Who Says Gorillas and Glass Don't Mix

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Gorilla Glass 6 is being announced by Corning today. If you have a smartphone and have dropped it and it did not shatter the screen into a million pieces, you have Gorilla Glass. If you have a smartphone and you dropped it, and it did not shatter, you were smart enough to put a case on it. Are we clear now? I decided to roll the dice and not put a screen protector on my Pixel 2 phone with uses Gorilla Glass 5 and it still looks like the day I lovingly peeled the plastic off. New Gorilla Glass 6 should improve the drop height but has been specifically engineered to survive multiple drops. Of course we all know that dropping it on the carpet and onto a bed of diamond stalagmites can reder very different outcomes.


“Gorilla Glass 6 is an entirely new glass composition that can be chemically strengthened to give it significantly higher levels of compression than is possible with Gorilla Glass 5. This enables Gorilla Glass 6 to be more resistant to damage,” said Dr. Jaymin Amin, vice president of technology and product development, Corning Gorilla Glass and Corning Specialty Materials. “Moreover, with breaks during drops being a probabilistic event, the added compression helps increase, on average, the likelihood of survival through multiple drop events.”

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I still see lots of phone screens that look like halloween decorations. No idea how people do it. I have had touch screen smart phones going back to an LG Windows Mobile 6.1 phone that came out before the iPhone and never broken a screen.
 
Most times they say "we made it stronger, so we could make it thinner!" and ended up with the same durability but 5 microns thinner. I'll hold off applause until this is proven clearly superior.
 
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Ultima99 said:
Most times they say "we made it stronger, so we could make it thinner!" and ended up with the same durability but 5 microns thinner. I'll hold off applause until this is proven clearly superior.
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But you'll never know because like you said, it's thinner. I'd much rather have a 1 mm thick slab of the new stuff and not have to worry about encasing my georgeous $1000 phone in $60 worth of rubber.
Besides, the extra weight and additional thickness with a thicker crystal will never be more than what a case adds. But it would cut into their profits and money made from repairs.
They could also make the phone waterproof, but now I'm just jabbering.
 
Why don't phones come with Shappire glass? I have a Garmin watch with Sapphire glass and just the other day I was under the car and forgot I had taken my watch off. I got our and moved the jack over and lifted the car on the other side. Finished my work and then wondered where my watch went. It was under the jack. Like, under a cross support off the jack, with the cars weight on it.

Not even a scratch.
 
Spaceninja said:
I still see lots of phone screens that look like halloween decorations. No idea how people do it. I have had touch screen smart phones going back to an LG Windows Mobile 6.1 phone that came out before the iPhone and never broken a screen.
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same, i've only had one screen crack and i had to intentionally do it because why the hell not since i finally replaced the phone after 7 years, lol. i still prefer having my phone in a case with the tempered glass protector because phones now are to thin for my guerrilla hands..
 
I'm sure mine has gorilla glass..can't say I care. I slap it in an otter box as I don't feel like plunking down $700+ because they also choose to make the damn things super slippery as well. I really don't give a shit what it looks like, it is a phone. As long as it works and is protected that is all that I really care about. Caring about the looks of something that spends most of its life in your pocket is a level of vanity I simply cannot comprehend.
 
but gorillas and glass dont mix

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I have been using a smart phone for 7+ years and I have never put a scratch or crack on any of my screens and I don't use screen protectors (and on one of my phones I didn't even use a case). I am a responsible adult that actually takes care of their things. (I also don't have children or pets to break things either.)
 
[21CW]killerofall said:
I have been using a smart phone for 7+ years and I have never put a scratch or crack on any of my screens and I don't use screen protectors (and on one of my phones I didn't even use a case). I am a responsible adult that actually takes care of their things. (I also don't have children or pets to break things either.)
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well I drink a lot.
 
auntjemima said:
Why don't phones come with Shappire glass? I have a Garmin watch with Sapphire glass and just the other day I was under the car and forgot I had taken my watch off. I got our and moved the jack over and lifted the car on the other side. Finished my work and then wondered where my watch went. It was under the jack. Like, under a cross support off the jack, with the cars weight on it.

Not even a scratch.
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They tried. Apple even bought a sapphire ingot company. Its just impossible to grow them at apple volumes.
 
Spaceninja said:
I still see lots of phone screens that look like halloween decorations. No idea how people do it. I have had touch screen smart phones going back to an LG Windows Mobile 6.1 phone that came out before the iPhone and never broken a screen.
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Gorilla Glass is created with thermal stress (or thermal tension), and once you introduce a defect on to the exterior of the glass it becomes very fragile. Take a look at this video of a Prince Rupert's Drop, which shows some of the principles of high tension glass. Interesting stuff.
 
