Gorilla Glass 6: New smartphones to survive 15 drops before breaking – Tech News

If you are one of those people who are constantly releasing their smartphones, the manufacturer of protective glass on your phone has good news.

The American glass manufacturer Corning launches the next generation of hardware designed to help smartphones. Other mobile devices survive falls of greater heights.

The company claims that its new Gorilla Glass 6 is twice as powerful as its predecessor Gorilla Glass 5, used in many current smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S9 and the iPhone X. [19659002] Corning says that the smartphones with new glass could survive 15 drops on rough surfaces of a height of one meter

"Gorilla Glass 6 is a completely new glass composition that can be chemically enhanced to give it levels much more compression than this is possible with Gorilla Glass 5, "said Corning Gorilla Glass vice president, Jaymin Amin." This allows Gorilla Glass 6 to be more resistant to damage "

Since its launch in 2007, Gorilla Glass has been integrated in more than six billion devices.The company has not announced which phones will be equipped with Gorilla Glass 6, but users will see the pr equipment with the new glass in the coming months. – dpa