Xiaomi recently held a live stream online, which was for a test for its first foldable handset, the Mi Mix Fold. In the live stream, the company had the device undergo an endurance test that tested its folding capabilities that had the device be bent over 200,000 times.
On the company’s CEO’s, Lei Jun, official Weibo account (a Chinese microblogging website), the device’s week long folding test was live streamed. The Mi Mix Fold survived a long and uninterrupted bending test, which had it fold over 200,000 times. This test was carried out for about 89 hours, with the device folded every 1.6 seconds for the entire 24 hours and 7 days in a row duration.
As per official notes from the Chinese tech giant, this test was done to showcase the device’s build quality and endurance. Xiaomi even added that this 89 hour long test is equivalent to 10 years in terms of normal usage. Meaning, an average user would take years to reach this number of folds that the Mi Mix Fold went through in just 7 days. To ensure authenticity, the live stream also displayed the timer mechanism to highlight that the stream is in real time and is not pre recorded or edited.
Furthermore, the company also added that the device could also last for up to five and a half year even if the Mi Mix Fold is opened and close up to 100 times a days. Back in 2019, CNET did a similar test, which had checked the endurance of the Samsung Galaxy Fold that was folded over 120,000 times before being damaged.
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