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Phones Are Going to Get Tougher This Year Thanks to Gorilla Glass 5

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @05:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @05:59PM (#379443)

    Hey. What about the lowest hanging fruit?

    So the screen could take a rally car driving over it. But the other parts break if you drop it a foot, and the micro usb port breaks if you wiggle the connector the wrong way.