OnePlus Open dissected for durability-enhancing materials in new teardown video
The OnePlus Open's marketing claims of resilience and reliability in folding may have been at least partially vindicated on its successful run through the JerryRigEverything gauntlet of durability tests. Then again, the OEM made other claims that were also worth investigating in the new smartphone's subsequent teardown.
They include assertions that the OnePlus Open is augmented with a "titanium cobalt-molybdenum alloy", which, according to Nelson, is there all right - in the screws that hold its "zirconium amorphous alloy" Flexion Hinge down. Then again, as the vlogger argues, if Apple can get away with that kind of premium material-related hype, why not other manufacturers?
The device's carbon fiber was also successfully excised, examined and confirmed to have a "patented H-pattern micro-weave" structure. Similarly, it seems the Open does indeed have ultra-thin glass for its main OLED screen all right - it's just under several layers of clear plastic display cover.
As interesting and intricate as a OnePlus Open teardown has proven to be, it does not really do as much for its repairability as it does its durability - then again, it seems it is conceivably possible to get the Emerald Green glass rear panel off in one piece, even if the rest of the phone would patently not be going back together again.
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