People are obsessed with a wild YouTube live stream where testers repeatedly open and close flip smartphones. It's gone on for nearly a week: Samsung's phone still works, but Motorola's is broken.
The stream, which went live on August 2, has been going on for nearly a week. Over 800 people were viewing the stream at press time.
As for the results: The Razr 40 Ultra broke down after 126,367 flips, but the Galaxy Z Flip 5 is still going strong, with 293,335 flips at press time. "Oh my... Still folding…" another person wrote. According to the project's website, the stream was created to test whether phone manufacturers are exaggerating how durable their flip smartphones are.
"Smartphone producers seem to think consumers will be impressed by their ratings of 400,000+ folds, performed in a more controlled setting and most likely by a machine designed to fold the smartphone only in the way it was intended," said the website."But machines aren't human.""At this point, we're not sure if it's us folding the phone or the other way around," Klawiter said.
And as the name suggests, this isn't the first time Klawiter and his team of volunteers have done such a test. Last year, the YouTuber ran a similar experiment with
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