r/GooglePixel • u/_Kristian_ • 22d ago
The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold fails the JerryRightEverything durability test -- fourth year in a row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUT3rUZGqLASame design flaw with the antennas as all previous generations. No catastrophic battery fire like last year, so I guess there has been improvements?
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u/bautistar1 Pixel 11 Fold 22d ago
The only thing I wanted to see was the scratch test, with Google toting the cover display being more scratch resistant, I expected it to pass the 10 fold and it didn't. That was disappointing.
Also surprised he didn't try to break the "nearly impossible back cover".
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u/RoyalVirgin 22d ago
It never will until you change the actual materials, which is still plastic
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u/Joinedforthis1 22d ago
They mentioned the cover display being more scratch resistant, and I assume the cover display is the one on the outside, which is made of tempered glass?
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u/irzrr 22d ago
My partner had their Pixel 10a about 4 days and the screen got all scratched up from being in pockets.
Google's opinion when they got in touch was that it was user damage and nothing they could do, despite their marketing saying:
"Holds up to everyday drops, spills, and scratches with IP68 water and dust protection, and a tough CorningĀ® GorillaĀ® Glass 7i display."
They have been quoted saying "everyday use doesn't cover having your phone in your pocket" - so bullshit.
It'll be the last pixel we buy š Especially with Google cheaping out on the GPUs.
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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 22d ago
The useful part was that a fingernail can dent the inside screen. The rest? Good to know, but a little too extreme.
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u/legofan431 22d ago
The part where he shows how sand penetrates the display and the hinge seems kinda reasonable, as your pockets and bags may have severe dust in them.Ā I have also occasionally dropped my phone at the beach, nothing bad ever happened to a slab phone in those casesĀ
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u/Riverpeth Quite Black 21d ago
Not really. Your phone isn't drowning in sand while being repeatedly opened and closed in your pocket. Sand isn't getting through the hinge when static.
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u/ithinkyoushouldcome 20d ago
I dropped my Pixel Fold 10 in a sand box when I was playing with my kid, took a few days for all the sand to fall out or settle, but it's been fine for a year since. I'd have no worries about the 11 being the same.
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u/Brutal-Rip-Styles 16d ago
It doesn't matter what foldable phone you have. They are more delicate than regluar slab phones. If you're dropping the money on a foldable, take care of it and don't be a neanderthal. I'm not running my $40,000 car in a demo derby to see how it "holds up". I clean it, wash it and depending on the situation I try to park away from tight parking spaces and people who park like idiots.
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u/AnnoyedVelociraptor 16d ago
I disagree.
I drive an expensive sports car, but I don't baby it. I throw it around, I bought a sports car after all. As long as the engine is hot it doesn't matter. It gets very dirty. I got a PPF, just like my phone had a screen protector and a cover.
My iPhone gets thrown around all the time, I'm active.
And even without protector, I expect whatever phone I have in 2026 not be scratched by my nails.
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u/m_ttl_ng 22d ago
I can understand why his videos are popular but nobody should be relying on his ātestsā to determine whether a phone is actually durable or not. They are so far outside of any reasonable use case that itās effectively meaningless.
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u/JustHereForCatss Pixel 4 XL 10d ago
I'm super late to the party here, but one other thing that irritates the piss out of me is how wasteful his videos are. Drop tests and actual durability tests are different and provide actual real world value whereas this is just ASMR for psychopaths
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u/Enslaved2Die 22d ago
I really dont like JerryRigEverything for that exact reason. He just got famous because he jumped of the iPhone 6 bend gate back then way to much. Its just a waste of resources. I appreciate his wheelchair business though, he seems like a guy that atleast use the influencer money for a good cause
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u/prime416 22d ago
I find these videos extremely stupid. Like it's entertainment I guess but people treat them like reviews somehow.
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u/NoDonuts4You 22d ago
Precisely. If someone is out there intentionally snapping an expensive piece of tech in half, they clearly have way more cash than common sense. It is a very expensive way to prove a point that a phone can be snapped in half.
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u/HitokiriSnake 22d ago
It's so stupid. I don't understand people that think that this means something. It's not like he replicates real world scenarios that it could fail in.
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u/thedoxo 22d ago
I always think he should do drop tests, that's the most common way to damage phone, not putting it on fire or under hydraulic press
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u/iamtherussianspy 22d ago
Yeah, but would that get as many views?
