Corning has introduced Gorilla Glass Ceramic, expanding its legacy with Apple’s Ceramic Shield, to the Android phone market. The material's debut suggests a trend toward premium devices, improving both durability and functionality. The article explains the prevalent use of glass in smartphones, emphasizing its benefits over plastic, such as better scratch resistance, enhanced wireless charging, and superior signal strength. The glass sandwich design is noted for preventing bending in high-end phones. Motorola is expected to be the first to implement Gorilla Glass Ceramic with its upcoming Razr foldable device.
It may seem odd that the industry spends so much time developing stronger glass instead of moving to other, less fragile materials in phones, but there are reasons to use it.
Using glass for the back of a phone enables wireless charging and magnetic attachment, which people have come to expect in premium phones.
We expect this to be a material for more expensive devices, which suggests that not all phones will adopt Gorilla Glass Ceramic immediately.
Corning announces new versions of Gorilla Glass regularly, but you won't always see its latest materials across the board.
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