Corning has Gorilla Glass 4 announced. Where the previous generation of hardened glass for smartphones especially against scratch file should be, Corning is now focused on protecting the glass in the fall.
Corning claims the fall of hundreds of devices on a range of surfaces have been studied and the analyses used in the development of the new generation of the glass. The company claims new methods for internal testing established that realworld-falls to simulate. Devices with Gorilla Glass 4 were from a meter height above the sandpaper is released. Mainly falls on rough surfaces like asphalt or concrete would for cracks ensure and the sandpaper had to simulate it. Gorilla Glass 4 would fall here, 80% of the time survive.
Corning says that productsampling and the first deliveries to smartphonefabrikanten ‘on arrival’. When the first smartphones with Gorilla Glass 4 will appear is, however, not known. Virtually all the major smartphonefabrikanten, including Samsung, Apple, LG, HTC, Motorola, and Microsoft to make use of the hardened glass from Corning. The company has various competitors, including the Japanese Dragontrail.
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