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Phones Are Going to Get Tougher This Year Thanks to Gorilla Glass 5
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Time: 2016-07-21 03:40:55 UTC
Original URL: http://www.cnet.com/news/gorilla-glass-5-this-years-phones-are-about-to-get-tougher/#ftag=CAD590a51e [cnet.com]
Title: Phones are going to get tougher this year thanks to Gorilla Glass 5 - CNET
Suggested Topics by Probability (Experimental) : 17.2 hardware 13.8 mobile 10.3 science 10.3 digiliberty 10.3 code 10.3 business 10.3 OS 3.4 technomics 3.4 software 3.4 security 3.4 gaming 3.4 careers
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Phones are going to get tougher this year thanks to Gorilla Glass 5 - CNET
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story [cnet.com]:
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.
"We wanted to go higher than the meter drop," said John Bayne, Vice President and General Manager at Corning.
Corning's chemically-strengthened Gorilla Glass tops a heck of a lot of phones.
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 [soylentnews.org] announced that the 2016 GT model will have Gorilla Glass windshields [cnet.com]. Some ATMs will even sport an antimicrobial version of Gorilla Glass [cnet.com] on their displays.
The company didn't specify which devices will use Gorilla Glass 5, but it did say we can expect to find the material baked in to new products hitting the market this fall.
