- Samsungs Flip 7 underwent an extreme durability test
- Its outer screen is hardy but the inner screen is slightly scratched and burned
- However, it could not be snapped in half by hand
Our telephone test is very strict, but we focus on what an ordinary person would get out of the gadget and if it is better or worse than the competition at the same price; We do not routinely set fire to telephone screens, bathe gadgets in dirt or try to scratch each surface with a knife – but that’s what a tester has done with Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7.
In an extreme durability test, which you find several of on his YouTube channel, JerryrigEVEYTHING seriously sets Samsung’s new folding through its tempo follow-up on a similar video involving the Galaxy Z Fold 7 about a week earlier.
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In the barely 9-minute video, Samsung’s phone is tortured, but we learn some useful details.
The outer screen is pretty hardy and stands up for markedly harder materials than the inner screen – which a particularly powerful nail – scrap is capable of creating grooves in – and also resisting direct heat from a lighter’s flame. The inner screen is left with a few permanent green damage marks after approx. 15 second fire exposure.
It is then soaked in the dirt, including getting a healthy heap fell straight into the hinge. Opening and closing the phone with dirt covered allowing some soil to enter the mechanism – you can hear it crushing when you open and close after the fact – but at least during the video there is not another permanent damage.
Eventually, JerryRigeVegetch makes his best to snap the phone in half with his hands, but it survives his attempt.
You definitely have to go and watch the full video – especially if you, like me, are too careful about your technique to let the intrusive thoughts win – because it highlights the extreme lengths you have to go to actually tear these foldable ones apart.
Harder than you think
I have used a folding as my daily driver for about a year. I started with Galaxy Z Fold 6 and recently upgraded to Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7.
Because I get these phones through my job, I’m a little more laissez-faire with how I treat them (meaning I buy a cheap screen protector, but not a case), but both phones have kept very, very good.
Z Fold 6 has a few bruises at the edges, but nothing serious and my z fold 7 is close to immaculate. There are also no problems with their hinges, and even if you can see their folds, it is not super noticeable on any of the phone when using one.
This brings me to a point I did on our Samsung Special Podcast. While the IP48 dust and waterproof rating means that foldable can let fine dirt (somewhat less than 1 mm) and their inner screen is not as durable as a regular phone view, most normal people probably do not have serious problems.
I have been on a sandy beach twice in the past year and visited a desert without my folding being affected. I was careful, determined, but nothing more than I am with a non-foldable one.
If you regularly work on the beach or in e.g. A dusty woodwork shop or in a superharsh environment, it may not be ideal. But for most people, these extreme and my year -long tests prove that they are surprisingly durable if you are friendly to them. If the shelf life was the reason you have been exposed to buying one, it may not be as big a problem as you imagine.