It seems to me the best solution for phones would be the shatterproof plastic screens (as mentioned by Tiberian above), with replaceable scratch-resistant tempered glass screen protectors on top. Gets you the best of both worlds in terms of shatter & scratch resistance.
 
[21CW]killerofall said:
I have been using a smart phone for 7+ years and I have never put a scratch or crack on any of my screens and I don't use screen protectors (and on one of my phones I didn't even use a case). I am a responsible adult that actually takes care of their things. (I also don't have children or pets to break things either.)
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You must live in a padded clean room. My devices interact with dust and sand on a regular basis - which are very abrasive. I guess you don't shove your phone into a pocket or purse, where it interacts with keys and change and stuff.
 
Trimlock said:
I live life dangerously, I don’t use cases or screen protection.
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I'm with you here. Before my current phone, the two previous phones were Nokia. I didn't have cases or screen protection for either of them. It was never a problem. Never even scratched. Granted, I only dropped them once or twice and never more than a couple of feet, knocking it off a table or something like that. I'm not too clumsy with the phone and I make sure not to put it in the same pocket with keys etc. I do have a case on my current phone (Galaxy 9S+) but only because of the excessive use of glass making the phone a lot more slippery than I like.
 
Joust said:
You must live in a padded clean room. My devices interact with dust and sand on a regular basis - which are very abrasive. I guess you don't shove your phone into a pocket or purse, where it interacts with keys and change and stuff.
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I keep my phone in my left front pocket, by itself. I do get a little dust but it is very minor. Of course the screen is going to get scratched if you put other things near it (like together in a pocket). that is why I purposefully keep it separated. I keep my wallet and keys in my front right pocket (I never pay cash for things so I don't carry change).
 
Not sure if it was stated yet but the main benefit was always scratch resistance, not shatter resistance.
Good that they are incorporating it, since many people have always incorrectly assumed shatter resistance was what the product was designed for.
 
I gave up my smartphone 6 years ago, you insensitive clod. The first few months sucked, then I realized they're useless to me
 
Krazy925 said:
I’m not crying I have allergies :cry: I just miss him so much.
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My uncle trained the guy that had to put Harambe down. He said it was awful having to shoot him, but doubly so the fallout he had to deal with from the idiot PETA crowd, death threats etc.
 
nightanole said:
They tried. Apple even bought a sapphire ingot company. Its just impossible to grow them at apple volumes.
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GT Advanced Technologies. And their collapse created some of the most amazing schadenfreud in history.

I am dead meat. All my money is in GTAT and on my stocks I was doing margin... Basically my net loss is around $750K in stocks and $140K in options. All my earnings for the past 15 years are gone in one night.
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My mxpe "XT1575" is gorilla glass 3. Wow, my phone is old. I use a glass made pleson screen protector with an otterbox case. Dropping my phone out of a 4x4 truck onto gravel, running to the bus and dropping the phone from chest high, the $7 screen protector & otterbox is worth it.


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The glass has a weakness. I managed to break mine by dropping it on hard pavement right on the corner. Took my case off because, "it felt better in my hand."
 
Joust said:
You must live in a padded clean room. My devices interact with dust and sand on a regular basis - which are very abrasive. I guess you don't shove your phone into a pocket or purse, where it interacts with keys and change and stuff.
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I've owned smartphones since windows mobile 6 was new and have yet to ever scratch or break one. I don't use any cases. I put the phone in my pocket alone, along with anything soft if I need to like tissues. I use a different pocket for keys etc. :p
 
GoldenTiger said:
I've owned smartphones since windows mobile 6 was new and have yet to ever scratch or break one. I don't use any cases. I put the phone in my pocket alone, along with anything soft if I need to like tissues. I use a different pocket for keys etc. :p
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Generally, I'm a right front-pocket keys/change, right rear wallet, left front cellphone. 98% of the time. It's the 2% when I'm carrying some hardware (as in, screws or whatever) or something of the type that causes the damage. I've been through smart phones since the ''Droid" was a thing. I've damaged exactly one, it fell from my hand - not in a case - and broke on a low-pile industrial carpet floor. It functioned, but the display disconnected. Didn't even shatter or crack. I replaced it because it was several generations behind by then.

Notwithstanding, it's the 2%, not the 98%, that concerns me.
 
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