{"id":225366,"date":"2025-10-15T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225366\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:29:08","slug":"googles-pixel-10-pro-fold-is-the-first-to-go-up-in-smoke-during-a-bend-test-jerryrigeverything-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225366\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first to \u2018go up in smoke during a bend test,\u2019 JerryRigEverything says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google might have yet another Pixel with a battery problem, and this time, affecting the brand new Pixel 10 Pro Fold. In a video published today<\/a>, YouTuber JerryRigEverything, aka Zack Nelson, subjected the foldable to his usual durability tests, but as he\u2019s filming his bend test \u2014 after having already broken the phone open \u2014 the battery expands, appears to overheat, emits enough smoke to set off a nearby fire alarm, and ultimately ends up as a charred wreckage on his testing table.<\/p>\n

To be fair, Nelson puts an extraordinary amount of stress on the phone. He originally breaks open the phone by bending it backwards while the phone is fully unfolded, and the battery doesn\u2019t swell up until he exerts a lot of force on the broken part of the phone in such a way that he\u2019s essentially folding the screen behind itself.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not a scenario any normal person is going to encounter day to day. But it\u2019s still unusual even given the extreme circumstances, according to Nelson. He says he hasn\u2019t seen anything like it during prior tests.<\/p>\n

\u201cSurprisingly, in the decade that I\u2019ve been durability-testing phones, I have never had a smartphone explode before,\u201d Nelson says. \u201cThe Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first phone to go up in smoke.\u201d And while he notes that this is an \u201cextreme test,\u201d he adds that \u201cI\u2019ve also subjected every mainstream smartphone made in the past 10 years to these exact same tests. And this is the first time I\u2019ve ever had one fail so spectacularly to the point where my fire alarm is going off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs dramatic as a battery fire is, we don\u2019t think this is necessarily a sign that something is wrong with the Pixel 10 Pro Fold design,\u201d iFixit\u2019s Elizabeth Chamberlain tells The Verge. \u201cThe possibility of thermal runaway is just a reality of Li-ion batteries. Looks like Zack probably didn\u2019t discharge the battery before opening up the phone (most new phones have 60%+ charge out of the box). We usually recommend discharging a battery below 25%, but with the extreme stresses Zack places on devices, that may even be too high.<\/p>\n

Chamberlain adds that \u201cthermal runaway is basically a local short circuit, and it is most likely to happen when you break through the insulating layers of a jelly roll-style battery.\u201d She also pointed to a post<\/a> and a video<\/a> from iFixit about batteries catching fire.<\/p>\n

Nelson put the Pixel 10 Pro Fold\u2019s IP68 dust resistance to the test, too. While Google has called the phone its \u201cmost durable foldable yet\u201d<\/a> and highlighted the benefits of the phone\u2019s gearless hinge<\/a>, Nelson pours some dust right onto the hinge and opens and closes the phone, resulting in some sickening crunches as dust gets stuck inside. \u201cThis is kind of embarrassing,\u201d Nelson says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google might have yet another Pixel with a battery problem, and this time, affecting the brand new Pixel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6563,168,2635,165,3,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-225366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-foldable-phones","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-pixel","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}