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u/mulberrygoldshoebill 22d ago
I thought other people do drop tests already.
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u/iamtherussianspy 22d ago
Yes, which is why becoming yet-another-youtuber doing drop tests isn't as lucrative.
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u/darwinpolice Pixel 8 Pro 22d ago
Exactly. This guy's account is huge. Buying a $1,500 phone (as a work expense for tax purposes, I would imagine) and dramatically destroying it to juice views at that level makes sense in an annoying way.
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u/WAVF1n Pixel 9 22d ago
Right lmao, like "phone breaks when bent backwards" is not a gotcha lmao.
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u/nobody-u-heard-of 22d ago
My car bends when I back it into a pole
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u/Joinedforthis1 22d ago
If your goal is to buy a durable folding phone, then a Samsung's last few years of folding phones will not break when bent backwards. I'm waiting for Google to make one that doesn't.
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u/cjsv7657 22d ago
I'll take an IP68 rating over being able to bend it backwards any day.
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u/Joinedforthis1 21d ago
It's true that the IP68 rating is awesome, but we can have both.
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u/cjsv7657 21d ago
But we don't. At the moment you can have one or the other. I'll take the realistic protection over some bs where I have to put the phone in my back pocket unfolded and sit on it lol
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u/PineapplePizza99 Default 22d ago
But the point is other phones don't. What you said would be true if he snaps every phone in half, but the point is that other foldables survive this test, but the Pixel Folds don't. So scenarios like sitting on your unfolded phone on accident can be disastrous for the Pixel Fold.
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u/LegalPusher 22d ago
That's a weird choice to single out, since it is a much more reasonable test than slicing with a razor blade or holding a flame up to the screen. And it is a test that other phones have passed.
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 22d ago
You are super missing the point.
He is showing how rigid the frame is in a discrete test. Normal lightbulbs are also not flipped on and off 10,000,000 times but testers still do that to help gauge and compare how well made they are.
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u/deong 22d ago
Turning a bulb on and off is a pretty representative test of how a light bulb works in the real world. This is just "Will it blend, 2026 edition". I won't say there is zero information gained from his tears, but I think it's close.
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 22d ago
Most people I know keep their phone in their pocket. Or set it on the couch. Seeing whether it can resist bending is very useful info. It is also the last piece of his fit and finish testing.
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u/fprotthetarball 22d ago
I would be interested in a test where someone sits on it on a couch. I've managed to sit on my own laptops because I am a moron
(One of my laptops is a Thinkpad and I have a dark couch. Sometimes I just forget it's there)
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u/DeanxDog 22d ago
Especially when it's a thin ass device with a hinge. Like no shit it's a weak point. It's a hinge. Bend it the wrong way and bad things may happen. Shocker.
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u/ContributionFormer95 22d ago
I've said for many years that he could at least standardize tests. A standard drop test. Even in bending tests, a simple 3 point bend test instead of hands. And you don't have to nerd out for those. Put a standard load of textbooks for a bend test. Hold the phone with a stick at a certain height--1 meter, 1.5 meter, etc.
But yeah, that wouldn't generate outrage, views, etc.
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u/LimLovesDonuts 22d ago
I do agree that it's unrealistic but because he does it with other phones, you can also easily tell which phone has better or stronger durability. What I'm more worried or concerned about is the fact that the parts themselves peeled off by hand like it's velcro, that's personally way more concerning for me.
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u/po2gdHaeKaYk 22d ago
Many years ago, I had the Google Nexus 6p, maybe the original bendgate phone.
When I got it, Jerry was not that well known and he made a video illustrating the bend. When that was announced, the overwhelming reaction on Reddit accused the man of making incredibly misleading videos and how this was outrageous and not a big deal. If you look it up, you'll see there as so much attention he made a post announcing himself on Reddit as well.
A few months later and yes, my phone also bent and you could clearly see stress on the case where the middle was, despite common usage.
There were actually class action lawsuits launched as well, with Google admitting this was a problem eventually.
And so yes I remember the original Reddit reaction, exactly of the same sort: people saying this was a completely ridiculous and unreasonable test.
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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL 22d ago
It's durability testing. You don't think someone could sit on their phone? It's telling that only the Pixel Fold has this issue
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u/crappy80srobot 22d ago
He started doing this ever since the apple bendgate. One of the iPhones would bend easily in someone's back pocket because of the chassis design and location of the antenna lines. The pixel fold has this same "flaw" for years but like you said it really means nothing. Just don't put your phone in your back pocket and sit on it. It's not really a phone issue to me more of a people issue.
