Google's Pixel 10 Pro Fold battery explodes during durability test

Just when you thought it was safe to bend your foldable phones without the battery exploding on you, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold goes and gets an exploded battery to throw you off. That’s along the lines of what happened to the Pixel 10 Pro Fold when JerryRigEverything over on YouTube put Google’s latest foldable through a bend test. During his durability test video of the device, the phone was bent backward to see how it held up to this kind of pressure and damage.

It didn’t hold up well, to say the least. If you were thinking that you could avoid this by simply not bending your phone in such a way, you might be right. However, there could be another underlying issue here that isn’t so noticeable. Any phone’s battery exploding should be treated as a potential major issue with an inherent risk of injury. Such as in this case.

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold was the first phone to end up with an exploded battery in these tests

The main thing to keep in mind here isn’t that this is an extreme test that caused the battery to explode. It’s that this is the first phone to have done this in the many years that JerryRigEverything has been testing the durability of phones. According to him, no other phone has had a battery explode during these tests. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is the first phone to do this. Not even the Pixel 9 Pro Fold or the original Pixel Fold had this issue. So, that’s worth mentioning.

It’s not clear if there is some sort of underlying issue with the battery that may have contributed to this outcome. In any case, you can’t help but wonder if the battery could do the same thing in much less extreme situations. If it can, that’s a much bigger problem than the battery exploding from being bent in half twice.

The other problem is that some consumers will most certainly see this video and start to second-guess whether or not they should buy the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. After all, it’s not like Google’s latest foldable is the only foldable on the market. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 exists, and its battery didn’t explode during the durability test.