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Corning's New Gorilla Glass 6 Will Let Your Phones Survive 15 Drops (theverge.com)
Corning just announced its most durable glass yet: Gorilla Glass 6. "The company says that the glass will survive up to 15 drops from a one meter height and can be 'up to two times better' than Gorilla Glass 5," reports The Verge. From the report: As phones get slimmer and have ever sleeker glass displays, reports have appeared that the slimness may actually cancel out the improvements in new iterations of Gorilla Glass, since thinner glass is weaker glass, even if it's become stronger. Still Corning argues that sleek edge-to-edge displays have actually led to stronger smartphones. Sometimes, in smartphones of previous years, the bezel would crack first, then leading to a weakness in the glass. There's also a tradeoff between drop resistance and scratch resistance, which Corning has admitted to in the past. Corning says that Gorilla Glass 6 will have the same amount of scratch resistance as previous generations. So although the company claims the new generation of Gorilla Glass is "better," you shouldn't expect new phones made with the glass to be more scratch-resistant. The first devices to feature Gorilla Glass 6 are expected to arrive near the end of the year.
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If only they'd built it to withstand 16 drops! When will they learn?
It breaks on the 16th drop? Why not the 17th?
15 drops on what? A pillow? I kid of course, but the headline/summary mean nothing. My phone has gorilla glass and it's great.
IS five layers, with two digitizers.
Yes, it can be scratched, but they sell replaceable top layers for the beasts...
Much better than this gorilla GLASS thing. I mean, IS GLASS!!! By definition GLASS BREAKS!
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When will people stop being surprised at things like this?
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it's a $250 el cheap and has survived several pavement drops. The key is it's got a cheap, thin plastic back and a (by today's standards) thick bezel. Unless it lands on a rock it's fine.
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I'm wondering how "real world" they are.
I know something about packaging testing and you want to drop a box on each of it's six sides, six corners and along each of the eight edges.
How does that relate to a phone? What kind of tests do you do and what kind of surfaces? You can drop a box on concrete, metal or wood and you'll get the same answer. But if you drop a phone on different surfaces and at different angles, you'll see different problems with the glass and the frame.
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But we have 16 gorillas.
Table-ized A.I.
I don't know if it's still there, but Corning had an exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago that would drop an iron ball on a plate of glass. It had probably dropped thousands of times before I saw it. Pretty cool. Pretty old, too.
The glass in my last phone survived the drop just fine, but the LCD underneath it cracked like some marital arts master breaking the middle brick...
Do we really need our phones to be extra-ultra-special-slim?
So maybe 15 drops, maybe 1
I dropped a 2014 Moto X on the train once. First time ever dropped, screen shattered. I assume the floor of the train was vinyl covered steel.
My current Model 500 has been dropped perhaps hundreds of times over the last five decades. I only worry about what I drop it on.
Wow. Apple has created glass that can count so it can think too? I wonder how the glass feels about being "owned" by asshats.
To think they did this without Dead Steve.
Yes, we all need a 2mm phone with no bezel, to out in our inch-thick OtterBox which provides a 1/2 inch bezel.
64 drops ought to be enough for anybody
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Is Corning paying for this ad?
Somehow rings a bell, I'm sure I heard that before.
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15 shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be 15. 16 shalt thou not count, neither count thou 14, excepting that thou then proceed to 15. 17 is right out. Once the number 15, being the 15th number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Gorilla Glass of Antioch towards thy foe.
'nuff said
But if someone says that they took the stairs up to the roof, if they stopped halfway and then came down, then the claim would be untrue...
I have a stack of 6 iphones/ipads with cracked screens. The only one I own that isn't cracked is my first gen iPad. Most have died in the dreaded bathroom test. Toilet height screen flat down onto a tile floor. I really hope this is measurably better because the fact that the screen shatters so easily is really bad. Nintendo products don't have that issue. The iPad 1 didn't have that issue. Apple products just suck in comparison.
Thus negating all the materials gains.
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Aim for the throat, before it even rings.
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...the battery covers we put on them get bigger.
15 drops turns the phone off.
16 drops bricks it.
17 drops vaporizes it