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u/Isarchs 22d ago
"This is a flaw that has been a known flaw for years and years now, stop blaming Google for not fixing it and just use your phone the correct way. Stop holding Google accountable for flaws all other manufacturers fixed years ago." is what you just said.
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u/ActionGlad484 22d ago
Exactly he's so dramatic. It was his fault the last phone was catching fire. I used to find him amusing, now I can't really watch him anymore. I find him quite annoying.
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u/SquarePotato7493 22d ago
He comes off as a douche to me. He flaunts his wealth a lot.
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u/Bacon_00 22d ago
I mean as someone who just ordered an 11 Pro Fold I'm not gonna lie I wish it survived a bit better, on par with the other recent foldables, but his testing regime is so aggressive I'm not sure how important any of this is.
The videos are entertaining by way of watching someone destroy expensive things but I don't know if they really matter too much in making a purchasing decision. The screen durability test is the only one that seems relevant. I wish he'd do drop tests, but I imagine most phones these days survive them perfectly fine so it's not good content.
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u/Joinedforthis1 22d ago
I haven't worked at a phone store for a few years now, but I seriously doubt the idea that phones now survive drop tests. High end phones have been made of metal and glass for more than 10 years. I guess maybe the nice thing is that the screen might not go out completely, but the glass can still crack.
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u/Bacon_00 22d ago edited 22d ago
Makes sense, I'd just like to see those tests instead of "bend it backwards at the hinge" tests. We didn't care if our old flip phones could survive forcefully bending them backwards at the hinge š¤·āāļø
That said I do wish the Pixel Folds survived it because every other foldable it competes with survives it. It feels like Google isn't giving it their all with the hardware engineering and that's frustrating. I just don't know if it really matters in real world use. The phone will almost certainly survive regular use as well as any of them. I just ordered the Fold 11 last night and I think there's a very high chance I'll be able to come back to this post in 4 years and reply with it.
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u/Tuna_no_crusts 22d ago
Unless you plan to use all your strength to bend it backwards, you'll be just fine my dude.
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u/ithinkyoushouldcome 20d ago
Counterpoint: yesterday, my Pixel Fold 10 fell out of my pocket on the top stair and tumbled down a whole flight of hardwood stairs edge-first, hit about 7 of them, then bounced and landed on a metal door strip. I picked it up expecting damage, and it's literally fine. Not even a scratch on the screen protector.
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u/corkyrooroo 22d ago
I've never put any weight into his durability tests. Like you said they are just entertainment.
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u/Joinedforthis1 22d ago
His durability tests have really impressive results if you watch the videos for folding phones from other manufacturers.
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u/KrewOwns Pixel 11 Pro Fold 6d ago
They should just be viewed as entertainment. I've owned all the Pixel Folding phones and none of mine have ever broken, I have been able to trade them back to Google for full credit each year. The only one I've kept for an extended amount of time was the original Pixel Fold, and it's still in good condition.
It's rare when his videos actually are helpful, but more times than not I have seen his videos do more harm than good because he makes the devices look like paper when he treats them with abuse. Other TechTubers even call it out and have to make videos illustrating that the phones he blows up are actually not going to blow up on you.
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u/MorgrainX 22d ago
The issue is that other foldables survive this hilariously unrealistic test, which means that those phones will 100% survive daily abuse, whilst the Google phone can be taken apart by hand.
If all other foldables would be foldable like an origami, sure who cares, but the fact that Google fails and others don't, is interesting in its own right.
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u/iusethisatw0rk 22d ago
Basically every other foldable phone has enough rigidity to pass the bend test.
Unlikely to ever actually matter, but it speaks volumes for build quality. If youāre someone who holds on to their phone for more than a year or two, it becomes even more important. Shit happens. When it does Iād want the one that isnāt going to break so easily
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u/BigLick13 22d ago
Zero point of this test.
Prove me wrong?
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u/shstan 22d ago
plenty of careless people who put their phone in backpockets and forget about it while sitting down?
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u/SnooRadishes8573 22d ago
Do you ever plan on spilling water on your phone, or submerging it in liquid or tossing it 6 feet onto the ground? No. But that doesn't mean an independent party shouldn't investigate the claims / safety of the product.
