Gorilla Glass: The technology behind new genaration smartphone glass has progressed along with the all other growing tech. The newer your phone is, the stronger the glass on it. If you’ve ever wondered what kind of glass is used on smartphone, read on to find out
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Before buying any new phone almost all of us usually never forget to check the display like which version of Gorilla Glass is used. But why Gorilla Glass? Don’t have other option?
How “Gorilla Glass” became king of display?
Gorilla Glass is the brand name for the Corning Corporation. Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton. after more than 100 years of manufacturing of various glass products in the 1960’s, Corning developed Chemcor glass, a chemically strengthened glass that was intended to be used in phone booths, prison windows, eyeglasses and automobile windshields. Chemcor was strengthened chemically through a process called ion exchange, which allows smaller ions from the glass to be replaced with larger ions from a chemical bath. As a result, the surface of the glass became highly compressed, and therefore less prone to the introduction of damage and the application of stresses that could lead to breakage. Chemcor was designed to be chemically strengthened, although it did not ultimately find its way into the intended applications as a fully-commercialized product line. However, decades later in 2005, Corning executives realized that there would soon be a need for a strong, durable glass that could be used on a variety of mobile electronics applications. While Chemcor was not the right product for mobile consumer electronics, it and the history of chemical strengthening offered scientists an entry-point.
The result was Gorilla Glass: a different glass composition and product than Chemcor. Significant compositional and ion-exchange processes were invented to achieve superior product characteristics including outstanding damage resistance and retained strength, while also optimizing the glass for production on Corning’s proprietary fusion-draw manufacturing process.
That process bore fruit just two years later, when the first generation of Gorilla Glass was released on first generation smartphones. That journey has continued. Today Gorilla Glass has served 8 billion mobile devices around the world. It’s the result of decades of work researching ways to strengthen glass and a belief that core research is worthwhile.
| The turning point for Corning came when Apple approached it to develop a robust display screen for its upcoming iPhone. Steve Jobs was behind this world changing idea. He approached the executives at Corning with a need for miles of durable glass for his new product from Apple, the iPhone. Corning dusted off their old product they created in the 1960s called Chemcor, and the rest is history. Today Gorilla Glass is the only option almost for every manufacturer for a budget phone. Chances are like, if you have a smart phone or tablet from any manufacturer, Gorilla Glass is on it. Hard work reflect always. |
Latest version by Corning
latest version of Gorilla Glass “Victus 2” was introduced on November 30, 2022. Gorilla Glass Victus 2 was first used on the Samsung Galaxy S23 series in 2023.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/gorilla-glass-victus-future-smartphones-all-in-the-glass/
Sapphire – second hardest mineral on earth
But wait something have more costlier, Sapphire is the second hardest mineral on earth, right behind diamond, so it makes sense that someone would develop it for use on smartphones. There is only one phone in the world that uses a sapphire screen, the Vertu Ti. The Vertu Ti is an Android mobile phone made by Vertu in England. The technology of Sapphire is still being under developed, but it’s in the works. Sapphire is almost completely scratch proof, which gives it an advantage over Gorilla Glass. Every time that a Gorilla Glass surface is scratched, it’s weakened. As the scratches build up, the screen becomes weaker. Apple elected to use sapphire glass on the Apple Watch. Others manufauturer also interested to try Sapphire but the result of the production won’t seems to be pocket freindly for consumer.
Japan also doing research & development on mobile display, introduced some variant also which are using by manufacturer.
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Is Gorilla Glass Unbreakable?
No.
Does Gorilla Glass 5 scratch?
Yes.
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