In the video above, the Samsung Galaxy S4 Android smartphone gets put through a series of scratch tests with various knives, coins, a set of keys and a pen. The Galaxy S4′s Full Hd Super AMOLED display strengthened with Gorilla Glass 3 appears to have passed with flying colors. via
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Corning unveiled its new glass technology for smartphones and tablets, Gorilla Glass 3, at the International CES 2013 in Las Vegas. The third generation of Gorilla Glass is said to be three times more scratch resistant. According to Corning, Gorilla Glass 3 has been improved at the molecular level by implementing a feature called...
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Samsung has posted a video showing how they tested their 2012 flagship smartphone lineup consisting of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II. The Android handsets were apparently put through a litany of durability tests that some may consider smartphone abuse. The video demonstrates the load test, button press test (200-300g of pressure,...
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Curious to see how the Google Nexus 7 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet handles a chest-high drop test onto concrete? How about a submerge test in a bathtub? Check out the video below to see each scenario play out; you may be surprised of the results! Hint: $200 gadgets can be more durable than...
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A pair of YouTubers decided to test the strength of the Gorilla Glass 2 display on the HTC One X Android smartphone. Typically, a standard drop or scratch test suffices, but these fellas opted to use the handset as a hammer. One guy films, while the other uses the One X, screen-side down, to...
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What you’re about to see is painful to watch. In fact, we call it technology abuse. A guy on YouTube just put his new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which went on sale in the UK today, through a series of abusive tests, which includes scratching the beautiful 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display and dropping the...
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Corning has made quite a name for themselves with their Gorilla Glass brand of hardened display technology. At FPD International in Yokohama, Japan, Corning has now announced Lotus Glass. The environmentally friendly and high-performance display glass supports both organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays and next generation liquid crystal displays (LCD), which are found on...
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While we’re not a fan of the small screen size on Apple’s iPhone 4s, it’s certainly a beautifully designed device, at least aesthetically. That being said, we all know the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S aren’t the most durable devices with their double-sided glass enclosure design. On the other hand, Samsung opts to trade...
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