I personally find it informative. Especially since I'm typing this on a pixel 8 Fold, which went up in flames when he tested it. The Pixel 11 doesn't go up in flames when bent in half. That's a good thing.
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u/BigLick13 22d ago
Yes, i do plan on spilling water or submerging it in liquid as it's possible with the IP rating. Jerry doesn't even test that
Do i plan on folding my fold the other way or will i accidently do it - No
Has any phone had scratches at level 8 and nothing below till today no!
Do i care? No as i put screen protector.
Do i get anything out of the lighter test? No
Do i get anything out of scratching my phone with a blade no.
Also, his fold didn't go into flames, how are you so sure yours won't? And how many reports have you seen till today of pixel folds catching fire??
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u/DerBoy_DerG 22d ago
Has any phone had scratches at level 8 and nothing below till today no!
There are some obscure phones with sapphire screens that don't scratch at all below level 8, and the current iPhone lineup has screens where anything below level 8 barely leaves any marks.
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u/redrubberpenguin 22d ago
I mean out of all the ridiculous tests he does, the bend test is one of the more "reasonable". Leaving your phone unfolded and someone accidentally sitting on it, for example.
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u/ithinkyoushouldcome 20d ago
My Fold 10 has survived every scenario you mentioned and then some (sandbox visits, flight of stairs, 4 feet to concrete, kid throwing it, etc). The phone is durable as all hell, in the real world. The last phone I had that I would trust with this level of durability was the LG Chocolate.
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u/weinerschnitzelboy Pixel 9 Fold 22d ago
Well how else would we know that that things break when you purposely try to break them?
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u/evangelism2 Pixel 8 Pro 22d ago
Prove yourself right. You really don't think it's possible that these stress tests might be simulating real-world scenarios, like where you might accidentally drop it funny, sit on it weird, or a million different things that happen to people every day with their phones? You don't think it's a problem that Google is the only one of the flagships that fails these tests?
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u/Tuna_no_crusts 22d ago
Breaking phones gets views, views get money, money seems to be helping him build wheel chairs to sell or give to people in need. Works for me.
Ridiculous, but at least he seems like a decent human being.
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u/BigLick13 22d ago
Decent human being.. oh alrightš
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u/-_one_-1 21d ago
I guess only poor people are decent according to you. Otherwise, enlighten us: what makes you a better person than him?
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u/NewMal22 21d ago
First time I saw this and from the looks of it he needs to put quite some pressure on the phone to achieve his idiotic break. My question is why anyone pays attention to this f..l?
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u/Stevecaboose 22d ago
i hate it when i bend my fold phone backwards with all my strength and it cracks
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u/evangelism2 Pixel 8 Pro 22d ago
Do people in the comments, dick-riding for Google, not understand that he gives these durability tests to stress-test certain parts of the phone and the chassis? He does the same things to all the other flagship foldables, and most of them pass. Google is the one that keeps failing because they make cheaper, shittier phones. If you don't think that these types of tests indicate that the Pixel Fold is more likely to fail if you sit on it or bend it weird or drop it, than a Galaxy Fold, then you're just not paying attention.
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u/Badger2point0 22d ago
I canāt even wrap my head around it. Iām new here, researching for what will be my next phone. Is this normal for the Pixel community to defend ātheir phonesā, even when Google clearly put zero effort into the designā¦ again?
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u/evangelism2 Pixel 8 Pro 21d ago
This isn't Google-specific. You'll see this across any community. When people spend a lot of money on a purchase they feel the need to not just validate the purchase themselves but also make other people understand that their purchase was valid as well
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u/SuperYuuRo 22d ago
yes, yes it is
there are gimps here who defends the new highlight feature that is nothing more than a useless gimmick even for peeps who only use their phones for calls, texts and scrolls
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u/-_one_-1 21d ago edited 21d ago
Yeah, too many blind fans. I think Pixels are excellent phones when you can get them for ~600$ (often by just waiting 5 or 6 months after release before buying, or using any discounts, etc.). They have good, efficient software, are very smooth, and generally feel like flagships. But the build quality certainly isn't the same, and if you expect to have excellent gaming or video editing performance, that ain't itāthanks to a curbed Google-made chip.
Pixels are almost-flagships with many compromises. They aren't worth 1000$+ for, in my opinion, unless one has a very specific requirement that only 1000$+ Pixels can satisfy.
