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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UPDATE: Corning Gorilla Glass 3 strength test demo video from CES 2013! Today, Corning announced Gorilla Glass 3 and their plans to showcase the new glass technology for smartphones and tablets next week at the International CES 2013 in Las Vegas. The third generation of Gorilla Glass is said to be three times more...
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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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Corning, the great minds behind Gorilla Glass 2, has posted a followup video to their inspiring “A Day Made of Glass” vision of the future. “A Day Made of Glass 2: Unpacked” takes off where the last video left off by showcasing how specialty glass can be used to our benefit in the future....
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At CES 2012 in Las Vegas, we stopped by Corning’s booth to check out their next generation Gorilla Glass 2, which improves upon the previous hardened glass technology by going thinner while maintaining the same durability. In the video above, Corning compares Gorilla Glass 2 to the previous generation and other chemically strengthened glass...
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Corning will introduce Gorilla Glass 2 to the world at CES 2012 in Las Vegas next week. They’re keeping details about the latest mobile glass technology a secret, but we should know more when they make their official announcement on January 9th. Read on through for the full press release. CORNING, N.Y., January 05,...
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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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Corning made a somewhat surprising announcement today through Twitter stating that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus does not feature their hardened Gorilla Glass. It probably won’t matter to those who have the highly anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich-powered handset in their sights, but it’s still worthy to note, considering most high-end Android smartphones seem to have...
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The folks at ASUS gave the Transformer Android Honeycomb tablet a thorough scratch test and filmed it for our viewing pleasure. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF101 features a chemically strengthened screen made up of Corning Gorilla Glass that helps protect it from bumps and scratches – keeping your tablet looking bright and new...
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The NEC Medias N-04C was outed just a few days ago thanks to some leaked pictures, but now it’s official. NTT DOCOMO introduced the Android handset in Japan, and naturally, they’re claiming it as the world’s thinnest smartphone at just 7.7mm thick. For comparisons sake, the Samsung Galaxy S II and Sony Xperia Arc...
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The Motorola Atrix 4G is finally available at AT&T stores, which means obligatory teardown images are in order. As usual, the guys at iFixit have ripped the latest and possibly greatest Android device to shreds to reveal its guts. The Atrix 4G, which we took a look at when it was announced at CES...
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In this video, we unbox the Dell Venue Pro, one of the more uniquely designed Windows Phone 7s on the market at this time. It houses a 1GHz processor, 8 or 16GB of storage, 5 megapixel camera with flash (720p recording), and 4.1″ WVGA AMOLED display with curved Gorilla glass. The form factor is...
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Does your smartphone come with Gorilla Glass? Sure, it has a funky name, but it’s also a name you would want to see in a spec sheet for any phone you’re thinking of purchasing. Why? Simply put, because it’s much, much stronger and more scratch resistant than most displays. Many current generation smartphones use...
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