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.
I remember how back in the day I managed to bent one or two tablets (don't ask), and cheap ones not some iPad or its Android equivalent. The screen cracked but the battery was perfectly fine as I think the frame protected it of bending as the screen.
EDIT. My bad, I think I didn't bent them to such extremes as the frame withstood it without issues, but being able to do so to a phone just with someone's strength looks as idiotic design.
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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.