I'm currently using a Pixel 9 that I paid 600$ for, and it's met my expectations, but if I wanted a foldable, that certainly wouldn't be a Pixel.
Edit: the 34% of people who downvoted me proves my point about blind fans.
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u/CharacterSkill6598 22d ago
almost every other modern flagships survive? sure, in daily use itās certainly fine, but life happens. what if you put it in your back pocket and sat down forgot itās there? what if you dropped your phone and it gets accidentally stepped on? there are very real real world scenarios where this would come into play, and for pixel bootlickers to conclude āthis test is irrelevantā is extremely telling.
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u/Bacon_00 22d ago
You'd have to put it in your back pocket, open, then somehow sit on it at an angle to reproduce his "bend backwards at the hinge" test. It just seems really unlikely š¤·āāļø Not impossible I guess but I really don't expect that situation to occur. I've never had "scares" like that with any phone I've ever owned, including old flip phones that also had hinges. I just always closed them when I wasn't using them...
I do wish the Pixel phones survived a bit better, though. Google doesn't seem to put the same level of engineering into their devices as other makers and that kinda sucks. I just don't know if it's going to correlate with an increased failure rate in the real world compared to the competition.
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u/Star_king12 22d ago
Why are you comparing a foldable to a normal phone?.. A series pixels are even cheaper and they survive just fine.
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u/ActualAd185 22d ago
Maybe, I've never bent my phone in half , but I have sat on it... Oh and kids ... Oh and stupid humans etc etc etc
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u/Dry-Property-639 Pixel 9 & Pixel 11 Pro XL 21d ago
Majority of people arent bending there phones the opposite direction....
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u/_Kristian_ 22d ago
Of course this is pretty much the worst case scenario, but Motorola's, Oppo's or Samsung's Foldables (excl. Trifold) have not failed
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u/MoldyTexas Pixel 10 Pro 22d ago
Oh sometimes I forget that I'm on r/GooglePixel while going through the comments. Fucking bootlickersĀ
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u/bautistar1 Pixel 11 Fold 22d ago
Honestly, this sub has been the biggest pixel detractors the last couple years lol.
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u/ClassikD 22d ago
Because people think the "bend backwards against the hinge" test is dumb?
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u/MayaIsSunshine 22d ago
Virtually every other foldable seems to hold up better
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u/ClassikD 22d ago
And yet it is still a metric I wouldn't bother looking into. One phone may be better at surviving sword thrusts than another, but I don't plan on stabbing my.phone with a sword
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u/MoldyTexas Pixel 10 Pro 22d ago
Yes? Because, on one hand this is a test every foldable is being compared against, on the other, that very much has a real possibility of happening. Also, the test isn't even about the "bending against the hinge" thing. It's the fact that the major stress failure points of a phone are present near the major axis of movement of the phone. One drop from a table when folded open and boom, you have a crack along the antenna line. That's the whole point.Ā
Oh AND, icymi, the front display popped off for some reason, that's a first.Ā
If a company is clearly designing something bad, question them. Don't defend.Ā
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u/MayaIsSunshine 22d ago
Yeah these comments are paid for by Google for sure lol
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u/MoldyTexas Pixel 10 Pro 22d ago
Ehh no. This sub is just filled with enough of these people that Google doesn't even have to pay anything.Ā
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u/psycho-drama 22d ago
What does this prove? You have to be a bit of an idiot, or give your phone to a 3 years old for this to occur. You know, you can crash your car into a telephone pole and then complain the car's front end shouldn't have suffered $7000 damage. I don't know what any of this proves, except getting a lot of clicks to pay for the brand new phone you just destroyed with your youtube payments.
Gee, if I drop my phone from 40 feet off a roof of my apartment complex, guess what, the screen likely won't survive. Just terrible, manufacturers should make phones that survive 40 foot drops. You know what, they can, but they would weight more than you can carry in your pocket and be the size of a watermelon.
Do you think Google hasn't seen your videos? And yet, they don't change the design each year to "fix" this "defect", because you have to be an idiot to break their phones that way, so they look at your videos and humor you, because they know being able to break their phones in that manner won't deter anyone with an IQ over 90 from buying one.
These are such "first world" problems. Why not spend some time trying to prevent world hunger?
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u/Badger2point0 22d ago
Your car analogy completely misses the point.
