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Zack Nelson finds the folding phone's inner screen marks at fingernail level, then prices the repair at a thousand dollars.
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iPhone Duo Durability: Destroyed
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- 0:00Nelson unboxes the iPhone Duo and runs through Apple's design specifications.
- 2:37The outer Ceramic Shield 2 glass faces the Mohs picks and holds until level seven.
- 4:20The inner folding screen scratches at level two, hidden by the matte finish until it turns off.
- 6:00On a second unit he peels off the nano-texture layer to compare glare and clarity.
- 10:04Sand and dirt go over the unfolded phone and into the hinge.
- 11:36The bend test begins, followed by his verdict and a look at Apple's cases at 12:59.
Last week Zack Nelson stood in an OPPO factory watching robots put phones together, as we reported here. His next upload goes the other way: two iPhone Duos, a set of Mohs scratch picks, a lighter and a lot of dirt.
The outside of Apple's first folding iPhone does what he expects. Its Ceramic Shield 2 cover glass "only starts showing the faintest of marks at a level seven," he says. Open the phone and the story changes. The flexible inner display "scratches at a level two, with deeper grooves at a level fingernail," and its matte nano-texture finish hides the damage until the screen goes dark.
On the second unit he peels that nano-texture layer off to compare glare and clarity. It is a costly experiment, and he says so: "one thousand dollars to fix that inner screen."
The real trouble starts when he pours sand and dirt over the open phone. The grit works into the hinge, and the Duo will no longer shut. "My new iPhone Duo is completely done closing," he says. A lighter burns the inner screen in about ten seconds while the outer one holds out past twenty. A backward bend then breaks the inner panel, leaving green and white lines and a touchscreen that no longer responds.
The description saves its sharpest line for Apple's timing. With heavy sarcasm, it calls the Duo the first folding phone ever made and doubts that Samsung has been doing it for seven years. Nelson put Samsung's original Galaxy Fold through his tests back in 2019.
The video closes with Apple's own cases, then a promotional segment for dbrand's screen protector, Grip case and skin.
Viewers clearly waited for it. The review drew close to 7.7 million views on its first day, and comments came in nearly ten times faster than on his usual first day. Many describe checking his channel again and again for the upload, and one compares it to the Super Bowl. Others play with his own vocabulary, turning the scratch levels into jokes about wallets and chainmail. It is the same scratch, burn and bend ritual that made his 2016 iPhone 7 test one of his most watched videos, with a new problem in it: a hinge.
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Almost bought one, but I really hate when my medieval chainmail armor scratches my phone, then sadly this one is a no for me, thanks for the testing!
@fellnermiguelSee it on YouTubeThis is like the Super Bowl for me
@GeraldRobotnik-o2hSee it on YouTubeBuying iphone duo:
scratches in wallet
deeper grooves in bank account@isameerxoSee it on YouTube
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Jerry doesn't test durability. He just shows the phone what hell looks like
@Zmaj5S26See it on YouTubeCame to channel 4 times to see if this was uploaded or not… finally its here
@basil.elia7See it on YouTube“Scrolling two social media apps at the same time will definitely help squeeze out those last few drops of happiness from those dried up dopamine receptors” 😂😂
@H0MES1CK77See it on YouTubevery soon phone companies are gonna start taking restraining orders against Jerry
@aviationvSee it on YouTubeBros never getting invited to the apple event
@carsonscopsSee it on YouTubegenuinely the first video to make me impatient about it's release
@aaaaaadccf7See it on YouTube13:14 “the case almost needs a case with how expensive it is” 😂😂
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Which company's folding phones does Nelson's video description point to as years ahead of Apple?
The description jokes that the Duo is the first folding phone ever made, though Samsung has been making them for seven years.