Galaxy Z TriFold suffers a horrific defeat in the durability test; there’s just more to break.

 Galaxy Z TriFold suffers a horrific defeat in the durability test; there’s just more to break.

Galaxy Z TriFold suffers a horrific defeat in the durability test; there’s just more to break. Every now and then, there’s a piece of technology that lands on my desk that almost makes me feel bad about 

What’s going to happen? Almost. It’s the Samsung Galaxy Z Tri-Fold. The ultimate pinnacle of foldable phone technology of the past 7 years.

Samsung has now doubled the number of hinges to create a 10-inch tablet that folds flat and fits in your pocket, Iron Man style. I have another one of those.

That’s about it, so stay tuned. Plus, this might be the most shocking of all the new developments. It comes with a charging brick in the box.

Right off the bat, it feels kind of flimsy, which makes me nervous because I definitely don’t want it to die before it’s even three times as big. And reached the main Android menu.

Without, we are repelled by a long list of warnings like, "Do not press too hard on the screen. This phone is not dustproof. Do not remove this protective film from the main screen and the new one.

When folding, always start with the panel that does not have the camera. Start with the panel that does have the camera, I think, when we can damage the phone.

Lifting the edge with the camera, I can slowly, sadly, scientifically, start to bend to the right. Once it hits about 90 °, it starts to vibrate three times.

The sensor in it increases as the flap gets closer and closer to the center. Honestly, I think the bend is still quite soft, and all the hardware is fine.

We will not worry about any mistakes. About, like the torpedophiles pay taxes, but it seems that Samsung has put small lips on the flap first, making it easier to pull out and open.

I noticed that each part of the tri-fold is a different thickness. This guy is 6 and 1/2 inches in size. I will remove the pre-installed plastic screen, and as you know.

Plastic scratches at a level of two or three. Glass scratches at a level of five or six. And sapphires, which are some amazing things, scratch at a level of eight or nine. My wife only has 10 diamonds.

And as we would expect on a smartphone made with Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2, it scratches at a level deeper than level six. Both marks at 67 are definitely visible.

I’m so sorry. For the large internal flexible display, this is where things get interesting. Seven generations in, we’re still seeing scratches at a level of two.

And deep grooves at a level of three. Flexible screens are soft, and there’s no way around that. But knowing that foldable screens are soft is the first step to protecting them from damage.

As long as you don’t let hard or pointed objects like fingers, keys, or even coins come into contact with the internal display, it should last a really long time.

Samsung has tested the folding mechanism in a pristine controlled environment 200,000 times without any damage. It’s been open 100 times a day for 5 years.

Galaxy Z TriFold. But, you know, environments aren’t pristine. That inner display houses a 10-megapixel hole-punch selfie camera. It’s topped with the same scratch-resistant clear screen material,

So be careful with that. It’s also great that the entire soft screen is protected when the tri-fold is closed tightly. There’s another 10-megapixel selfie camera on the front glass display,

So the whole phone works perfectly when it’s all closed, which is good news for the latter. For the frame, Samsung is using two materials. For the most part,

Everything you can touch with your hands on the outside is super-thin Armoraluminum. And supposedly there’s some titanium inside the hinge, but we can’t touch it yet.

The side-mounted fingerprint scanner is made of plastic, and the metal volume rocker is removable, but let’s move on. I can’t believe how thin these frame rails are.

For reference, at its thinnest point, Samsung has slimmed those frame rails down to just 3.9mm, while Apple’s thinnest point on its own thinnest phone, the Air, is 5.6mm.

Samsung’s Trifold is a full millimeter and a half thicker while still having dual stereo speakers, which the iPhone Air doesn’t have room for. Amazing things can happen.

When Samsung decides to bend, and I think they should bend more often. There’s a dual SIM card tray with a gray rubber ring to help with water resistance.

The Samsung Trifold is IP48, meaning it can be submerged in water for short periods of time, but it doesn’t have much resistance to dust. The most surprising thing is

This USBC port is basically the thickness of the phone. For example, my own USBC charger is bigger than the body of the phone. Samsung is playing with a complete tolerance for reality here,

And it looks unusual, but I have a bad feeling that BinTest is going to show off the zooming back out on the rear panel with its triple camera lens housing.

