Will Have A Phone Folding Anti Dust, Samsung Boss: Please Be Patient!

Samsung plans to make its foldable phone more dust resistant (photo: dock samsung)

JAKARTA - Samsung plans to make its folding phones more dust resistant at consumer demand, and the company is doing various ways to make it happen.

"We are well aware of consumer demand for anti-dust, and we are making various efforts to achieve it," said the President of the Samsung TM Roh Cellular Business during a press conference after the Unpacked 2023 event recently.

Samsung has indeed added water resistance in several generations of foldable phones such as the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and the Galaxy Z Fold 5, and now the Roh asks its users to be patient with the dust resistance technology.

"Please wait a little longer (for the dust resistance rating)," explained the Spirit.

Dust is quite a difficult problem for foldable phones, but these obstacles must be resolved by Samsung if it really wants its folding product to be mainstream.

Currently, non-folding Samsung phones usually come with the IP68 rating, which is certified to be resistant to dust and water to a certain level.

However, the South Korean giant's foldable phone is only ranked IPX8, which means users can submerge it in water, but not for any kind of resistance to dust.

Launching The Verge, Monday, July 31, the moving part of the foldable phone makes it a difficult problem to solve.

Meanwhile, its competitor Motorola Razr Plus has already adopted dust resistance but not water resistance, which is much lower than Samsung. The folding phone is equipped with an IP52 rating, signaling limited protection of dust.