New version of Gorilla Glass used in iPhone and Samsung devices could help make smashed screens a thing of the past
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robyns tut's curator insight,
October 14, 2013 5:20 PM
This is a useful article, as phones are always unreliable and freeze. Most of the time you don't know what to do when your phone freezes, so here are some helpful hints. - Sara
robyns tut's comment,
October 16, 2013 5:14 AM
while technonlgy is great when it works when it doesnt we dont know what to do and this is helpful as it teaches us how to solve the problem ourselves without having to take it to someone to fix a minor problem - shannon wilson
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Glass-maker Corning has unveiled a new version of its Gorilla Glass used in the majority of smartphone displays, which it says is twice as likely to survive being dropped. As phones get bigger, and come with glass on the back as well as the front, the potential for smashed devices has increased. While cases have helped, even heavily protected phone screens still end up shattered from impact and then stress from being bent, squeezed or bumped in a pocket or bag. Gorilla Glass 6 is a new chemically strengthened and highly compressed glass that Corning says has twice the drop protection of its Gorilla Glass 5. “With breaks during drops being a probabilistic event, the added compression helps increase, on average, the likelihood of survival through multiple drop events,” said Dr Jaymin Amin, vice president of technology and product development at Corning. The new glass survived an average of 15 drops from 1m on to rough surfaces in lab tests compared to 11 for the previous version, meaning it should be more resistant to multiple drops. “Gorilla Glass 6 improves upon Gorilla Glass 5 by surviving drops from higher heights, but, more importantly, has been engineered to survive multiple drops,” said John Bayne, vice president and general manager for Corning Gorilla Glass.