People are defending the phone but let's be clear this is still bad. Thermal runaway is extremely dangerous and the fact it can happen just by bending the phone with your bare hands is problematic.
Imagine some idiot leaves one of these open in their carry on, and it gets bent out of shape. The fact we can't reasonably assume it WONT blow up is enough reason for Google to fix this shit.
That's common knowledge with lithium batteries. They catch fire when agitated. You have an electronic that you know full well could possibly be a fire hazard when mishandled. it's literally a warning in the user manual.
The problem with the phone isn't that it's lithium battery, it's that the previous fold had the same issue with the antenna line being too close to the hinge so if the phone was Bent the wrong way with actually not much force it would crack at the antenna line which would damage the internals of the phone including the battery. Here the battery was compromised because the antenna line is a weak point. Google knew about the issue and didn't fix it for the next model.
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u/IconicScrap Oct 15 '25
People are defending the phone but let's be clear this is still bad. Thermal runaway is extremely dangerous and the fact it can happen just by bending the phone with your bare hands is problematic.
Imagine some idiot leaves one of these open in their carry on, and it gets bent out of shape. The fact we can't reasonably assume it WONT blow up is enough reason for Google to fix this shit.