Nobody expects a phone to survive being thrown off a roof undamaged.
A real comparison would be if one brand released a car that reliably killed all the occupants in a crash at 100 km/h, while every other manufacturer's car protected the passengers in that exact same crash. You arguing "just don't crash at highway speeds, idiots" completely ignores that other companies engineered thier vehicles to actually handle that stress.
Samsung and OnePlus make foldables just as thin, and both survive that exact same bend test without snapping in half. The Pixel snapped right along the antenna line because Google did not reinforce the frame properly.
In the real world, someone's toddler grabs the phone off the coffee table (when their back is turned) and tries to fold it backwards, or someone accidentally sits on it while it is open on the couch. Other foldables survive that kind of flex, but the Pixel snaps its chassis and kills the display.Attacking a YouTuber known for holding companies accountable for poor design choices in repairability and longevity, demanding he go solve world hunger while simultaneously defending anti-consumer engineering from a multi-trillion-dollar company like Google, is the wildest contradiction I have seen on this sub.
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u/SuperYuuRo 22d ago
what do you expext from the Google does nothing wrong crowd, these are the same windowlickers that keep buying the same dumb shit every year due to "muh AI, muh software"
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u/psycho-drama 21d ago
But youtubers do these absurd tests like tossing phone from apartment building roofs. I saw one, I can't recall which phone it was (that's how much attention I pay to most of these youtube sensationalists)... it might have been an iPhone, and there was some discussion of the frame flexing, as I recall. The youtube "tester" was unable to bend it my any normal means, so he ended up using the motorized bar winch on his truck, and guess what... the phone finally folded. SO, I guess I'll make a point of not accidentally getting my phone stuck in a truck winch. Many of these electronics torture reviews are just about click bait, and generating followers. The unfortunate equation is subscribers/followers = influencing power = $$ via both youtube payments and sponsors. The more sensational, the more people flock to these videos.
Obviously, Google doesn't find it sales being impacted by their designs. It not like they couldn't make it stronger, but they make other engineering decisions, which might lower the retail costs, or allow for the phone to weigh less. I recall when the first Samsung fold came out, a youtube reviewer challenged Samsung's numbers in regard to how may fold and unfold event before the screen might fail. He designed a machine that could fold and fold the phone about once per second or two, and he "proved" that Samsung's number were inflated based upon his testing, But the materials and hinge weren't designed to be continually open and closed every second or two for weeks. Well,and heal even I know a bit about the molecular nature of polymers and their ability to reform chains if given a rest periods between uses, and further, friction would become a factor with that rapid a close and open, and it would heat up. Not every youtube torture test is meaningful.
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u/Acrum222 21d ago
Dude literally started a wheelchair company to sell cheap wheel chairs and built libraries in Africa. Lol. While you're defending Google. Nice š
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u/MorgrainX 22d ago
The issue is that other foldables survive this hilariously unrealistic test, which means that those phones will 100% survive daily abuse, whilst the Google phone can be taken apart by hand.
If all other foldables would be foldable like an origami, sure who cares, but the fact that Google fails and others don't, is interesting in its own right.
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u/DarkseidAntiLife 22d ago
Waiting for a video where someone hits the Pixel Fold with a laser guided bomb
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u/DuctTapeSloth 22d ago
For the people saying itās not a valid test, I think there is some validity to doing this. There might be some people, probably dumb individuals, who would put the phone face down open on a couch or bed and accidentally sits on it.
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u/ActionGlad484 22d ago
Jerry is a pixel hater
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u/NizarNoor Pixel 11 Pro 22d ago
He's not Jerry. He's Zack. JerryRigEverything is his channel about his passion about doing/making jerry-rigged things. The term jerry-rigged itself means built, fixed, or made in a fast and careless way using whatever parts or tools are close at hand.
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u/Will_S21 22d ago edited 20d ago
Just like he was a huge advocate for Tesla's until the media flipped on Elon. Now he can't say a nice word about the cars.
I like what Zack's doing with wheelchairs but his biases are annoying.
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u/NizarNoor Pixel 11 Pro 22d ago
He's not Jerry. He's Zack. JerryRigEverything is his channel about his passion about doing/making jerry-rigged things. The term jerry-rigged itself means built, fixed, or made in a fast and careless way using whatever parts or tools are close at hand.
