Gorilla Glass Victus 2 Should Protect Your Phone Against Tougher Falls - CNET

Your adjacent smartphone whitethorn beryllium amended astatine withstanding drops connected concrete, if Corning's caller solid lives up to its claims. The institution introduced Gorilla Glass Victus 2 connected Wednesday, the latest iteration of its durable solid for smartphones. Corning says the caller solid should supply amended driblet absorption connected rougher surfaces.

The announcement is important due to the fact that Corning's Gorilla Glass tin beryllium recovered connected salient smartphones from companies similar Samsung and Google, perchance providing a preview of what to expect from adjacent year's caller devices. The archetypal products to diagnostic the caller solid should deed the marketplace successful the adjacent fewer months, though Corning couldn't stock further details. Corning's much durable smartphone solid arrives amid a renewed involvement successful extending the lifespan of mobile devices, for some environmental and economic reasons. 

Among the biggest differences betwixt Gorilla Glass Victus 2 and the existent mentation is that the caller iteration should amended withstand drops connected tougher surfaces. The caller solid was capable to endure falls from up to 1 metre onto a aboveground replicating factual successful laboratory tests, the institution says. The existent Gorilla Glass Victus, by comparison, was tested connected surfaces meant to simulate asphalt.

"We had to find an adjacent tougher trial to interrogate the surface," said John Bayne, elder vice president and wide manager of Corning's mobile user electronics division. "And factual is precisely that. It's really much challenging than asphalt." 

The institution uses materials that replicate factual alternatively of existent factual due to the fact that real-world surfaces degrade aft repetitive drops, Corning said.

Gorilla Glass Victus 2 should besides supply amended screen solid extortion for larger and heavier phones, according to Corning. The trial puck that the institution uses to simulate the size and value of a existent telephone during the investigating process is present astir 15% heavier to much accurately bespeak today's larger size devices. That could beryllium peculiarly utile for foldable phones similar the Galaxy Z Fold 4, which weighs 263 grams, making it noticeably heavier than adjacent the 228-gram Galaxy S22 Ultra. The Galaxy Z Fold 4's screen surface and rear solid already usage Corning's Gorilla Glass Victus Plus, which is simply a mentation of the solid that's exclusive to Samsung's Galaxy devices.   

Corning typically releases caller versions of its solid each 18 to 24 months, Bayne said. But the accomplishment of Gorilla Glass Vicus 2 comes arsenic consumers person been holding onto their devices for longer periods of time, underscoring the request for much durable products. 

Data from Assurant, an security supplier that besides helps companies develop instrumentality trade-in programs, suggests that consumers are present waiting 3 and a fractional years earlier trading successful their devices to upgrade to a caller phone. Two smartphone screens are besides cracked each 2nd successful the US, according to a 2021 study from the electronics repair marque UBreakIFix.

Part of the crushed wherefore radical whitethorn not beryllium upgrading their phones arsenic often arsenic they utilized to is that yearly upgrades aren't arsenic compelling arsenic they utilized to be. But Bayne thinks there's inactive plentifulness of country for smartphone durability to improve, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to processing solid that's pugnacious but besides thin. 

"Our enactment volition ne'er beryllium done, to archer you the truth," helium said.