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You'll soon be able to drop your phone from selfie level worry-free with a little help from Corning. The glass company presented the fifth iteration of its super-resistant Gorilla Glass at an event at its offices in Palo Alto, California.
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The previous version of the glass could survive a drop at about pocket level or below on a rough surface, but with 63 percent of drops occurring between waist and shoulder height, according to Corning, the goal was to increase the total fall distance that a Gorilla Glass-topped phone could withstand.
Gorilla Glass 5 promises to brush off drops of up to 1.6 meters (5 feet, 2 inches) based on Corning's tests, making it almost four times more resistant than regular, unstrengthened glass, the company says.
About 4.5 billion of the world's phones use Gorilla Glass on their displays, and you'll find the topper expanding beyond these pocket-size devices. This year, Ford announced that the 2016 GT model will have Gorilla Glass windshields. Some ATMs will even sport an antimicrobial version of Gorilla Glass on their displays.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:01PM
1. I vaguely remember when Gorilla Glass 3 came out... in 2013 It seems they are iterating the product every 1-2 years. How much improvement could there really be in each new generation, considering this is a chemistry/physics problem?
2. Will Corning Gorilla Glass even matter in a few years? Bendable displays should be capable of being dropped off a roof and surviving (other components could have trouble).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:09PM
They probably just make it thicker, and I'm sure there are some molecular changes they can make.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:21PM
Thicker isn't considered an improvement. For example [wikipedia.org]:
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:39PM
"Don't eat that, Elmer. That's horse shit." Sounds like typical marketing BS to me. They pretty much go on and on about something every couple of years. If you believe their marketing, you'd think the glass would be invincible and unbreakable by now.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:54PM
Bingo! It's not about making your screen stronger and doesn't need to. I've only had one broken screen in twenty years of cell phones, but several have drowned. I started carrying a baggie in my pocket for when I was caught in a downpour, but the one I have now is waterproof.
Thinner glass means a thinner phone.
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:16PM
My screen cracked (without dropping it) recently. Since there's no way to prove that it wasn't a drop, I can't really do anything about it. I bought a replacement for $40 and spent a night cursing at it while I replaced the damn thing, breaking some of the bezel in the process. It's not pretty, but it's fully functional again.
Honestly unsure of what happened to the screen. Only thing I can thing of, short of an actual defect, was that it was in the same pocket as my keys (which happens sometimes) and I brushed up against something, stabbing the screen with my keys.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 3, Informative) by Gravis on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:48PM
the issue is not what to make but how to manufacture it. basically, i can tell you a sheet of carbon all connected by five bonds would be a great screen but then actually manufacturing perfect sheets of diamond is an issue.