The Gorilla Glass 5 is the latest in glass technology developed by Corning. Recently, the glass company released the product, calling it the "super glass". Here are ways that smartphones become indestructible.
Smartphones can resist breaking even if it fell from anywhere that's two meters high.
This version of the Gorilla Glass was designed to resist breaking when dropped from the waist to shoulder height. Corning said that the new version did not break 80 percent of the time when dropped from 1.6 meters.
Rough surfaces will not scratch the phone's display.
Corning's research indicated that delicate smartphones are most affected when being picked from the user's pocket. These kind of phones are also easily scratched when placed on a rough-covered table or shelf.
The Gorilla Glass 5 will remain scratch-free even if it hits course edges. The glass company was even able to prove that phones were not harmed when in contact with a sharp object.
It's a tempered glass built to resist anything.
Corning developed the Gorilla Glass and created an alkali-aluminosilicate sheet to protect device surfaces from any type of impact. This type of safety glass, if the user manages to break it, crumble in granular chunks instead of big shards, protecting the user against injury
The glass is only 0.6 mm thin.
The thinness of the glass makes smartphones thinner and lighter. The user then will have a more comfortable experience when using a phone, and lower the chances of dropping it. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM), however, might see different results depending on the design they use.
Gorilla Glass protects 4.5 billion devices worldwide.
This indestructible glass is so effective that almost all devices use it. Major players in the tech industry such as Samsung, HP, Dell and Lenovo use the Gorilla Glass.
Corning is now exploring the use of the glass on car windows and walls.
