Foldable phones are slowly making their way, whether you’re ready or not. However, it seems like they're coming whether they're ready or not given how the software remains untested or nonexistent and the prices are on the higher side. But those potential issues can be fixed, but the real thing for which you should hold out for is the glass. The glass is strong and durable and hard to scratch and easy to see through to the bright and shiny OLED pixels below. Glass can fold, but it can’t flex far enough for smartphones that open up like books. John Bayne, who heads up glass giant Corning’s Gorilla Glass business said: “Glass today, the current choices out there, they’re not optimal for folding smartphones. In a glass solution, you’re really challenging the laws of physics, in that to get a very tight bend radius you want to go thinner and thinner, but you also have to be able to survive a drop event and resist damage.” Instead of using glass, folding phone manufacturers are leaning on plastic polymers. Another advantage of this is that it can bend as far as you’d need, and as many times as you want. Samsung claims its Infinity ...
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Corning working on truly foldable Gorilla glass
Foldable phones are slowly making their way, whether you’re ready or not. However, it seems like they're coming whether they're ready or not given how the software remains untested or nonexistent and the prices are on the higher side. But those potential issues can be fixed, but the real thing for which you should hold out for is the glass. The glass is strong and durable and hard to scratch and easy to see through to the bright and shiny OLED pixels below. Glass can fold, but it can’t flex far enough for smartphones that open up like books. John Bayne, who heads up glass giant Corning’s Gorilla Glass business said: “Glass today, the current choices out there, they’re not optimal for folding smartphones. In a glass solution, you’re really challenging the laws of physics, in that to get a very tight bend radius you want to go thinner and thinner, but you also have to be able to survive a drop event and resist damage.” Instead of using glass, folding phone manufacturers are leaning on plastic polymers. Another advantage of this is that it can bend as far as you’d need, and as many times as you want. Samsung claims its Infinity ...
