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Fold-A-Phone Week 3, Stream Day 11: 362K folds on the iPhone Duo!

No, it’s not AI. It’s week three of Fold-A-Phone! Every four seconds brings us one fold closer to the breaking point. Tune in today with CNET Labs Director Matthew Murray at 1pm EST to 5pm EST on YouTube. #foldaphone #iphoneduo #apple #durability #allthingsmobile

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  1. @Virru112

    November 9, 2026 at 11:45 am

    People want to talk about a bad batch of Duo phones, whilst forgetting what Samsung released as their first few models, whose screens completely blanked out. They’ll ignore this.. lol

    • @TheLilFid

      November 9, 2026 at 12:06 pm

      TRUE 😮

    • @TragicFlight

      November 9, 2026 at 2:46 pm

      This is because Apple spent all this time looking into folding phones which would be making it right the first time

      Samsung were one of the few first to start making them and they didn’t have 200 other phones to look at

      Apple does and yet still failed
      Samsung being the first will have holes but they learn
      Apple seems they will need to do the same

    • @Bammdg

      November 9, 2026 at 6:11 pm

      @TragicFlight Apple has a few with an issue, and far more without issues. Meanwhile Samsung on their latest folding phones has an issue with sinking screen corners. When customers point out how they appear to be broken and the corners don’t sink uniformly on devices, they said it was a feature…

      Anybody pretending Samsung is better than Apple because some duo screen have broken is only trying to fool themselves.

    • @TragicFlight

      November 9, 2026 at 6:19 pm

      There’s a lot to hate and love on both devices truth is

      Samsung has been in this game long enough to show they have more durability in their folding phones we all saw the iPhone duo review and durability test

    • @Bammdg

      November 9, 2026 at 6:28 pm

      @Tra@TragicFlight arent trying to bring up the JRE “durability test” are you? Where he seems to shove more sand in it than the video I saw him do with the galaxy fold 8, neither of which is a measured amount. He also bends both phones backwards, but because it’s just his hands, we have no idea how much force was used on one vs the other. The was able to break the phone. The only thing he proved was that if you try to break the phone, you can. Those parts of the “test” arent at all like his other measures and repeatable portions of what he does, like testing different hardness levels and such of the displays.

      If you want a better test, ifixit did a better test of the ip68 rating. Still a very simplified test where they put the phone in a bag of dust and shake it, but I believe they at least measured the amount of dust they used and tested closer to how the ip ratings tests are actually conducted.

      Im not trying to hate on the samsung, they are great phones in their own rights. But people rightfully want to compare the two together, and I see many people seeming to be willing to go easier on samsung. They want to say iphone had 8 years to get it right and failed, but then ignore things like what I wrote where samsung still has issues, but instead of addressing them, they told people it was a feature / intentional.

  2. @TheLilFid

    November 9, 2026 at 12:06 pm

    Okay okay ill buy it 😅
    Just a Little discount Thanks 👍
    Dont get me wrong … i still have the iPhone X !!!

  3. @weirdo211

    November 9, 2026 at 12:56 pm

    everybody claiming this ain’t a real world test. The fact the hinge has survived this many folds that just tells me that those that broke more than likely a manufacturing issue bad match of metal so for a hinge test, this thing is killing it. Now I personally use both iPhone and Samsung. and I’ve had Samsung phones crap out on me and I’ve had iPhone phones crap out on me, but what you should really be thinking about is the next version of this phone is going to smash competition

    • @Gkcmg11

      November 9, 2026 at 2:05 pm

      @weirdo211 why cuz you like iPhone iPhones are favored by old women

    • @tacoman4005

      November 9, 2026 at 3:29 pm

      The ones that broke isnt because of the hinge its because of the internals poking into the display. The hinges have always been fine.

    • @ddr8893

      November 9, 2026 at 5:45 pm

      Lol fanboi

  4. @Superz3ro

    November 9, 2026 at 1:16 pm

    Assuming this is only testing the durability of the hinge itself, this is totally fine, however, no one is going to open nor close their DUO with evenly distributed pressure across the devices screens…

    🤔

  5. @mikecaresforamericanpapermoney

    November 9, 2026 at 5:28 pm

    Lover boy keychain that’s the protection it’s fashion and first amendment together if you can buy that, then they’re gonna protect you they have to pay you, but you have to first buy it

  6. @JoshZlatkin

    November 9, 2026 at 6:14 pm

    It folds – big deal😂

  7. @OHareSpotter

    November 9, 2026 at 6:52 pm

    Livestream?

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