The generations of Gorilla Glass seem to have adopted the same philosophy as mobile hardware. Year after year its resistance to scratches and bumps is improved, but on a daily basis, the user continues to see how your iPhone screen breaks If you have a bad fall, you already know that luck is a fundamental factor in these cases.
Corning has announced the new Gorilla Glass 4 And this time they have focused on what really worries users: that if the mobile falls to the ground, its screen does not shatter. In their demonstration video we can see how they launch a model of a mobile from a height of one meter without damaging its screen.
This is due to a mechanical improvement in the properties of the material that makes it up to twice as resistant to other solutions such as aluminosilicate glass, another very competitive material in this sector. Laboratory tests that try to simulate a real environment have also served to determine that Gorilla Glass 4 survives 80% of the time (the other 20% is the bad luck that I mentioned at the beginning) and, finally, the glasses used in most devices today break with a 100% probability.
If the laboratory results translate into similar figures in real life, we are facing a substantial improvement that could also be ready for the iPhone 6s. The first units of Gorilla Glass 4 are already being sent to the manufacturers so that they have a first contact with it and if all goes well, we could see the first devices to incorporate it for the future. early 2015.
Do you think this time will be the final one and we will see a real resistance against falls?