Your Smartphone’s glass is about to get a whole lot stronger. Corning today unveiled the fifth generation of its Gorilla Glass, which it touts as being able to survive 1.6 meter (5.25 feet) drops as much as 80 percent of the time.
Gorilla Glass is Known for its strength, and is used by a huge range of phone Manufactures ,Infact ,According to corning, Gorilla Glass is or has been used by all major device manufactures at some point, ever if they don’t dispose it. The goal is not just to make glass stronger; it’s also to make it thinner.
The thickness of Gorilla Glass ranges from around 0.3mm to 1mm, however Corning says it’s testing glass in the 0.1 to 0.2mm range as well, something that could eventually help make phones and wearable’s thinner while retaining the same strength as previous iterations of Gorilla Glass and even making it stronger.