- Porous materials, including some leather substitutes, are susceptible to getting damp and harboring the growth of mold.
- The new POCO X7 PRO features one colorway that includes just such an eco-leather panel on the handset’s rear.
- Over on Reddit, one new X7 PRO owner has shared a pic that appears to show mold taking over the leather.
You don’t need to be a Last of Us fan to have a healthy fear of fungus, and anyone who’s ever lived in a home infested with black mold can attest to how traumatic even seeing that first hint of it can be. And considering how often we’re touching our phones everyday, holding them up against our faces, having a moldy phone is just about the worst thing we can imagine.
That’s exactly why we’re feeling some second-hand discomfort upon checking out the image shared on Reddit by user Few_Combination5430 over on the site’s POCO phone sub, detailing the fate of their new POCO X7 PRO:
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