Corning, the maker of Gorilla Glass, the protective glass that’s used in most phones to protect both the display and back panel nowadays, has unveiled their next-gen Gorilla Glass Victus today. The company claims it to have ‘better drop and scratch resistance’ as compared to its competitors.
Gorilla Glass Victus significantly improves both drop and scratch resistance at the same time. It can survive drops from up to 2 meters on rough surfaces, which is a 0.4-meter (or 25%) improvement over Gorilla Glass 6 (from up to 1.6 meters). Now, that’s around 6.5 feet and quite impressive. Corning further adds that aluminosilicate glasses from competitors only survive up to 0.8-meter drops.
In an official blog post, Corning revealed that “Samsung will be the first customer to adopt Gorilla Glass Victus in the near future.” Will we see Victus being employed in the upcoming Galaxy Note 20 series? We will have to wait a couple of weeks to get an answer to this question. Samsung will unveil its next flagship Note series at a virtual Galaxy Unpacked event on 5th August.
