Comments on: Video: Corning Introduces Gorilla Glass 2 At Their 2012 CES Booth

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:29:00 +0000

They developed a Gorilla Glass front for the iPhone 4, but Corning costs were too high for Apple. The iPhone 4 and 4s all use glass from Lens Technology and Fuji Crystal. They provide a glass with similar properties to Gorilla Glass for the LCD display, but Corning is not the supplier at this point. I think there were rumors of some initial batches of the iPhone 4 having Gorilla Glass, but even Apple reports their use of Lens Technology as the LCD glass supplier to shareholders. That supplier is actually part of the reason the white iPhone 4 was delayed.

By: Morgan Screen

Morgan Screen — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:19:00 +0000

this is cool but it still shatters when you drop it on a hard surface from about chest height

By: John Gaspardo

John Gaspardo — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:48:00 +0000

i see many of you don’t realize the benefits of thinner glass besides the obvious. it allows the screen to have less glare due to thick glass not to mention better picture because of optical refraction in the glass. so not only is it thinner it will also give you a better clearer picture and that’s why you want it better sunlight viewing for sure

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:47:00 +0000

Yes. The front is. While for some strange reason Apple nor Corning will admit or deny it, there’s also a whole piece in the Steve Job’s biography on it. Corning has a facility that solely does it.

By: kweber

kweber — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:37:00 +0000

iphone uses gorilla glass ??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Let’s say (for exaggeration) they made a new glass twice as thin with all the same properties. They could then theoretically place two slates of the glass on top of each other forming one that is twice as strong and identical to the original in every other way.

Maybe Corning could produce a 20% thicker version for 20% more strength without sacrificing screen visuals, touch sensitivity, etc.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:20:00 +0000

NANOOOOOO

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Gorilla Glass is strong. but it could be stronger. It breaks a lot too. People still crack there phones in a fall. There are certainly many iPhone and iPad users that can attest to that.

By: Adam Skinner

Adam Skinner — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:32:00 +0000

Gorilla Glass is awesome as it stands. It doesn’t need to be any stronger. By strengthening it, they could give an intangible benefit (“Look, something that doesn’t break already isn’t going to break *even more!!!*), or they could give a tangible benefit (“Look, we made this stuff a little stronger, so you can make it a little thinner”), which is something that is actually pretty cool. This makes the stuff less expensive to cover the same amount of space (potentially, since less of it is used), widening it’s reach.

By: Anthony Armando

Anthony Armando — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:05:00 +0000

the volunteer only broke regular, chemically strengthened, and CG1 glass. they used the machine to demonstrate CG2.

By: Highwire

Highwire — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:42:00 +0000

lolz at the guy who was rooting for 250lbs of force to break the GG2 apparently he missed the part where they said it has the same strength as GG1.

By: EC8CH

EC8CH — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:34:00 +0000

Wow .2mm thinner… that’s like 0.00787″

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:31:00 +0000

Have to agree, would have liked to have seen them improve the scratch/crack resistance. It’s already fairly thin.

By: Crackmonkeys4hire

Crackmonkeys4hire — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:26:00 +0000

With Samsung working on flexible handsets I expect in the next 5-10 years we’ll see devices made out of fully flexible materials. Image a cell phone you wrap around your wrist… lot’s to look forward to.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:20:00 +0000

I had that same thought at first too, why not have thicker glass that is stronger. While I don’t really care to have a super thin (less that 9mm) phone I do want more battery life. If all the other components can be made smaller and thinner their will be more room for larger batteries and we can have phones like the razr maxx that have 3300mAh batteries but are still thin.