There's a video out there of a bunch of guys flipping Samsung phones all day long. It starts failing after about 6k flips.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MPPLhYDnkFA&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB

▲ canucker2016 4 days ago | parent [-]

FTV, main issues from the fold test:

  A forced reboot error first occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 folds, and the same error repeatedly appeared at roughly every 10,000 folds afterward (e.g., around 16,000, 26,000, etc.).

  Around 46,000 folds, creaking noises started coming from the hinge.

  At 75,000 folds, an unknown black liquid came out of the hinge, but it has not appeared again.

  At 175,000 folds, all speakers (earpiece, top, and bottom) stopped working.

  The hinge has become smoother. Free-stop still works, but elasticity seems to be lost.

The reboots at 10K intervals seems like a software problem fixable by an update.

The speakers failing at 175K folds seems like the major failing point. I suppose bluetooth would probably still be working so you could still limp through day-to-day activities.

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OkayPhysicist 4 days ago | parent [-]

To be fair, 175K folds is like folding it once every 5 minutes for every waking hour of the day for two and a half years.

	▲	Workaccount2 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		They also did it constantly, which would build up heat. Doing it like a normal person would probably give you a few multiples more folds.