Corning's New Gorilla Glass 6 Will Let Your Phones Survive 15 Drops (theverge.com) 78
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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Gorilla glass seems so uninteresting after https://www.popularmechanics.c... [popularmechanics.com]
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Oh the fools! (Score:3)
If only they'd built it to withstand 16 drops! When will they learn?
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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...
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My phones have always handled any drops, without problems. Any damage has occurred at the time of impact - but the phone is no longer dropping at that point.
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I want my phone to be about 3/8" thick, and sport a large battery, a USB host connector and two external SD card slots.
It doesn't need to have an ethernet jack.
Yes, to put in in out inch-thick OtterBox case (Score:2)
Yes, we all need a 2mm phone with no bezel, to out in our inch-thick OtterBox which provides a 1/2 inch bezel.
Re: Oh the fools! (Score:1)
My last iPhone 6 did not crack in 3 years.
My new X got scratched by keys in the first month and cracked at the first drop.
Really fed up with jewellery design instead of a practical design.
All this glass makes it heavy as well.
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“Up to" means "less than".
I have up to a billion dollars in my pocket.
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“Up to" means "less than".
I have up to a billion dollars in my pocket.
That is the OP's point. Up to gives no meaningful information
I can certify any glass can withstand a million falls of "up to" a metre - by having those million falls be from a millimeter high.
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Similarly 0 falls of 1m is also "up to" 15
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That is the OP's point. Up to gives no meaningful information
Yes it does. If it can be dropped "up to" 15 times, that tells you it is guaranteed to break on or before the 16th drop.
"Up to" specifies a maximum, not a minimum.
Will it always break by the 16th drop? Unlikely, because the article is poorly worded crap, but certainly not because the phrase "up to" lacks mathematical rigor.
Up to (Score:2)
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...
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From the desk of Wendell Weeks, Chairman, President and CEO of Corning, Inc.
Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of smart phone glass in this country. The Gorilla Glass 4 was the glass to own. Then the other guy came out with a 14 drop glass. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the Gorilla Glass 5. That's good to 15 drops on concrete. From 1 meter. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happenedâ"the bastards
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I haven't read it since they either, this is the only thing I remember that was funny.
I agree I should have put attribution there:
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-... [theonion.com]
64 drops ought to be enough for anybody (Score:2)
64 drops ought to be enough for anybody
- BG
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It's a four bit material.
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I've always preferred hex glass myself. More drops per digit, y' know.
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On What? (Score:2)
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Take a clue from Motorola's shatershield tech (Score:3)
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!
More info here:
https://www.androidauthority.c... [androidauthority.com]
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By definition GLASS BREAKS
What dictionary did you roll up and smoke?
warranty void at one! (Score:2)
warranty void at one!
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FTFY. Fedex / ups will pre-drop your phone 14 times.
Strength vs hardness comes into play yet again (Score:2)
When will people stop being surprised at things like this?
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I've dropped my Android more than that (Score:4, Insightful)
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$250 is el cheap? My phone was $120 but after I bought it, I saw it about a month later on clearance for $80. It works pretty good, has lasted over a year now.
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Mine has glass back and probably wouldn't deal well with a pavement drop. But then I haven't dropped it since I got it three years ago. There's still a chance; I plan to get a new phone this October.
For me it's all about phone size. I'm quite safe with smaller phones (5-6" screens, current is 5.1) but I tend to fumble more with phablets and thus avoid them.
Anyway, anecdotes...
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What are the test conditions? (Score:3)
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.
Samsonite Phone (Score:1)
But we have 16 gorillas.
Old school glass (Score:2)
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It just has to impress schoolkids and give them something to look up to science about.
It doesn't need to impress jaded nerds on Slashdot.
"up to" (Score:2)
So maybe 15 drops, maybe 1
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Compared to Gorilla Glass 3? (Score:2)
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.
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It clearly says "up to" 15 drops. That's like the "up to" 100mbit you get on your internet connection. Maybe 100mbit around 4am, more likely 1kbit around prime time.
Remember: "0 times" is still well within any "up to" number.
Western Electric never needed this (Score:2)
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You should upgrade to a 2500 set. Touch tone dialing is a big improvement.
16 Drop Death Punch (Score:2)
Holy Gorilla Glass (Score:2)
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in thy mercy
Challenge accepted!! (Score:2)
As phones get slimmer ... (Score:2)
...the battery covers we put on them get bigger.
Extended SG1 rules apply (Score:1)
15 drops turns the phone off.
16 drops bricks it.
17 drops vaporizes it