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Gorilla Glass yes or no

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zim2704

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Does the Thunderbolt have gorilla glass? My work is very physical and alot of moving, bending over and it puts alot of stress on the phone, drops and laying on the phone...yadayada....but gorilla glass on my phones has become a necessity. Anybody that knows please chime in.
 
zim2704 said:
Does the Thunderbolt have gorilla glass? My work is very physical and alot of moving, bending over and it puts alot of stress on the phone, drops and laying on the phone...yadayada....but gorilla glass on my phones has become a necessity. Anybody that knows please chime in.
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To be honest I dont think anyone knows.. It will be a scratch resistant screen though
 
Scratching is the least of my concerns. I need the resilience that gorilla glass has against cracking/shattering.
 
My husband's job is pretty physical. He has the X now, but will be getting the TB. He uses a holster that covers the screen of the phone.
 
I thought that HTC didn't use Gorilla Glass, but basically used the same thing, just not made by Corning (I believe).
 
I think it does use Gorilla Glass. I had the inspire 4g, the glass felt like Gorilla glass, because it was pretty scratch resistant.
 
My mgr has a dinc and when he dropped it on the floor the corner part of the screen cracked.:confused: I thought gorilla glass doesn't crack?
 
Pretty sure the iPhones and iPods have gorilla glass and they have NO PROBLEM cracking. To some extent, glass IS glass ;)
 
all of the newer smartphones use some sort of shatter resistant glass. and in many cases corning doesn't release the name of their clients or their clients don't want to be identified.

gorilla glass is shatter resistant...NOT shatter proof.
 
I cracked a dinc once when it dropped and hit the parking lot just right, I will say it did not ever seem to scratch from keys or what not.
 
heres your answer, all you had to do was email them:

Dear *** ****
I understand that you would like to know if we used Gorilla glass on the Thunderbolt.

***, HTC devices have screens made out of a proprietary formula of glass, not Gorilla Glass.


For further information and a list of devices that utilize Gorilla Glass, refer to the following link:

CORNING
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mischiefse7en said:
heres your answer, all you had to do was email them:
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I've seen that list before, but I don't blame the OP from asking the question because the list is obviously not very thorough. It doesn't even have Motorola listed anywhere and all of their Droids use Gorolla Glass.
 
Someone already shattered there Thunderbolt in a different forum and it didn't even hit something hard like cement my bet is NO Gorilla glass, I know the EVO is very fragile as well.
 
Testing said:
I went to corning's Gorilla Glass site on 3/31/11 and under the listing of "Products With Gorilla" is shows under HTC "Thunder Bolt" [sic]. Perhaps they meant "Thunder Blot" or something??
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Yea that list clearly shows HTC Thunderbolt as using gorilla glass.

HTC: 7 Mozart, 7 Surround T8788, ChaCha, Aria, Desire, Desire HD, Desire S, Desire Z, Dopod A6388, Dopod T8388, Dragon,
Droid ERIS, Droid Incredible, EVO 4G, EVO Shift 4G, G1, G2, HD2, HD7, HD mini, Hero, Incredible S, Inspire 4G, Legend, myTouch 3G,
myTouch 3G Slide, myTouch 4G, T9199, Thunder Bolt, Tianxi T9188, Salsa, Trophy, Wildfire, Wildfire S
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When I tap on the screen of my Thunderbolt, it feels plasticky like the Gorilla glass on the Motorola Atrix. When I do the same on my wife's iPhone, it feels harder and sounds like rapping on regular glass.
 
Was in contact with Lisa Burns of Corning media relations. She stated that the HTC rep posted above (Terri) was misinformed, and in fact the Thunderbolt does use Gorilla Glass.




Now that being said, this will not protect you from sand, and sand like particles. Sand in the pocket or on the cloth you wipe your phone with will rip right through it. Keep that in mind, and take necessary precautions.
 
HolyGrail said:
Was in contact with Lisa Burns of Corning media relations. She stated that the HTC rep posted above (Terri) was misinformed, and in fact the Thunderbolt does use Gorilla Glass.


Now that being said, this will not protect you from sand, and sand like particles. Sand in the pocket or on the cloth you wipe your phone with will rip right through it. Keep that in mind, and take necessary precautions.
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Nice. Thanks for the info.
 
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