It's funny people who don't know anything about the glass know what devices use it. I'm not sure if any of the many other mobile device manufacturers state they use GG either, but they do.
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It's funny people who don't know anything about the glass know what devices use it. I'm not sure if any of the many other mobile device manufacturers state they use GG either, but they do.
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Note: The OEM Apple iPhone 4 Rear Housing/Battery Door Comes With The Camera Trim Ring, But Does Not Include The Flash Trim Ring.
Not OEM, just an expensive knockoff.
and you would know my background undergrad/professional degrees how ?
as someone stated, we don't know
you guys can believe/circle jerk/endlessly argue about rumors all you want
or just go on the facts/what's been presented/released
What facts are you going by?
The fact apple never said it does?
The fact that Dell and a host of other phones do use gorilla glass and state it and also gives credit to corning in there press release?
Fact Apple does not use gorilla glass. They use a version of their own. You can call it what you like, except gorilla glass because it's trademarked.
I'll call it monkey glass cause I've never seen or heard of so many cracks on such a new device. I'm just hoping I don't drop my iPhone 4 with 'Monkey glass'.
I just read an article in the paper today about Gorilla Glass (The Charlotte Observer).
The article states:
Whether Apple Inc. uses the glass is a much discussed mystery since "not all our customers allow us to say," said Jim Steiner, GM of Cornings' special materials division.
So they might. Or might not. It did say the Droid uses it.
The article states:
Whether Apple Inc. uses the glass is a much discussed mystery since "not all our customers allow us to say," said Jim Steiner, GM of Cornings' special materials division.
So they might. Or might not. It did say the Droid uses it.
Gorilla glass (or any tempered glass) shatters big time
The screen is tempered glass (Gorilla brand, or not). Tempering makes it stronger, but also causes it to shatter when normal glass would only develop a small chip. The problem is that the iPhone 4 design leaves the edges of the glass exposed, and makes it relatively easy for a moderately hard item to "tap" the edge hard enough to create a chip in the glass and destroy the screen.
The reason is that tempering places a thin outer layer of the glass in compression (glass is very strong in compression). However, the interior of the glass is in tension. As long as the compression layer is intact, the glass is very strong. However, if a small chip, or a deep enough scratch gets through the surface layer into the tension layer, the glass spontaneously breaks into many pieces. I have seen a shattered screen that someone claims resulted from dropping a quarter coin that just hit the corner of the glass. I didn't see it happen, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of that claim. But the screen was shattered and the cracks radiated from the corner as they would if the story were accurate.
This could happen to any smartphone with a tempered glass screen (all of them, as far as I know). The difference is that all the others have their screen edges protected by the cases, and only the iPhone 4 has the edges completely exposed. So, like the antenna issue. It can happen to any phone...it just happens much more easily to the iPhone 4
Like the antenna flaw, this seems to be another case of where form trumped function.
The screen is tempered glass (Gorilla brand, or not). Tempering makes it stronger, but also causes it to shatter when normal glass would only develop a small chip. The problem is that the iPhone 4 design leaves the edges of the glass exposed, and makes it relatively easy for a moderately hard item to "tap" the edge hard enough to create a chip in the glass and destroy the screen.
The reason is that tempering places a thin outer layer of the glass in compression (glass is very strong in compression). However, the interior of the glass is in tension. As long as the compression layer is intact, the glass is very strong. However, if a small chip, or a deep enough scratch gets through the surface layer into the tension layer, the glass spontaneously breaks into many pieces. I have seen a shattered screen that someone claims resulted from dropping a quarter coin that just hit the corner of the glass. I didn't see it happen, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of that claim. But the screen was shattered and the cracks radiated from the corner as they would if the story were accurate.
This could happen to any smartphone with a tempered glass screen (all of them, as far as I know). The difference is that all the others have their screen edges protected by the cases, and only the iPhone 4 has the edges completely exposed. So, like the antenna issue. It can happen to any phone...it just happens much more easily to the iPhone 4
Like the antenna flaw, this seems to be another case of where form trumped function.
Sorry for digging up an old thread, but I notice loads of people saying that iPhone 4 uses Gorilla Glass... Well this really isn't the case at all, I have an iphone 4 and Samsung Galaxy Ace (the latter uses Gorilla Glass) and the iPhone 4 screen is covered in fine scratches both back and front, whereas the Galaxy Ace has zero scratches on it at all, I can even take my keys and scratch them all over the screen on the Galaxy and it remains unscratched, the same can't be said for the iPhone though...
Wrong. Took some keys to my iPhone in front of my friends before and rubbed it repeatedly. No scratches appeared.
If you'd seen any of the YouTube videos demonstrating that Gorilla glass does not shatter, you wouldn't make such a baseless statement.
Even Corning says Gorilla Glass can break. A quick search shows lots of evidence for Gorilla Glass equipped phone screens shattering.
http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/faqs/all
http://re-viewed.org/tech-gadget-reviews/the-real-truth-behind-corning-gorilla-glass/000161/
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-epic-4g/67452-gorilla-glass-epic-fail.html
Apple didn't partner up with Corning for the iPhone, so it is NOT gorilla glass.
