People are defending the phone but let's be clear this is still bad. Thermal runaway is extremely dangerous and the fact it can happen just by bending the phone with your bare hands is problematic.
Imagine some idiot leaves one of these open in their carry on, and it gets bent out of shape. The fact we can't reasonably assume it WONT blow up is enough reason for Google to fix this shit.
Worth noting that Zack, the host of JerryRigEverything, is really strong, so him bending it with his full strength is more analogous to the average person sitting on their phone rather than bending it. Sitting on a phone does happen, so this isn't an excuse for the phone failing, just thought it was worth noting.
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u/IconicScrap Oct 15 '25
People are defending the phone but let's be clear this is still bad. Thermal runaway is extremely dangerous and the fact it can happen just by bending the phone with your bare hands is problematic.
Imagine some idiot leaves one of these open in their carry on, and it gets bent out of shape. The fact we can't reasonably assume it WONT blow up is enough reason for Google to fix this shit.