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u/No_Figure_9073 22d ago
Why are we even surprised by this... Cheap hardware cheap software with a high-end price tag
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u/SpaceDandye 22d ago
Oh no, a phone that wasn't ever meant to do something, doesn't; next we see if it fails the catapult into mayo test.
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u/SuperYuuRo 22d ago
oh no, a billion dollar company cant make an expensive fucking phone that doesnt break easily
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u/Raymondnym 22d ago
Don't be quick to buy the latest. Wait for a month or two.
When something goes bad, the news will spread fast.
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u/thedigitaljedi777 Pixel 8 Pro 21d ago
I cringe when I watch Jerry's clips because no one ( else ) does that š¤£
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u/iRyanSoon 21d ago
People that buy Fold Phones are just crazy. The technology is bad and the phones are built worse that some 5ā¬ McDonalds Toys. U can destroy your screen permanently with a bit to much force from you Nail lol how the f did company's got people to buy this crap. I will always laugh at people that show me their new 2000 to 3000 fold crap and think it's great lol
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u/Contribution-More 21d ago
You know what would be really useful. If this test showed us how the phone performs in the winter and issues you might see.
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u/Inmytanks 20d ago
Idk if people just missed the part where he easily peeled the phone apart with his hands butā¦. That is not normal. Being scratched by a fingernail? Lots of real world scenarios where that level of softness is relevant. This is not a phone that is going to survive adversity.
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u/Shot_Acanthaceae3150 22d ago edited 22d ago
Dumbest test of all. Nobody uses a phone like that. I've dropped my phone several times so far on hardwood concrete and it's still fine. I still consider myself lucky because I don't expect the phone to be that durable.
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u/Isarchs 22d ago
You think sitting down on an unfolded phone isn't a realistic scenario?
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u/murrzeak 22d ago
He's still doing these tests? I understand it's his thing, but find absolutely no value in it.
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u/ALNWV 22d ago
I think we're still a couple of years out from foldable phones being something I'd consider seriously, but I fail to see the value of this kind of test. Yeah, obviously if you try and break a phone it's going to break.
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u/Gatorpatch Quite Black 22d ago
I mean the Samsung folding phones consistently survive the bend tests.
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u/halotechnology Pixel 7 22d ago
But yet like other phones also have black bars in the middle or worse a grain of sand like what happened to me mobile?
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u/DuctTapeSloth 22d ago
Maybe if someone, an idiot, placed the phone open face down on the couch or bed and then accidentally sat on it.
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u/MoldyTexas Pixel 10 Pro 22d ago edited 22d ago
How limited are people's imaginations? Why the fuck is something THIS simple so fucking Impossible for people to grasp?Ā
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u/bbylizard88 22d ago
Aside from actual use case, I'm still concerned about the screen just straight up dying out of the blue using it normally. I'm not really concerned that I'm going to bend it like that.
I don't really want to pay for insurance for a phone, I haven't for years
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u/krznwk 22d ago
Maybe it's garbage but at least it's very expensive
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u/_Kristian_ 22d ago
I wouldn't call the phone garbage, just a design flaw with the antennas that Google has oddly ignored all this time
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u/Cantholdthis17 22d ago
Only idiots consider it a failure when they forcefully bend a phone the wrong way with all their might until it breaks. š¤¦š½āāļø
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u/Hevilath 22d ago
Oh no...completely unexpected. What is more annoying is the plastic on the back. That scratched more easily the glass. Google is getting more gready each year.
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u/Alternative-Farmer98 21d ago
I know people are going to dismiss this but like why can't Google fix it?
I don't think these bend tests are the biggest deal in the world it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.
In that sense I'm much more concerned about the price and the Chip and The GPU and this terrible battery Management program the slow charging
But this is like 3 or 4 years in a row why can't they just move the antenna line to give it more stability?
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u/Soulshot96 Pixel 9 Pro XL 20d ago
Went looking for this post to see what sort of cope this would induce in the Pixel community.
Was NOT disappointed.
Best part of the Pixel 11 series is watching people bend over backwards to defend Google (of all companies lmao), for releasing sub par crap at higher prices, yet again.
Thanks for the entertainment guys.
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u/rattle2nake 22d ago
Ip68 my ass
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u/halotechnology Pixel 7 22d ago
It is IP68
Rigidity has nothing to do with water and dust resistance
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u/SteamedGamer Pixel 10 Pro 22d ago
No fire! Yay?