Typically, Samsung uses glass here, and they still have at least three camera lenses. These are the same cameras on the ZFold 7. A 12-megapixel ultrawide on top, a 200-megapixel primary camera in the middle,

and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto zoom camera on the bottom, you know, a color LED flash with a lot of power to recreate the ceramic glass fiber.

Scratchable. This is the same color as redactedEpstein listed. And the zigzag pattern reminds me of a zipper, which is a fun fact,

If you go ahead and check your zipper right now, I bet I can tell you the three letters that are printed on the puller. And if I'm right.

Then you'll have to tell me in the comments. That's SYKK, right? YKK makes most of the zippers on the planet. Like, that single company makes enough zippers to go around the world 80 times every year.

So, it’s a pretty safe bet that you’re probably wearing one of their zippers right now. I thought it was kind of a fact, but maybe it’s best to stop looking at it now.

Galaxy Z TriFold. The other non-screen panel is made from the same scratchable ceramic glass fiber reinforced polymer that comes in the Redacted Black colorway. Personally, I’m a huge fan of fiberglass.

Yes, it scratches, but I prefer having a scratch-back panel to a broken glass panel. So, I hope Samsung brings this panel material more to its mainstream lineup.

The front screen has a 1080p 2,600nit panel with 120 Hz 6.5 that lasted about 17 seconds in the heat of my flame before the OLED panel turned golden and didn’t recover.

I noticed here that when the Samsung Tri-Fold is folded up, there’s a very small gap in the body of the phone. Obviously, so the outer edge doesn’t rub against the soft inner screen.

Definitely not a problem or anything. I think it’s really cool how Samsung put it all together. The inner 10-inch screen is the same 120Hz OLED,

But it’s only 1,600 nits, and the pixels only lasted for about 10 seconds before going black and never recovering. OLED panels are very expensive, and the rumor is

That replacing just the middle screen will cost around $1,100, but without the repair, it will only cost $1,100. We don’t know for sure.

If you recall from earlier, Samsung says that this thing is IP48 dust and water-resistant. But as you can see here, and more importantly

As soon as dust comes into contact with the Tri-Fold, it becomes a tri-fold noise. You can see how the iron metal dust from my backyard collects on the internal magnets.

And I mean, yes, the amount of dirt I sprayed on top, but the speed at which the grinding process began, I would be very nervous to ever put the Tri-Fold down on a pristine surface.

Or put it in a pair of work pants, even if they have a YKK zipper. You can see the location of the tiny internal magnets with my magnet paper.

A lot is going on inside this thing, which we’ll probably unintentionally see more of in just a second. A little more dust splashes on the Tri-Fold’s titanium hinge.

Even more dust gets in. I think it’s very generous of Samsung to give itself a four on the dust protection rating.

I'd choose it atzero or X so as not to give people a false sense of security. Doubling the hinges doubles the risk of dust. Now that we have more sand inside our trifold than an hourglass,

It's time. And just for fun, how thin it is, I thought I'd try removing just one corner first. I've seen Graham Crackers thicker than this phone.

So if you look closely, it was worth a shot. The corner of the trifold bent under the pressure of my fingers, right next to that antenna line, and permanently bent. 3.9mm isn't much.

By the time you've milled the internals for the battery and hardware, you're left with about as much wall thickness as one can pop, and it's not all that sturdy.

I have a feeling the inside of the trifold is going to be the outside of it. With a single twist in the wrong direction, the Trifold became the first Samsung to kick the bucket during my bin test.

With a thin plastic back panel with no additional structural support and a thin antenna line that separates the aluminum frame, the phone just buckles. But at least now we can clean the inside.

Thumbs up for that. Sure, Samsung's patented Black Magic is the best of these bad boys, but the frame is so impossibly thin that it can't handle any level of abuse.

Galaxy Z TriFold: Definitely don't sit on it when it's open, which is key here. If you're going to treat the Trifold nicely,

Then this is probably the best phone on the planet. But if you're someone who's lazy and careless with their hardware, this probably isn't the phone for you.