From CNET: You'll soon be able to drop your phone from selfie level worry-free with a little help from Corning. The glass company presented the fifth iteration of its super-resistant Gorilla Glass at an event at its offices in Palo Alto, California.
Corning has been making a more resistant version of Gorilla Glass nearly every two years since its inception in 2007, and this year's version is taking the glass to new heights -- literally.
"We wanted to go higher than the meter drop," said John Bayne, Vice President and General Manager at Corning.
The previous version of the glass could survive a drop at about pocket level or below on a rough surface, but with 63 percent of drops occurring between waist and shoulder height, according to Corning, the goal was to increase the total fall distance that a Gorilla Glass-topped phone could withstand.
Gorilla Glass 5 promises to brush off drops of up to 1.6 meters (5 feet, 2 inches) based on Corning's tests, making it almost four times more resistant than regular, unstrengthened glass, the company says.
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