Samsung Claims Its New Galaxy S25 Ultra Glass Can Survive Head-high Drops On Concrete

Will cracked screens really spell a constituent of nan past this decade? We’re decidedly connected an awesome trajectory! Just 2 years aft Samsung’s Galaxy S23 adopted a caller Corning Gorilla Glass that tin past waist-high drops of 1 metre consecutive onto concrete, nan caller Samsung S25 Ultra has a ceramic type that tin apparently past head-high drops of 2.2 meters (7.2 feet).

It’s called Corning Gorilla Armor 2, and you should cognize that neither Samsung nor Corning is promising that your existent telephone will past specified a driblet — if it’s point for illustration nan 2023 claim, nan 2.2-meter driblet is simply what a phone-sized, weighted “puck” was tin to past erstwhile dropped look down successful nan lab. All Samsung said onstage coming is that nan worldly is amended tin to defy damage.

But that’s still complete doubly nan tallness Corning and Samsung touted 2 generations ago, and nan institution impressively claims it was tin to execute that without compromising nan scratch guidance of nan coagulated — point that Corning has occasionally had to talk successful nan past, arsenic processing caller forms of coagulated tin recreation pinch tradeoffs betwixt different kinds of protection. The caller Armor 2 apparently has nan aforesaid scratch protection arsenic before, pinch “over 4 times overmuch scratch guidance than competitory lithium-aluminosilicate surface glasses pinch an anti-reflective coating,” according to nan companies.

And Corning and Samsung opportunity nan coagulated will still “dramatically” trim down connected reflections for illustration past year’s Gorilla Armor, a state we recovered held up successful our Samsung telephone testing.

But, for illustration past year, Samsung’s only promising to relationship nan champion coagulated connected its high-end Ultra model, which starts astatine $1,299, and it’s important to retrieve that immoderate number of factors tin root a coagulated aboveground to ace sooner than you mightiness like. If it lands connected a somewhat pointier protrusion than tested successful nan lab, aliases if nan coagulated has already been somewhat scratched, it could break erstwhile dropped from a small height.