Zack Nelson from the tech-focused YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has simply subjected Google’s new Pixel 9 Professional Fold handset to his notorious sturdiness take a look at.
The $1,800 Pixel 9 Professional Fold is “tremendous sturdy,” in keeping with Google, however it most likely wasn’t considering of Nelson’s distinctive method of “inspecting” telephones when it got here up with that.
The outcomes of the take a look at aren’t fairly, however with numerous scratching, scrunching, burning, and a spot of enthusiastically delivered bending, that’s no huge shock.
After scraping some fairly ugly marks onto the outside of Google’s new foldable utilizing a field cutter — and slicing his personal finger within the course of — Nelson drops an absurd quantity of grime and sand onto the cellphone “to seek out out if the Pixel 9 Professional Fold has any mud safety.” To which the reply is shortly discovered to be: “No, it doesn’t.”
Subsequent comes the bare flame, which, after some extended burning, leaves its mark on each the inside show and the outer one, too.
Lastly, we get the extremely anticipated and really unscientific bend take a look at. Not surprisingly, foldables hardly ever fare effectively when pressured the unsuitable method. However Nelson was stunned to see that within the case of the Pixel 9 Professional Fold, the machine didn’t break alongside the hinge however as a substitute simply off the middle within the location of its two antenna traces.
By the top of the video, the cellphone is a whole wreck. “There’s fairly the mess in right here,” Nelson observes.
However relaxation assured, even the clumsiest, most irresponsible smartphone person received’t ever find yourself with a cellphone on this state, however Nelson’s sturdiness take a look at at the least give us some concept of simply how a lot abuse a tool can take earlier than it offers in.
