Gorilla glass (what is it good for?) - OnePlus 6T Accessories

What is the point of a smartphone maker touting its phones screen as having "gorilla glass" if you still need to apply $10-20 USD worth of tempered glass to actually protect that screen from routine daily use?
Edit: Not bashing the OP6t, best phone I've had yet. Just disappointed at how quickly the gorilla glass has failed it's basic reason for existing.
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Why wear a seat belt when the car already has airbags?

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audioman42 said:
Why wear a seat belt when the car already has airbags?
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In the case of cars, the carmaker provides both items and says they are mandatory for the safe use of the car. They *do not* call their airbags "gorilla-bags" and make seat belts an optional accessory.

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You don't need to put on a tempered glass.

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You know, I've been asking the same question.
The difference between gorilla glass and seat belts is that SEAT BELTS WORK. I'm not even sure how you can compare these two. Air bags are flavor added. Without your seat belt you will be ejected from the car long before your airbags go off.
I think it's pretty damn crystal clear. Seat belts have saved millions of lives. Gorilla glass does not appear to have saved any phones. Phones have become lighter and have better frames, that take impact better.
Gorilla glass MAY keep you from scratching the screen on anything except for stone. Unfortunately basically all phone scratches come from stone (pebbles, stone dust, etc, etc).
If you think anything that I am saying is suspect, why don't you go watch drop/scratch tests for phones across all of the gorilla glass iterations, each one is supposed to be like 1000000x stronger then the previous.

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To me "gorilla glass" is just a sales pitch and that's it. I've never found it to be any more durable than regular glass on any phone. They say gorilla glass 1,2,3,4,5,6 stronger each generation...BS. 6 cracks, breaks and scratches just as easy as 1 ever did, and just as easy as plain ole glass.

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It's glass, stop expecting it to be transparent tungsten.

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formicae said:
It's glass, stop expecting it to be transparent tungsten.
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Ha! Transparent carbon fiber would be even better.

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Answer to the thread title:
Absolutely nothing

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You tell me, say it..
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How did you get it scratched this way? Hardness is pretty good on GG so you need a very hard item to get such a scratch
(I use mine without any screenprotection and I have absolutely no scratch since day one)

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Truth is, until screens will be made of glass, they WILL scratch sooner or later. Your screen will come in contact with some sort of material that will scratch sooner or later and gorilla glass won't save you. So you'll always need a screen protector if you want your screen to be perfect over time and as others said, you can't expect glass, as good as it could be, not to scratch.
Gorilla glass sure helps when it comes to dropping phones but even so the fact that your screen will break or not depends on how your phone falls so if you're unlucky it will break even on gorilla glass 9999 because that'll be glass too.
The best way to keep your phone perfect is to take care of it!

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WhiteWashed said:
Truth is, until screens will be made of glass, they WILL scratch sooner or later.
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I think you meant "as long as screens will be made of glass" and you are right.
To the OP my impression is that Gorilla Glass helps more against falls than against scratches. I think it's more elastic than tempered glass, while tempered glass is harder.
For me the point of tempered glass screen protector is to have scratches being easily correctable by replacing the protector. For obvious reasons, companies cannot sell phones with easily replaceable screens. I understand what you are saying, I've simply learnt to live with it.

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gorman42 said:
I think you meant "as long as screens will be made of glass" and you are right.
To the OP my impression is that Gorilla Glass helps more against falls than against scratches. I think it's more elastic than tempered glass, while tempered glass is harder.
For me the point of tempered glass screen protector is to have scratches being easily correctable by replacing the protector. For obvious reasons, companies cannot sell phones with easily replaceable screens. I understand what you are saying, I've simply learnt to live with it.
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Yup that's what I meant, sorry for my bad english :silly: I know people who don't care if their screen gets scratched and they don't use any screen protector but for me it's very important to have a scratch-free screen, I take good care of my phones, especially expensive ones

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Jeffro64 said:
To me "gorilla glass" is just a sales pitch and that's it. I've never found it to be any more durable than regular glass on any phone. They say gorilla glass 1,2,3,4,5,6 stronger each generation...BS. 6 cracks, breaks and scratches just as easy as 1 ever did, and just as easy as plain ole glass.
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Not true at all. Each glass is stronger and it shows. You forget as Gorilla glass becomes more resilient, the manufacturers make it thinner. If the 6T used Gorilla glass at the same thickness as Gorilla glass 1 was, it would likely never crack from being dropped. But companies like OnePlus also make the edges curved, adding more weakness wasn't designed for. If you consider that, it is impressive. This is glass not only supposed to be scratch resistant, but fall resistant, and be used in thin devices.
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EmperorX said:
Answer to the thread title:
Absolutely nothing
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Oh really? You really think Gorilla glass is no better than any other glass? You really think you could use any glass as thin as G6 and it would be as scratch resistant, fall resistant? Its just a global marketing conspiracy that all high end phones use this glass rather than some other glass? It is just marketing?
I know for sure, 6T uses thinner glass that is more durable than previous phones I used in the past. That is impressive to me.
Did not use screen protector with G4 and I won't with G6

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zymphad said:
Not true at all. Each glass is stronger and it shows. You forget as Gorilla glass becomes more resilient, the manufacturers make it thinner. If the 6T used Gorilla glass at the same thickness as Gorilla glass 1 was, it would likely never crack from being dropped. But companies like OnePlus also make the edges curved, adding more weakness wasn't designed for. If you consider that, it is impressive. This is glass not only supposed to be scratch resistant, but fall resistant, and be used in thin devices.
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Oh really? You really think Gorilla glass is no better than any other glass? You really think you could use any glass as thin as G6 and it would be as scratch resistant, fall resistant? Its just a global marketing conspiracy that all high end phones use this glass rather than some other glass? It is just marketing?
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Nah dude. It's a song.

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Think maybe some think Corning is trying to make the hardest glass.
Far from it. Not even close. They are trying to make glass that can be thinner and be more flexible, used in curved devices while resisting reasonable every day use damages. Glass that can maintain strength from flexion damage our thinner devices suffer as well.
I know plenty of people who have never used screen protector and haven't damaged G4 and above.

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My Galaxy S2 with gorilla glass was like a tank. When it died I whipped it across the room and not a scratch. Eventually I removed the battery and sat a chair leg on it and sat on the chair. It finally went crunch but it was the inside screen. The glass itself was still unbroken.

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The new Gorilla Glass is known to be more shatter resistant than previous version, BUT that is at the expense of being LESS scratch resistant. It's a glass screen that we carry with us all day every day, we shove it in pockets, bags, cup holders etc. It's going to scratch, that's not going to change anytime soon.

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shinji257 said:
My Galaxy S2 with gorilla glass was like a tank. When it died I whipped it across the room and not a scratch. Eventually I removed the battery and sat a chair leg on it and sat on the chair. It finally went crunch but it was the inside screen. The glass itself was still unbroken.
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Okay.....................