Corning Gorilla Glass 5 could help your phone survive a five-foot fall

Smartphone displays are incredibly fragile. Some of us (or maybe a lot of us) have learned this the hard way. Corning is hoping to ease a bit the paranoia you feel when you drop your phone with the latest version of Gorilla Glass that’s heading to the market.

Previously, Gorilla Glass 4 promised an 80 percent survival rate for devices dropped from a height of one meter, which meant having the phone fall from around your waist. Now, Gorilla Glass 5 promises that 80 percent survival rate from a height of 1.6 meters, which is like having the phone in front of your face. Corning said the Gorilla Glass 5 is already in production and shipping to device makers. We should expect (or hope) upcoming devices are adopting this new tech.

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'Project Phire' is Corning's answer to sapphire crystal for smartphones and tablets

Corning has made four generations of Gorilla Glass which serve to protect multi-touch displays on smartphones and tablets. Since these devices are mostly glass, they need to have some durability and drop resistance and Gorilla Glass has succeeded in making this possible while continously making glass thinner and even more curved.

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Corning to launch new germ-killing Gorilla Glass

Your next Corning Gorilla Glass-equipped device won’t just help protect you from scratches, it would keep germs at bay, too. The next-generation Gorilla Glass will be built with an antimicrobial coat to prevent the growth of bacteria, mildew, mold, fungi, and the like on your touchscreen device. The glass will have an ionic silver coating found on other germ-killing surfaces.

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Gorilla Glass 3 to debut at CES 2013

Gorilla Glass 3 will be stronger, more scratch resistant and more versatile and it will be coming to CES 2013. Gorilla Glass debuted on the original iPhone and has since been used on thousands of smartphones, tablets and even notebooks (remember the HP Spectre?) and HDTV's. The newest version is said to be three times more scratch resistant and features a proprietary "Native Damage Resistance" technology. Corning says that the few scratches that do occur will be invisible to the naked eye.