CNET decided to put the Galaxy Fold through a folding torture test, and the phone didn’t quite live up to Samsung’s promises. The $2,000 device was placed into a machine that rapidly folded and unfolded it, and its display failed at around the 120,169 folds mark, if not a bit sooner.
When the Fold was announced, Samsung said it had “tested up to 200,000 folds” in internal testing. If you watch the company’s video of those tests below (for the original Fold model), you’ll notice that the device is being folded at a slower pace than the machine CNET used. Could that make a difference in terms of stress on the device? Probably. These rapid-fire tests put more stress on the Fold’s hinge than it would face in real-world use by a normal user,…