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| [* black] And here's that beautiful spine in motion! | |
| [* black] At the top: the single rounded sliding hinge. | |
| [* black] Just below that: one of the springy clasps, for latching the phone open. | |
| [* black] And towards the bottom: the gear array, stabilizing the center and distributing force. | |
| [* icon_reminder] Samsung says they folded these phones more than 200,000 times, and with this hinge system we don't doubt it. But, maybe humans aren't quite as gentle as Samsung's robots are ... | |
| [* black] One thing we didn't find was any hinge ingress protection—those large gaps around the spine let dirt right in, possibly getting trapped between hinge and display. | |
| - | [* icon_note] While some dirt might fall back out again, a small grain of sand lodged between the fragile |
| + | [* icon_note] While some dirt might fall back out again, even a small grain of sand lodged between the fragile display and its hard metal backplate could potentially be a fatal pressure point as the phone is folded open. |