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So, iPhone does use Gorilla Glass...
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Can you cite a reliable source, or are you giving us your best edjikated guess?
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3790430.html
How about in the Steve Jobs Bio just released, he states he had a friend at CORNING who talked about his sweet glass....you can guess where it goes from here, ol' Steve contracts them to make all they can as fast as they can. I guarantee at the top of Gorilla Glass where it states they cannot tell you everyone they work with....they mean APPLE...you freaking nutcases.
Horse ****, read the BIO, he used them for the original iPhone at least, dont know about the subsequent versions, but the 1st generation was absolutely CORNING GORILLA GLASS!!!!
I love the fanboys that know more than the guy who designed and brought the phone to market did.
I love the fanboys that know more than the guy who designed and brought the phone to market did.
Wait 'til the name calling starts. Made it to 25 posts without the f-word so far...
http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/
"Gorilla Glass is an environmentally friendly alkali-aluminosilicate thin-sheet glass"
I'm also curious how you know the manufacturing process of the aluminosilicate glass used by Apple? Do you have any references showing that a similar process is not used? Maybe it isn't, but you put forth this stuff as fact and I'm not sure how you know the truth other than assumption based on a video (leaving out that it was made by a company providing extended warranties/accidental damage protection)
Strictly speaking, on some of the tests the phones go out of shot just before impact. They do bounce around after impact.
In the video though, the phones sure don't look parallel to the ground at 0:55, 1:11, or 1:21 while in the air. In the latter two the phone is clearly tumbling before impact.
Only took 32 posts as quoted below. LOL.
I don't understand why all the comments saying "the iPhone doesn't use Gorilla Glass" are being down ranked. It'd be marketing out the rear by Apple if it had it. There's a dramatic difference in the strength of actual gorilla glass and the glass used in the iPhone. I don't think I'd be able to smack my iPhone 4S with a hammer and have nothing happen to it. Unlike this Droid X.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibs7EKrTZv8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibs7EKrTZv8&feature=related
I'd suggest it's because in the book we're talking about, it categorically states that it does. Which part of this do people fail to understand?
Does it state that it's using Gorilla Glass? It only states that Apple approached Corning. That doesn't mean it uses Gorilla Glass. The original iPhone is easy to scratch. Gorilla Glass isn't easy to scratch.
Tons of different options for protection whatcha talking about?
Otterbox
LifeProof case
Seidio
Ballistic
Trident
Apple used Gorilla Glass in the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4s. Not sure if they used it in the 3G or 3Gs.
Explain why my iPhone 2G's glass absolutely shattered after a small drop? Gorilla glass is meant to be a lot stronger than that..
We know the Samsung Galaxy S2 uses the Gorilla Glass because they have it listed on the website. If you watch the drop test video below it's pretty obvious the glass in the iPhone 4S isn't to the standard of the Galaxy S2. You can try to convince yourself otherwise that's fine.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/10/17/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-trounces-iphone-4s-in-drop-test/
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/10/17/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-trounces-iphone-4s-in-drop-test/
I think that has more to do how the iPhone 4's was engineered. No bezel which exposes the corners. Samsung was at least smart not putting glass on that back which adds even more weight when dropped and another part of the phone that will be prone to shatter. Glass is far more brittle than plastic.
Plastic is such a "dirty word" for some people. I see people praising the design of the Nokia N9/Lumia 800 and that is polycarbonate (plastic). Certain polymers are very, very durable and don't affect reception.
And glass aren't supposed to be scratch-proof, but scratch-resistant. I hear stories of other phones that had Gorilla Glass that did get scratched up.
Corning "Gorilla Glass" is just a brand name with a marketing term like Retina Display. There could be other glass that are just as strong that companies use and are cheaper to implement. Corning and "GG" is just something for them not to sound so generic.
What does it matter? Either they both use Gorilla Glass but the iPhone 4S is more poorly built so the glass breaks easier, or the 4S doesn't use Gorilla glass and it breaks easier.
Either way, the glass on the 4S breaks easily - so what does it matter if it's Gorilla Glass or not?
One thing I've noticed is phones made from like 8 years ago were built much stronger than our phones of today. True, they had far less features but many were built like tanks.
Check out the comments of the best-selling phone of all-time, the Nokia 1100
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1100-reviews-512.php
You can use it as a football, submerge it in water, and throw it at someone. It still works.
Check out the comments of the best-selling phone of all-time, the Nokia 1100
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1100-reviews-512.php
You can use it as a football, submerge it in water, and throw it at someone. It still works.
It specifically states that it's Gorilla Glass.
On iPhone launch day, Apple sent a memo of thanks which Corning still display in their offices, saying "we couldn't have done this without you".
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I apologise for forcing you to read an iPhone speculation forum at a time that you're reading a biography of the guy who invented the iPhone.
Why do we care about the original iPhone. Ok, perhaps it was used in the IP1...so
Its not on the IP4 or IP4S or the 3G or the 3GS.
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Says who....cite a reference to this "fact"
A memo of thanks to Corning does not mean Gorilla Glass. It could simply mean producing a last minute supply of a normal front glass panel:
If we recall, the original iPhone had a plastic front display when first shown. For months before it went on sale, all people talked about was how they'd hate it if got scratched up in their pockets like their iPods.
That must've really grated on Jobs. Here's this wonderful device, yet forums and reporters were complaining about it ahead of time.
Just days before launch, Apple announced that the front had been changed to glass to prevent scratching. The specs said that it was "optical quality" glass, meaning clear and non-wavy.
Even back then, a lot of people mistakenly thought that meant "tempered glass", which it was clearly not from the way that it shattered into dangerous sharp pieces.
So we need more context to see what was really said. What is the full story quote? Thanks!
