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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday July 24 2016, @05:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the shattering-news dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:21PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:21PM (#379453) Journal

    Thicker isn't considered an improvement. For example [wikipedia.org]:

    Gorilla Glass 4, with better damage resistance and capability to be made thinner with the same performance as its predecessor, was announced at the end of 2014.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:39PM (#379458)

    "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

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday July 24 2016, @06:54PM (#379463) Homepage Journal

    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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