According to Corning, 84% of consumers across China, India, and the US name durability as the primary consideration when buying a smartphone. “Smartphones are the center of our digital lives, and the requirement for exceptional scratch and drop resistance has only increased with our growing reliance on clear, damage-free displays,” noted David Velasquez, vice president and general manager for Gorilla Glass. Also: How to find and remove spyware from your phone The company’s testing of its new Victus 2 glass showed that it could survive drops of up to 1 meter on a “surface replicating concrete.” Corning claims that “competitive aluminosilicate glasses from other manufacturers typically failed when dropped from half a meter or less.” Further testing showed that Gorilla Glass Victus 2 could also survive drops of 2 meters (or a little over selfie-taking height) on an asphalt-analogue surface. It can also resist scratching “up to four times better” than competitors. Also: How to record a phone call on an iPhone Velasquez noted that Victus 2 was designed with today’s larger, heavier smartphones in mind, saying, “With more sophisticated and varied designs, today’s smartphones are nearly 15% heavier, and screen sizes are up to 10% larger, than they were four years ago – increasing both the stress on the cover glass and the probability of damage.” Corning said Gorilla Glass Victus 2 is currently “being evaluated by multiple customers and is expected to reach the market within the next few months.” Previous versions of Gorilla Glass have shipped in more than 8 billion devices to date, with the first-generation Victus glass having been included in devices like Google’s Pixel 7 Pro, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, and many others.
