Regardless, I feel much better when there is a screen protector on there
SGP Crystal Clear on my current phone and I'm a happy camper!![]()
I prefer the Ultra Crystal myself. Had one on my X since the 2nd month.
Yeah thats the one I have too, amazing clarity, scratch protection and easy to apply/take off.
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Gorilla Glass is basically the best glass that can be put onto a phone's screen. It's very highly scratch RESISTANT (not PROOF) and has a fantastic track record with being quality glass. Motorola has been using it for their past devices (especially big name devices like Droid X and Atrix). I can vouch in saying that it's much better than what Apple uses for the iPhone 4 as both of my iPhone 4s gathered scratches in the matter of only a few months while I had my Droid X for much longer and gathered 0 scratches even though I treated it worse.
I have had my OG Droid for 2 years, dropped it on cement and gravel and not a single scratch on the screen.
the hardness of rocks is higher than the screen and it absolutely will scratch, my og droid screen has a big scratch in it from dropping it on rocks...
The hardness of rocks is higher than the screen and it absolutely will scratch, My OG Droid screen has a big scratch in it from dropping it on rocks...
The hardness of rocks is higher than the screen and it absolutely will scratch, My OG Droid screen has a big scratch in it from dropping it on rocks...
The items in red, of course, are things that will easily scratch Gorilla Glass. Everything in black won't.Bottom line is anything harder than Gorilla glass which has a hardness between 6+7 will scratch the surface.
Iron, steel, nickel, lead, gold, silver or any medal are softer (1-5) than gorilla glass, so they should not scratch the glass.
On the other hand, sand contains quartz and it could scratch gorilla glass, for example when sand is in your pockets (after a walk on the beach).
One more thing:
a common misconception is: 'make something sharp and it will scratch'. it's wrong. you can make your fingernail or your key as sharp as possible, it is still softer than the glass and it will not scratch.
So, no, keys wont scratch it (steel), but anything harder than 7 on the scale will with no problem. So anybody that has no scratches obviously hasnt made contact to the screen with anything harder than a 7 on this scale.
Hardness Substance or mineral
0.2–0.3 caesium, rubidium
0.5–0.6 lithium, sodium, potassium
1 talc
1.5 gallium, strontium, indium, tin, barium, thallium, lead, graphite
2 hexagonal boron nitride,[10] calcium, selenium, cadmium, sulfur, tellurium, bismuth
2.5 to 3 magnesium, gold, silver, aluminium, zinc, lanthanum, cerium, Jet_(lignite) (lignite)
3 calcite, copper, arsenic, antimony, thorium, dentin
4 fluorite, iron, nickel
4 to 4.5 platinum, steel
5 apatite, cobalt, zirconium, palladium, tooth enamel, obsidian (volcanic glass)
5.5 beryllium, molybdenum, hafnium
6 orthoclase, titanium, manganese, germanium, niobium, rhodium, uranium
6 to 7 glass, fused quartz, iron pyrite, silicon, ruthenium, iridium, tantalum, opal
7 quartz, vanadium, osmium, rhenium
7.5 to 8 hardened steel, tungsten, emerald, spinel
8 topaz, cubic zirconia
8.5 chrysoberyl, chromium, silicon nitride
9-9.5 corundum, silicon carbide (carborundum), tungsten carbide, titanium carbide, stishovite
9.5–10 rhenium diboride, tantalum carbide, titanium diboride, boron nitride, boron [11][12][13]
10 diamond
>10 nanocrystalline diamond (hyperdiamond, ultrahard fullerite)
And if memory serves (too lazy to research), one of the only substances tougher than glass is a diamond.
CHARACTERISTICS
Corning
Mine doesn't.
And if memory serves (too lazy to research), one of the only substances tougher than glass is a diamond.
Also, 'rocks' is not a class of material, there is granite, sandstone, limestone (and much more) each with their own hardness.
You said you dropped it on "cement and gravel".. what type of gravel? since we're getting so specific now. wanna post a video of you throwing your phone across a street paved with sandstone vs. granite? jeeze getting my head bit off here
Mine doesn't.
And if memory serves (too lazy to research), one of the only substances tougher than glass is a diamond.
Also, 'rocks' is not a class of material, there is granite, sandstone, limestone (and much more) each with their own hardness.