As a tech media editor, I have access to almost all new products in the tech world. And when I was doing the annual horizontal review, I found an interesting point, these products released recently, although in the price positioning, design language, target population is different, but their choice in the body glass material is the same, the choice of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus glass. So why is it that in the mobile phone circle at present, mobile phone manufacturers are only willing to favor the Corning family?
01 The pursuit of tough glass is unchanged
According to Corning's survey of 1,000 Chinese smartphone users, about 40 percent of the people surveyed believe that scratches on their phones will affect their normal use of the device; 68 percent of users prefer to choose phones that will not crack after falling on the screen; and 75 percent of users are worried that scratches will affect the display performance of their devices.
Survey data of 1,000 Chinese smartphone users
Therefore, sturdiness and durability have always been the glass properties that people pursue, but no matter how hard manufacturers try to design the structure of mobile phones, the fragile properties of glass are always difficult to avoid. Once broken, replacing a glass cover, especially the screen part, will cost hundreds of thousands, which is also a big expense for ordinary users.
Let's take the latest iPhone as an example, according to the quotation of Apple's official website, the cost of screen maintenance of the iPhone 13 series is about 2,000 yuan, and this price can basically buy a good Android phone.
Apple official website offer
Therefore, both users and manufacturers want the glass cover of mobile phones to be tougher. Not only can it be more comfortable in daily use, but it can also protect your wallet. Because of this, Gorilla Glass Victus has entered everyone's field of vision more.
02 The product is "hard" enough is the last word
Taking several models released before as an example, the Xiaomi Mi 12 series, OPPO Find N, realme GT2 Pro, and OnePlus 10 Pro without exception all use Gorilla Glass Victus as the glass cover for the front screen of the mobile phone, and as a more important selling point.
Realme GT2 Pro promotional poster
Gorilla Glass Victus may not be familiar to some ordinary consumers, but when it comes to Corning Gorilla Glass, friends who know a little bit about technology must have heard it to a greater or lesser extent. And when buying a mobile phone, you will definitely check whether the phone uses Corning's glass. In fact, on the original iPhone, Corning Gorilla Glass was already used as the glass cover of the mobile phone.
Jobs, who was Apple's CEO at the time, met Corning CEO Wendell Weeks at the recommendation of a friend, and Jobs hoped that Corning could provide screen glass materials for the first generation of iPhones, but Corning's production line at that time was difficult to meet Apple's needs, and it was only half a year before the release of the first generation of iPhones. So even though Jobs wanted to use high-hard Gorilla Glass, it seemed like a difficult challenge. However, thanks to the efforts of Corning engineers, a glass that can meet Apple's needs and is only 1.3mm thick was completed before the release of the first iPhone. Later, with the success of the iPhone, Corning's Gorilla Glass has become the standard for "high-end" mobile phones, and almost all manufacturers and users have recognized the quality of Corning's Gorilla Glass cover.
Gorilla Glass became an important selling point
Manufacturers choose to cooperate with Corning, in addition to obtaining excellent performance glass covers to create durable products, but also can get Corning's rich experience and technical support, so that at the beginning of the design of the product can be planned to be relatively more robust products. After all, the product is "hard" enough is the last word.
03 This is the toughest piece of Gorilla Glass to date
So where is this Gorilla Glass Victus, which is sought after by countless manufacturers? Let's start with a short video.
It can be seen that in Corning laboratory tests, the mobile phone using Gorilla Glass Victus can still remain intact after falling to a hard and rough surface at a height of 2 meters. In this drop test, the average height of the ordinary mobile phone is damaged at a height of 0.8 meters.
It is worth noting that according to the official data given by Corning, Gorilla Glass Victus has improved its drop performance by about 25% compared to Corning's sixth-generation Gorilla Glass, and is twice as high as Corning's sixth-generation Gorilla Glass in terms of scratch resistance, and is four times higher than that of competing aluminum-silicon glass. Thanks to the improvement of scratch resistance, the yield rate of Gorilla Glass Victus in production has also made great progress, but the cost has not increased.
A few final words
At the end of the survey of 1,000 Chinese smartphone users, users unanimously said that they would like to spend money to strengthen the toughness of mobile phones compared to the camera configuration, battery life and body thickness of smartphones. In the eyes of users, "anti-fall" and "anti-scratch" are actually equivalent to "tough".
Therefore, Gorilla Glass Victus is not only sought after by manufacturers, but also unanimously recognized by users. Not only because the tough Gorilla Glass Victus can bring users a full sense of security, but also to a certain extent, it can avoid the damage caused by accidents to bring a sense of security to the user's wallet. So it makes sense that mobile phone manufacturers favor Corning's Gorilla Glass Victus.