My iPhone 11 Pro is riddled with scratches on the screen. I feel that it’s actually worse than my previous iPhones.
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Corning Unveils New Scratch Resistant 'Gorilla Glass Victus' That Could Be Used in Future iPhones
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Whatever. Screen protector will be put on my phones when it goes out from its box.
I like it better with Android, where most of the phones come with screen protectors pre-applied in the factory, even if the phones have gorilla glass. It maximizes resell value.
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I like it better with Android, where most of the phones come with screen protectors pre-applied in the factory, even if the phones have gorilla glass. It maximizes resell value.
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I believe it's the balance between scratch resistance and drop resistance. The argument is that to improve drop resistance, the glass is made "softer," with the downside of less scratch resistance.
We need Scotty to teach us how to make transparent aluminum (which surely must be far harder than normal aluminum 
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In the meantime, I wonder why Apple doesn't use this:
en.wikipedia.org
It's nearly as hard (and thus as scratch-resistant) as sapphire; and given that it's used in bulletproof glass, it sounds like it's significantly tougher (i.e., more fracture-resistant).
I'm guessing possible issues could include cost, production volume, optical quality, and optical transparency (or that is actually not much tougher than sapphire), but it would be interesting to know.
):In the meantime, I wonder why Apple doesn't use this:
Aluminium oxynitride - Wikipedia
I'm guessing possible issues could include cost, production volume, optical quality, and optical transparency (or that is actually not much tougher than sapphire), but it would be interesting to know.
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tougher Gorilla glass is a marketing scam. Its the same crap every year
ProTip: It's always the same press release, they just change the date.
Jony Ive says of course it wont bend. It's still not thin enough. Now, we must tell Corning to further shave a few mm off the glass thickness.
I agree. I would love a phone with glass made from whatever they use to do their glass demo tests. That stuff is bendy and never scratches.
However, the glass in the phones break and scratch dead easy.
Yeah! Innovation sucks in the hands of individuals with butter fingers! 😂 🤦♂️
I've only shattered my screen once, when I still had the 3G. Since then, it's been a constant effort to keep it scratch free. 11 Pro has been the worst of all, even looking at it the wrong way can create these annoying hairline marks. Screen protectors help, but some are poorly designed, and at the end of the day I just want to enjoy this fantastic screen I paid €1300 for as-is.
I think you've mixed up Victus/victis there. Victus relates to nourishment and life... Victis to victim and defeat.
Thanks to advances in phone tech, my pockets have become much more phone friendly; I use Apple Pay (No wallets or loose change), I have a HomeKit lock (No home keys) and thanks to a push button start, my car keys live in my bag... The hardest thing in my pockets is the occasional plastic card. Yet my old iPhone X and current iPhone 11 screens have more scratches that ever before. So bad that I've Googled "iPhone glass quality' to see if it's just me.
I've never been happier with my iPhone's capabilities. I've never been more disappointed with its glass.
(Stainless steel Apple Watch series 4 on the other hard is INCREDIBLE - 2 years on, not the slightest scratch)
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Wake me up when they actually come out with a glass that is shatter & scratch proof. Until then, it just seems like they slap on a new name to the same old glass Saying it’s stronger....and yet like every iphone before it...they shatter & scratch.
The glass is getting better, but the phones are also getting larger and heavier, so the same glass on a small and light phone has a better chance ofr surviving than on a large heavy phone. The better glass allows the manufacturers to have thinner glass than they would have a couple years ago though. I've been using iPhones since 2007, only used a case for an hour (hated it) and never smashed or scratched a screen. Just have a dedicated pocket in your pants for the phone and don't put it upside down on a table all the time.
Thats because its not Sapphire Glass. Its some composite I believe. My 20 year old Tag Heur series 2000 has real sapphire glass and not one scratch.
YO! This exactly! lolz. Why the hell after 3 months on every model do I find a scratch on my display from just pulling it out of my pocket!? Lies! Lies! It's ever only just that ONE scratch.
It just stares at me till I get the next model.
I swear I'm ridiculously careful with these things.
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This is awesome. That looks like something that could finally reduce the number of shattered glass
Way to go, Corning. Keep up the good work
Brought to you by Corning. A paid sponsorer.
I wouldn't expect a web site named sciencearert dot com to be very accurate.All this jabber about new glass tech.
When it goes up a single level for Jerry's test THEN I will regard it as a reality improvement, and not just marketing bull.
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Five years ago....................
A New Transparent Metal Has Been Developed For Smartphone And TV Displays
A new type of metal that’s both highly transparent and electrically conductive has been developed by researchers in the US, and at less than 5 percent the cost of current displays, it could see far cheaper smartphones in our pockets and enormous 'smart windows' in our homes.www.sciencealert.com
What happened?
What I’ve noticed with the X and 11 Pro Max, is that both seemed to be more prone to micro-scratching, than previous versions. I actually replaced the X’s screen once due to significant scratching. I’ve had a thin film screen protector on my 11PM, which eliminated the problem, so my wife will get a mostly scratch-free device when I upgrade and pass the 11PM to her. I’ll add a film protector on the 12 Pro, regardless of what Apple or Corning says about the strength of the glass.
I’m not one to drop my device, so I’m less interested in crack resistance, preferring to have the screen stay scratch-free. My wife on the other hand needs both. She drops her XR almost every day and when it goes into her screen destroyer (aka, her purse), it seems to come out looking like it’s been through the front lines of a battle.
I’m not one to drop my device, so I’m less interested in crack resistance, preferring to have the screen stay scratch-free. My wife on the other hand needs both. She drops her XR almost every day and when it goes into her screen destroyer (aka, her purse), it seems to come out looking like it’s been through the front lines of a battle.
For this one we don't need the YouTube expert. Corning has already shown us the answer in the video.
