Corning is the company behind these resistant Glasses and at an event at its office in Palo Alto, California, the super-resistant & tough Gorilla Glass 5 was presented.
The previous version of the glass (gorilla glass 4), which was launched back in 2014 could withstand a drop at about pocket level or below on a rough surface, but with 63 percent of drops occurring between waist and shoulder height. According to John Bayne, Vice President and manager at Corning "We wanted to go higher than the 1 meter drop" - he said.
Based on Corning's test, Gorilla Glass 5 can survive drops of up to 1.6 meters (5 feet, 2 inches), making it almost four times more resistant than regular glass.
In the past few years, about 4.5 billion of the world's phones use Gorilla Glass on their displays. This year Ford announced that the 2016 GT model will have Gorilla Glass Windshields and even some ATMs will soon have an antimicrobial version of Gorilla Glass on their displays.
Although, Corning did not specify what devices will be sporting Gorilla Glass 5, but they did say we can expect it in some new devices hitting the market this fall.
Can't wait to see the list of phones that'll feature it. Very good.
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ReplyDeletePack of lies, this gorilla glass can't survive our harmatan. I used it once.
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