Corning is introducing its next generation of damage resistant glass which can be used for smartphone and tablet screens. The company tested Gorilla Glass 4 by dropping it face-down ontro a rough surface from one meter and found that the glass survived the fall “up to 80 percent of the time.”
Don’t tend to drop your phone on concrete all that often? Gorilla Glass 4 also offer scratch resistance.
Not surprisingly, Corning says Gorilla Glass 4 offers better damage resistance than last year’s Gorilla Glass 3 which allows for similar or better protection even on devices that have thinner layers of glass.
Of course, a screen that doesn’t break 80 percent of the time could still break 20 percent of the time — so the best way to protect your phone is still probably to get a good case for it (or leave it at home and never user it… but that sort of defeats the purpose of  having a mobile device).
My wife thanks you.
(Grabs broom and dustpan)
Wouldn’t a flexible screen never break?
Flexible things can still break.
But if flexible displays like Samsung Youm uses graphene as conductor material for the capacitive display tech, the flexible display will be much stronger.According to chemistry professor James Tour at Rice University, in the video on youtube where he speak about research of graphene as conductor material for capacitive displays which they have developed at Rice.
He says that todays ITO as conductor material in capacitive displays can´t fix on plastic substrate.But because of graphene is organic it can fix on other organic based materials as graphene.