Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus 2 can better survive drops on sidewalks and roads

Corning’s Gorilla Glass is utilized in a variety of high-end smartphones, and now the corporate is promising even harder shows with its newest model, Victus 2. The brand new glass composition affords improved drop efficiency on tough surfaces like concrete, the corporate says, whereas providing the identical scratch resistance as the unique Victus.

The primary Victus glass launched two years in the past promised that your display screen might survive drops of two meters (6.5 toes), however the brand new model ups the ante. Corning stated it aimed to create glass that was sturdy sufficient to “higher survive drops from waist peak onto rougher surfaces,” to start out with. It additionally famous that smartphones are 15 % heavier and 10 % bigger than they had been 4 years in the past, which will increase the stress on the show.

“In lab testing, Gorilla Glass Victus 2 survived drops of as much as one meter on a floor replicating concrete,” the corporate stated, noting that competing options might fail at half a meter or much less. On the similar time, “Victus 2 continued to outlive drops as much as two meters on a floor replicating asphalt and maintained scratch resistance as much as 4 occasions higher than aggressive aluminosilicate,” in response to Corning.

There is no phrase on which units will get Victus 2 shows first, however I would not go dropping one on the street to check the claims — they’re primarily based on lab checks, not like typical random cellphone drop accidents. There is no doubt the screens are extensively used although. Corning stated that its product is “designed into greater than 8 billion units by greater than 45 main manufacturers.” Apple is a significant investor within the firm, having poured in $250 million in investments a number of years in the past.