In line with Nelson, not like its predecessor — the Pixel 9 Professional Fold — which snapped in half, the Pixel 10 Professional Fold confronted extra extreme harm. For starters, the duvet show, protected by Gorilla Glass Victus 2, confirmed scratches at stage 6 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, with deeper scratches at stage 7.
The interior display screen proved prone to scratches, even from a fingernail. Scraping the cellphone’s outer edges triggered the color coating to peel off through the take a look at.
The Pixel 10 Professional Fold boasts the first-ever IP68 ranking for mud and water resistance amongst foldables, and it proved fairly succesful when Nelson utilized sand and mud to the interior display screen. Nonetheless, there was a noticeable crunching sound of sand throughout the hinge.
Throughout Nelson’s normal burn take a look at, the cellphone held up, however the bend take a look at proved dramatic. Google claims the Pixel 10 Professional Fold’s redesigned hinge can endure a decade of inward folding. Nonetheless, it snapped when bent outward — not on the hinge however alongside the antenna strains on the left aspect.
The state of affairs escalated when additional bending triggered the system to smoke and dramatically break aside on digicam. Nelson remarked that the Pixel 10 Professional Fold was “by far the weakest folding smartphone I’ve ever examined.”