Watch Gorilla Glass 2 Get Stress Tested Against Other Glass

Looks pretty solid..Would've been nice to see a scratch resistant test though. My iphone 4 has still gotten scratches what looks like has been from my car keys

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.

Why don't they ever break the glass? I want to see how much force it can withstand

Looks very solid, thats with the force being focused on one spot. So it could easily take a lot more weight spread over the whole glass.

thanks...now i know where to look when i rob you, just kidding ;-)

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.

They can make glass bend like that but our phones still shatter anyway, eh.

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.

How about a plexiglass screen. It will definitely not shatter.
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.

So does this mean I can now safely play my Wii without putting on the stupid safety strap, and if I happen to launch the controller at the TV, it won't break if it has Gorilla Glass 2? Just curious. Someone should do that test.

Not even 130lbs from someone who might weight up to 170lbs. He wasn't even trying!

The reason they don't break it, simple: Look better.
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.

it's strong but i will still get scratches....why don't they do some drop tests and see how it gets shattered, drop it on a corner

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.

I wish Apple would use GG2. They still say that their screens are scratch proof.

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."

Dear all,

Can anyone tell me if this glass is bio degradable or at least can be recycled easily?

I imagine that it's not biodegradable,but it's glass so give it time and the elements and it will turn into it's base components, silica and probably what ever chemicals Corning used to make it. and since it's glass it can also be recycled given enough heat being applied to smelt it. Still though it's more environmentally friendly to have a phone with Gorilla Glass and keeping that glass through the lifetime of the device instead of having the same phone with weaker glass or with a screen protector being replaced every so often.

Hate to break it to you but you are dead wrong. I grew up in Corning and know a lot of engineers that work for Corning Inc, and they have admitted when I asked that my Iphone uses gorilla glass. Apple pays them to not advertise that so that it can do its own advertising.

Totally bogus stupid -- if they don't break the glass, it doesn't show that glass2 is any better than glass1. It only shows that for some reason, this demo wouldn't come out the way they want it to, so they didn't do it. I'm ok with gorilla glass, but if you want to sell this as something new, you have to actually show that it is something new. (Hey this phone book, I can't rip it in half with my bare hands. And now this new phone book is thinner, and I still can't rip it in half!)

Maybe they don't want the competition to know it.

Why would Apple *not* want to advertise Gorilla Glass? I bet its a cheaper variant.

um... that is exactly the point actually. If a product can withstand over a certain practical load then it can be considered to be 'good enough', and let me tell you 120lb of force on a single point is extremely impressive, and should not break under normal conditions. And to take 22% off the thickness and still have that kind of durability is no small accomplishment. And most of the time a phone will have a larger point of contact, which will require much more force to break the glass.
The whole point of any product is to make it strong enough that a company can stand behind the product, it is not to make something indestructible and price it out of the consumer's reach.

It isn't up on apples site anymore because the 4s is the Iphone product page now, but when the iphone 4 came out gorilla glass wasn't nearly as well known. Heck, even now in groups outside people who keep up on tech news and are into that kind of thing it is nothing more than a marketing term. Much easier for their target market to understand "we have really strong glass" than "we use gorilla glass".

Did they try using that much force on a 300Lbs Gorilla..... I wonder who'd crack after that....

Have had my galaxy S2 since June last year, and until now there's not a single scratch on the screen.
I don't even use a screen protector since this thing is strong enough...