Next Year's Smartphones Will Have Tough Screens That Will Survive Deadly Drops

Your smartphone can have the best camera in the market, be as fast as Usain Bolt in a straight line but the bottom line is there’s an almost 100 percent chance that at one time it will suffer a hard drop and 40 percent of the time it will break, making your smartphone close to useless.
Most smartphones in the market, especially those belonging to Samsung, HTC, LG, Microsoft and Motorola come baring Gorilla Glass from Corning. Which will easily survive scratches but still have a weakness for those deadly drops.

And every year Corning keep making improvements to their glass in pursuit of that unbreakable glass. This year they’ve made Gorilla Glass 4 with which they targeted making their glass impact proof so that your next smartphone will be able to survive that deadly drop at least from a one meter height.
Corning scientists discovered that most of the time rough surfaces are responsible for your screen breaking. Using this information, they created a drop test simulation creating a rough surface from sandpaper and eventually made Gorilla Glass 4 two times tougher that the current screens meaning it would survive drops 80 percent of the time.

But still the question begs, is Gorilla Glass better than Sapphire. I mean we saw sapphire stand up against a dagger and bending at impossible angles.

Cliff Hund, president of Corning East Asia, had this to say about the sapphire glass, “When it comes to visible scratch resistance, sapphire is top of the line,” he said. But introduce even slight damage or stress, and sapphire “trails Gorilla by quite a bit” in durability from that point on. (Yahoo Tech)
He was also quick to mention how hard it is to produce sapphire in bulk and the main point of reference was Apple failing to put it on their latest iPhones.
All in all, the good news is our next generation of smartphones will not break when kissing the floor, at least 80 percent of the time but that’s still better that 50 percent.