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A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate

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A YouTuber identified a specific internal component causing the iPhone Duo's hinge to crack the screen, explaining the widespread "crackgate" failures reported by users.

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Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break the screen. Tellingly, the cracks all seem to happen in the same place. YouTuber CuriousHagi was able to reproduce the cracked screen during some durability testing of the iPhone Duo. Then he pulled it apart to try and find the culprit. What he found is that the Duo's hinge is quite complex, consisting of a gear-like central hinge and two different types of linking hinges. The piec … Read the full story at The Verge.

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