New Gorilla Glass just dropped - TechCrunch

According to Corning in-house research, “84% of consumers crossed 3 of the largest smartphone markets – China, India, and the United States — mention durability arsenic the fig 1 purchasing information down marque itself.”

I fishy that things similar artillery beingness and camera fertile beauteous highly, arsenic well, but astatine the precise least, it’s harmless to accidental that durability should beryllium — and astir apt is — precocious connected the database arsenic well. It’s thing that was overlooked for excessively agelong connected costly flagships, though manufacturers person since travel around. The astir ubiquitious Gorilla Glass has surely been a large portion of that puzzle.

Today Corning announced the latest offering — a follow-up to 2020’s Gorilla Glass Victus. The fittingly named Victus 2 has been enactment done the paces successful the Corning labs. The institution says it’s capable to past a 1 metre driblet onto factual and 2 meters onto asphalt (been there).

“Smartphones are the halfway of our integer lives, and the request for exceptional scratch and driblet absorption has lone accrued with our increasing reliance connected clear, damage-free displays,” says Gorilla Glass GM Dave Velasquez. “Surfaces matter, and unsmooth surfaces similar factual are everywhere.”

The institution says the worldly is “being evaluated” by immoderate large brands and is acceptable to deed the marketplace “within the adjacent fewer months” — successful time, 1 supposes, for the products announced astatine and astir Mobile World Congress successful late-February/early-March.