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The Back of the iPhone 4 is Not Gorilla Glass

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SomeDudeAsking

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I've seen videos of Gorilla glass devices like the Dell Streak being hammered and thrown and the glass just brushed it off like nothing. I just dropped my iPhone 4 on my driveway with a bumper case on it and the back totally shattered with spider webs. The drop was like less than a meter and landed flat back. It is definitely not gorilla glass, seems like it is cheap run of the mill window glass that shatters into shards (which my back did and a few pieces almost came off).
 
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LIVEFRMNYC

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I doubt the market for cases would be as huge if everyone actually thought the iPhone glass was that tough.
 
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icstars989

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Gorilla Glass isn't miracle glass. A lot of android phones use it, and those break too. Granted it is stronger than the iphones, but when it comes down to it, glass is gonna break my man.
 
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wordoflife

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SomeDudeAsking said:
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I've seen videos of Gorilla glass devices like the Dell Streak being hammered and thrown and the glass just brushed it off like nothing. I just dropped my iPhone 4 on my driveway with a bumper case on it and the back totally shattered with spider webs. The drop was like less than a meter and landed flat back. It is definitely not gorilla glass, seems like it is cheap run of the mill window glass that shatters into shards (which my back did and a few pieces almost came off).
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Did Apple ever say it was gorilla glass?
Anyways, it should be $29 to replace via Apple.
 
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iApples

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SomeDudeAsking said:
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I've seen videos of Gorilla glass devices like the Dell Streak being hammered and thrown and the glass just brushed it off like nothing. I just dropped my iPhone 4 on my driveway with a bumper case on it and the back totally shattered with spider webs. The drop was like less than a meter and landed flat back. It is definitely not gorilla glass, seems like it is cheap run of the mill window glass that shatters into shards (which my back did and a few pieces almost came off).
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It costs almost nothing to fix the back. At least it wasn't the front.
 
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BlaqkAudio

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Gorilla Glass is just specially tempered glass. If there was great enough force to the middle or edge of the glass, or concentrated enough into a point, the glass still shatters.
 
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drummr

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The back is not the same glass as the front, that's why it's so cheap to replace and why it scratches much easier.
 
vincenz

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rndthm said:
The front is gorilla glass
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There is absolutely no proof of this. Apple presumably would not spend millions of dollars in licensing to make iPhones with Gorilla Glass. The Gorilla Glass rumor has been around since the launch of the 4, but there has been no solid proof that is the actual product from Corning.
 
oakie

oakie

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vincenz said:
There is absolutely no proof of this. Apple presumably would not spend millions of dollars in licensing to make iPhones with Gorilla Glass. The Gorilla Glass rumor has been around since the launch of the 4, but there has been no solid proof that is the actual product from Corning.
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true, but it is a tempered aluminosilicate glass that has the same features of corning's gorilla glass. i think peple just call it that out of sheer ignorance or are too lazy to type, "tempered aluminosilicate glass compound"
 
The Californian

The Californian

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oakie said:
true, but it is a tempered aluminosilicate glass that has the same features of corning's gorilla glass. i think peple just call it that out of sheer ignorance or are too lazy to type, "tempered aluminosilicate glass compound"
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Or the same reason that all tissues are called Kleenex or all lip balms are called Chapstick.
 
BlindMellon

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all though i skipped the iphone 4 and perhaps the iphone 5 as well, if i did get one of these, i would just go ahead and by a couple of backs while i was at it.
 
iAmYou

iAmYou

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George Knighton said:
Sounds to me like you're about due to drop your iPhone.

Tomorrow.

Don't get paranoid, though.

:)
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Don't worry I wont.
If I do happen to drop it, $29 fixes the back. If the whole thing goes $199 gets me a new one. Not really a big deal.
 
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rndthm

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vincenz said:
There is absolutely no proof of this. Apple presumably would not spend millions of dollars in licensing to make iPhones with Gorilla Glass. The Gorilla Glass rumor has been around since the launch of the 4, but there has been no solid proof that is the actual product from Corning.
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Apple will not tell what the glass is and corning is not going to admit. The gorilla glass in the iphone is made at the corning plant in Harrodsburg, KY.
 
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