Playing Russian Roulette with your smartphone: Folding phones and breaking the laws of physics

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[@sim6699]

It's more engineering than Physics

[@scaryifliteral]

Thanks for the shout out!

[@bricequirl]

Using a $1.8k device completely within its design limits & having it break in < a year is NOT reassuring. Having more than second thoughts on UTG in general.

[@mikekwarner]

As we all know, everything in time and space is one big probability distribution, whether it be dropping your phone and cracking the screen, opening a foldable or getting crushed by a falling piano.
The 1 in 10,000 mentioned is considerably less than the live streamed durability tests (e.g. 126,000 for a Moto and no failure after 350,000 for a Samsung), but even so for a user like myself who opens my OP Open maybe 3 times a day, even the highest probability of failure will easily outlast my usage of the phone.

[@petewarner2973]

Gone all Dirty Harry 😂

[@gornichevo]

Surface Duo doesn't have this problem

[@bricequirl]

Not sure I'm feeling that lucky! 😁

[@josephbenaiah3260]

They look nice but are overly expensive for the risk of that fold. In the last few years we've seen many attempted form factors including some retro ones from a British company but have all failed and the portrait smartphones are the only practical devices.

[@BusAlexey]

Oof

[@Yossarian_Lives73]

King “dirty” Harold…