Our custom-built Fold-A-Phone machine is folding the iPhone Duo constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, up until either one breaks. Catch the livestream every Monday through Friday on CNET's YouTube from 1pm to 5pm ET, starting Oct 26.

That phone is going to have a line indent on the screen due to that fish line.

To simulate properly the test would need to allow the heat created in each fold to dissipate. Without doing so would compromise the results.

The machine folding the Duo 24/7 is the most reliable employee in tech.

@cnet out here doing the lords work!

Eso está mal, muy mal. Quién en su sano juicio abre y cierra un plegable así. De una manera tan seguida. De cualquier marca. Puede que así calibren algunos componentes por repetición continua

When one breaks, does the machine keep folding the other or stop the run?

You gonna do this to all other foldables?

I bet the cable will wear out before the phone

What was the score for the other foldable.

Every time Apple produces a phone, you’ll discover a new way a testing…

my money is on the machine giving up first 🤣

This test also assesses the durability of the Apple Type-C charging cable.

Nice, durability testing is actually critical given what we saw on day one. We covered it here:

Interesting

Running the fold test until something breaks is the useful part, since a fold count on a spec sheet never says whether the hinge or the screen gives out first.