Evan Rodgers, reporting for Input: When Samsung released the Galaxy Z Flip, its newest folding phone, at midnight this past Friday, I was one of many who wasn’t able to snag one due to low stock here in New York City. So here I am, refreshing my order page while I watch the lucky few who did manage to get one put them through their paces online. Though most YouTubers and reviewers seem to be enjoying the phone, durability is a question, and at $1,380 here in the U.S., it’s a good one. At Unpacked, where Samsung announced the Z Flip, the company made a big deal about the “Ultra Thin Glass” that covers the display. One could be forgiven, then, for assuming that the display has all the scratch-resistant properties of glass, but in a durability test by JerryRigEverything on YouTube, that doesn’t seem to be the case. In the video you can see Zack’s (the YouTuber) tools and even fingernails leaving permanent scratches on the display.
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