Zack Nelson is the American YouTuber behind JerryRigEverything, the most-viewed smartphone repair and teardown channel on YouTube with over 10 million subscribers. Known for his systematic durability tests — scratch, burn, bend — he turned a $1,000 Jeep repair he did himself for $80 into a multi-million-view media empire. Beyond the broken screens and scorched phones, he co-founded Not-a-Wheelchair with his wife Cambry, building affordable off-road and ultra-custom wheelchairs made in the USA, and used his YouTube earnings to fund a full-size community library in Busia County, Kenya.
Joe Weil is the CEO of Unplugged, a privacy-first smartphone company that makes the UP Phone - an open-source Android device stripped of Google services, built with a hardware battery disconnect switch, on-device firewall, and a no-surveillance business model. Before leading Unplugged, Weil spent roughly a decade at Apple leading zero-to-one special projects for Apple Services, and before that built Psycho Films LLC, directing music videos for Kendrick Lamar, 21 Savage, A$AP Ferg, and Big Sean. He left Apple, by his account, after watching the company shift into political activism, soft censorship, and deep integration with China.
The Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold is Samsung's first tri-fold smartphone — a 309g engineering marvel that unfolds from a pocketable phone into a full 10-inch tablet via two precision hinges. Launched in December 2025 at $2,899, it sold out globally within minutes of each restock before being discontinued in March 2026, with a successor already confirmed for 2027.