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Gorilla Glass now 'designed into' Samsung Galaxy S

By | August 24, 2010, 10:41am PDT

Summary: Anyone who owns a Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone and also happens to be clumsy, good news! Corning has announced that its tough Gorilla Glass has been incorporated into the design.

Anyone who owns a Samsung Galaxy S series smartphone and also happens to be clumsy, good news! Corning has announced that its tough Gorilla Glass has been incorporated into the design.

In case you’ve forgotten, the Galaxy S series in the U.S. consists of the Vibrant, Fascinate, Captivate, and Epic 4G.

Gorilla Glass is a very durable, scratch-resistant, and thin sheet of glass. Most recently, it has been seen on the Dell Streak, and it is on track to be a $1 billion business by 2011.

When added to that 4-inch Super AMOLED display seen on the Galaxy S, it can’t prevent the screen from being ruined by absolutely all harm, but it can definitely tumble around without taking on much damage. For a butterfingers like myself, this is quite useful.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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I've seen a good number of shattered iPhone 4s
ShadowT 31st Aug 2010
So, not sure how durable it really is.
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RE: Gorilla Glass now 'designed into' Samsung Galaxy S
thofts 24th Aug 2010
Ohhhh. Let's follow Apple's lead....
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Credit goes to Corning
deepee912 24th Aug 2010
Give credit where credit is due.
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Follow Apple's lead? haha.... It's also used Samsung Wave!
Monarky 28th Aug 2010
@thofts Samsung Wave has Gorilla Glass and was out in March, so who copied who? lol... In fact Samsung's Galaxy S was launched in other countries before iPhone4 and Samsung makes over 50% of the cost of the parts in iPhone4. Even though it's with inferior cheaper parts for the other half of it, than what's in Galaxy Series phones! ...and BTW... Samsung is the largest phone and parts manufacturer on the whole planet!
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I've seen a good number of shattered iPhone 4s
ShadowT 31st Aug 2010
So, not sure how durable it really is.

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