A warning has been issued after a YouTuber had a phone explode on him during an insane test video.
Zack Nelson, who is better known online as @JerryRigEverything, reviews new devices on social media, with his tech content earning him a following of over nine million subscribers.
But now, for the first time ever, Nelson experienced a smartphone exploding, which he caught on camera.
This was during a review of the Pixel Fold 10 Pro where the YouTuber tested the phone’s durability.
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In the video description, Nelson claimed that Google has ‘tried nothing to strengthen’ the smartphone and that now, ‘they are all out of ideas’.
He continued: “I thought for sure that after the first two catastrophic failures - Google might move some antenna lines around and make the phone stronger... But nope! The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold is weaker than ever and now explodes.
“This is the first time in a decade of durability testing smartphones that I’ve had a phone explode in my hands.”
Many people took to social media themselves to react to the clip, with one user warning on X, formerly Twitter: “Just watched the video. Yes, these tests are extreme but they’re not nearly extreme enough where this phone should explode. If this isn’t a one-off, Google has an issue on its hands.”
Another wrote: “He usually bends phones, but never at the battery because there is usually some metal part preventing it. In this case, it seems that there was no reinforcement.”
In the YouTube comment section, a third person commented: “All my years of watching teardown videos on this channel and anticipating something to blow up, finally the day has come!”
And a fourth joked: “Nah bro you skipped the part where they had introduced the new smoke machine feature? Best part of their presentation, everybody was quite literally ‘blown away’.”
This isn’t the first time that Nelson has destroyed a device in a bid to test its durability as he previously took a blowtorch to the new iPhone Air.
He admitted that for the last few years, he ‘kinda assumed Apple was coasting’, until they dropped the ‘thinnest iPhone they have ever made’.
Promising fans a literal inside look of the device, he added that with its ‘Sensor Shift camera sensor, and 3D Printed Titanium charging port... there is a whole lot going on inside the iPhone Air that’s worth checking out’.