019s loose and carefree with your hardware, this probably isn\u2019t the phone for you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zack Nelson\u2019s Christmas gift to his 9.7 million YouTube subscribers was a durability test of Samsung\u2019s TriFold smartphone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,63,213,7466,19590,1047,105,201525],"class_list":{"0":"post-372687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-jerryrigeverything","12":"tag-phones","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-trifold"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}