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Turing Near Ready To Ship World's First Liquid Metal Android Smartphone
MojoKid writes: Liquid Metal is an alloy metal (technically, bulk metallic glass) that manages to combine the best features of a wide variety of materials into one product. Liquid Metal also has high corrosion resistance, high tensile strength, remarkable anti-wear characteristics and can also be heat-formed. Given its unique properties, Liquid Metal has been used in a number of industries, including in smartphones. Historically, it has been limited to small-scale applications and pieces parts, not entire products. However, Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) just announced pre-orders for the world's first liquid metal-frame smartphone. The Turing Phone uses its own brand of Liquid Metal called Liquidmorphium, which provides excellent shock absorption characteristics. So instead of making a dent in the smartphone casing or cracking/chipping like plastic when dropped, a Turing Phone should in theory "shake it off" while at the same time protecting the fragile display from breaking. The Turing Phone does not come cheap, however, with pricing starting at $610 for a 16GB model and escalating quickly to $740 and $870 respectively for the 64GB and 128GB models, unlocked. Pre-orders open up on July 31.
It's overkill. An awesome material used to create a mere toy for narcisists that will be discarded in one year. Seriously, who cares about corrosion resistance when the phone is considered obsolete before it gets out of the shop? Do we really need all these high tech alloys in our landfills?
They don't dent. They don't chip.
I on the other hand have a perfectly working phone covered in dents, chipped off paint (actually there's no chrome bezel around my Galaxy anymore) and cracks in the housing.
Maybe it all comes down to how you drop it and on what surface?