Samsung’s $1,900 Z Fold 8 is still vulnerable to pocket lint

iFixit has provisionally fixed Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 a repairability people of 4 retired of 10, which mostly hinged on… well, the hinge. In its teardown of the device, iFixit recovered that because it carries an IP48 ingress standing — meaning it isn’t protected against particles nether 1 millimeter — particulate and soil could make its measurement into the hinge mechanism, a constituent that’s difficult to repair aliases replace.

“After moving the Fold 8 unfastened and closed, the hinge started making genuinely atrocious crunching and grinding noises, and the telephone stopped opening normally,” iFixit said. “Samsung has antecedently treated the hinge and soul show arsenic 1 replacement assembly, and for scoring purposes we person to presume the Fold8 will travel the aforesaid pattern. Damage to either constituent would truthful require fundamentally emptying the telephone to switch the full assembly.”

That inability to support retired pouch lint has blighted Samsung’s foldables (and foldables generally) for years, truthful this rumor isn’t thing new. Still, immoderate caller foldables for illustration Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, and Honor’s Magic V6 do person afloat dust-resistant IP6X ratings, truthful Samsung astir apt needs to commencement catching up to its competitors.