Watch Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7 Get Folded 200K Times In A Live Durability Test

Samsung's latest foldable flagship, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, is currently undergoing a grueling, unofficial, real-world durability test, not in a sterile environmentally-controlled lab, but on a livestream for all the world to see. South Korean YouTube channel, Tech It, has embarked on an ambitious experiment to manually fold and unfold the phone 200,000 times. So far, the livestream has entered into Day 5 of folding with the host making some interesting observations of the device.

For a few days now, the livestream has seen the YouTuber diligently opening and closing the Z Fold 7 by hand, aiming to simulate years of real-world use. The show emphasized how the manual approach is intended to provide a "similar to the actual usage environment" compared to automated machine tests. While Samsung officially rates the Z Fold 7's internal OLED panel for 500,000 folds under ideal conditions, this human-powered ...