Corning has just lifted the veil on the Gorilla Glass 6, a new generation of protective glass for smartphones. Thanks to a revolutionary new glass composition, the smartphones of the future will be able to survive 15 falls from a height of one meter, which is twice as good as the Gorilla Glass 5! These two videos show why.
Used by more than 45 manufacturers, such as Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi, and integrated into nearly 1,000 smartphone models, Corning’s Gorilla Glass screen protections already enjoy a solid reputation. With the Gorilla Glass 6, Corning wants to go even further and make our smartphones almost indestructible!
With the Corning Gorilla Glass 6, you won’t be afraid to drop your smartphone!
“During laboratory tests, the Gorilla Glass 6 survived 15 falls a metre high on rough surfaces,” explains Corning, noting that this feat makes this new generation of protection “twice as strong as the Gorilla Glass5”,which already equips flagships like the Galaxy S9, OnePlus 6 or Huawei P20. According to Corning, a typical user only drops his smartphone 7 times in the space of a year.
Corning also ensures that the Gorilla Glass 6 will also allow your smartphone to survive even more dizzying falls than the previous generation. As a reminder, the Gorilla Glass 5 protects your device from falls of 1.6 meters. Small disappointment: this new protective glass is no more resistant to scratches than its predecessor.
Currently in production, the Gorilla Glass 6 is expected to land in the coming months on most smartphones. For the time being, it is not known which future flagship will benefit first. In 2016, the infamous Galaxy Note 7 was the first smartphone to take advantage of the Gorilla Glass 5. In these conditions, all eyes are on the Galaxy S10, which is expected in early 2019. Will Samsung be able to put its rivals on the pole?
The American channel CNBC and the blog PhoneArena had the chance to visit the Corning technology center in Silicon Valley (California, USA). The first video details the process of making this particular glass. While the second focuses instead on the solidity of the glass. We learn that Corning had to test thousands of different compositions, for, with the help of computer simulations to achieve this result.
But also why innocuous falls can cause disasters while larger falls have a surprisingly small impact: the glass is less smooth than it appears to the naked eye, and is riddled with imperfections that damage its solidity. In addition, weather conditions and certain substances can change the properties of this material.
These videos are unfortunately in English, but in both cases it is possible to activate the subtitles.
