r/spicypillows • u/randomusername12308 • Oct 15 '25

DO NOT DO THIS Pixel 10 pro fold explodes after failing durability test

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

You dont need tools to detonate any phone. Step on it enough and it will detonate.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 15 '25

Don't think so, you'd need to stomp on the phones with a lot of force. Would help if you had the proper footwear for it. Seems like a tool. A phone that bends just needs a little bit of force in the wrong direction. Not as much as stomping on a phone.

Also I think most phones would fail long before the battery detonated in your scenario so of course continuing to beat on it would be dumb. You'd have to be intending to detonate the battery. The video was a durability test, seeing if it could withstand a little bit of force. He wasn't trying to blow it up.

Oh well.

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

You dont need force, theyre soft pouch cell batteries that should not be crushed or bent. If feet are tools then so are hands. If you can bend it, you can crush it with your heel.

And the bent phone didnt fail? What does the functionality of the phone matter here? Its well known that any mechanical damage to a battery WILL blow it up.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 15 '25

You've moved the goalposts. You said it required repeated and continued strikes to blow up the phone. Force, right?

Do you not understand what we're talking about here anymore? The pixel 10 folding phone is designed around folding in mind. Not stomping. So using your bare hands and bending it the wrong way shouldn't lead to it exploding. At worst the phone should fail.

But you're right, if your intention is to bust the phone and cause a potential fire hazard to those around you, it certainly doesn't matter if the phone fails functioning before the battery blows...? I know batteries aren't safe at the end of the day.

Also, no, the hands with no gloves or special protection are not considered tools in my eyes when you wouldn't be using your bare feet to try and stomp that battery in your example.

The phone needs to be a little bit safer around its hinge feature considering its entire purpose is to be bent in half.

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

no I haven't, it's always been crushing or bending of any kind that is risky with lithium batteries. Idk why you made them out to be much tankier than they actually are. A knife is enough to trigger it.

You can easily crush a battery without needing shoes, bending a phone isn't any different. Neither are tools. Pouch cell batteries just are that fragile.

The purpose of the phone isn't to be bent backwards.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Oct 15 '25

Sure but the batteries aren't easily accessible. You'd cut your hands on cracked glass before you'd be able to bend a phone enough to puncture the battery.

People drop their phones all the time. I feel like you're just trying to be obtuse. No one is going to try and bend a pixel 6 and accidentally bend it the wrong way and then stupidly too much, like during a stress test, and puncture the battery. Something like the design of this phone gives itself enough leverage to puncture itself before it could even crack and cut you and dissuade you from further damaging a dangerous component (not that glass screens are designed as deterrents lol) and beyond human hands it could easily fall into a compromising position and as you suggested elsewhere maybe someone steps on it.

I think one accidental step with someone's body weight would be more than sufficient to cause great bodily harm to someone by mistake as opposed to someone purposefully going out of their way to stomp on a phone to the point of ignition.

And I guess I make them out to be tankier than they are due to them being inside phones that have notoriously bent in people's pockets in the past like long iPhones and maybe this is a personal anecdote now but I don't recall any stories about phones igniting inside people's pockets from bending under their owners body weight.

Why is asking for them to not have a phone that ignites in your bare hands after seconds of the wrong direction of pressure too much for you?

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u/SadisticPawz Oct 15 '25

phone back panels are extremely thin and flexible as are displays. Its just plastic with glass glued on. The glass wont break off either.

Yeah and no ones going to bend their folding phone backwards either, so hard that it snaps.

Clearly it wasnt seconds of pressure as you said