YouTuber JerryRigEverything’s durability test made the battery of Google’s latest foldable catch fire.
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold after its battery has caught fire | Image Credit – JerryRigEverything on YouTube
Google touted the Pixel 10 Pro Fold as the most durable foldable phone, sporting an IP68 rating for water and dust resistance, a new hinge, and a larger battery with Qi2 charging. All that crumbled in a snap during a durability test by YouTuber Zack Nelson, host of JerryRigEverything.
As part of the well-known durability test on JerryRigEverything, Zack Nelson bends phones to test if they can snap. That test made the Pixel 10 Pro Fold snap at one of its antenna lines, which damaged the device’s battery, causing a short circuit and an intense thermal reaction.
That damage led to the first battery explosion in the decade-long history of durability tests on JerryRigEverything’s YouTube channel. Over the last ten years, Nelson has tested virtually every mainstream smartphone on the market.
A catastrophic and easily predictable failureNelson says that the failure was easily predictable because Google hadn’t addressed the weaknesses he had spotted on its previous foldables.
