Watch Gorilla Glass 2 Get Stress Tested Against Other Glass
Gorilla Glass 2 could make your devices both thinner and stronger.
Having Gorilla Glass on a touch-device is a good bullet point to have. While the name may be marketing, the actual product is a huge plus for tablets and smartphones. In our experience, Gorilla Glass keeps touchscreens looking more pristine under harsh (or everyday use) conditions.
At CES 2012, Corning announced Gorilla Glass 2, which is just as tough as the original glass technology, but with an up-to-20 percent thinner profile. Corning says that thinner Gorilla Glass 2 will enable slimmer and sleeker devices, brighter images, and greater touch sensitivity.
We captured a strength test demo from the show floors of CES. Special thanks to Tom's Hardware reader Christopher Ly who volunteered to assist in the demo:
I became borderline religious about which pockets I use for what items after my old iPhone 3G got a nasty gouge in the middle of the screen. Keys, change, ID badges, etc. go in the right pocket. Phone, paper and other items softer than the screen go in the left.
iPhone 4 and 4S do NOT use Gorilla Glass. Fact.
I became borderline religious about which pockets I use for what items after my old iPhone 3G got a nasty gouge in the middle of the screen. Keys, change, ID badges, etc. go in the right pocket. Phone, paper and other items softer than the screen go in the left.
Yeah agreed. But my current phone uses Gorilla Glass 1 and it is pretty darn scratch proof. Not that I get my keys or coins and rub it across my screen. Just regular everyday use.
I think Samsung is suppose to come out with bending glass cellphones this year.
agreed. nice to see what does not brake it but a test is nor relevant without showing how much force breaks gorilla glass version one and version two. ambiguous results.
If, after a year of hard use, it is a bit scratched up you swap it for a new screen.
Plexiglass is not that expensive to make so a replacement screen could be $9.95 without a problem.
Because they can't
they tried though! LOL
iPhone 4 and 4S do NOT use Gorilla Glass. Fact.
Simply showing the glass breaking can have a bad impact on the vision of the product.
Or maybe the glass will shatter dangerously is it break this way...
That is probably because the iPhone 4 and 4S don't have Gorilla Glass, they use a different material which isn't as scratch resistant as Gorilla Glass.
Can you make touch sensitive screens using plexiglass though? I imagine not...
Yeah, as if we weren't past coke bottle glasses, now we can 'go retro' with brick sized phones with coke bottle screens.
I would rather have a $100+ screen that doesn't scratch, than have a $10 one that scratches the first time I drop my keys in the wrong pocket. Even getting a cheap screen replaced takes time, is inconvenient, and costs in labor.
My iPhone 3g is over 3 years old, been treated well, but have had accidents. Not one scratch on the glass itself, despite scratches on the back. The phone has been dropped 2-3 times, and I have slipped my keys in with it at least once.
My HTC Thunderbolt, just a week old at the time, got a single scratch on the digitizer large enough to catch your finger nail in it due to accidentally putting my keys in the same pocket. FAIL. Estimate for replacement of the digitizer is up to 3 weeks & $160.
Plexiglass has no scratch resistance at all. I don't want to be spending $10 a week to replace my phone's screen.
Not to mention the texture of plexiglass is NOT smooth like glass and would feel terrible under my fingers with a touchscreen.
ON another note, why does everyone keep talking about the iphone as if it has gorilla glass? It doesn't use gorilla glass. That is why your iphones are "scratching" and "gouging."