IMPORTANT MOBILE GLOSSARIES

CORNING GORILLLA GLASS

 

Gorilla Glass is the registered trademark for a toughened glass, manufactured by U.S. glassmaker Corning, Inc.

It became highly popular as a cover glass for portable electronic devices such as high-end mobile phones.

The manufacturer claims that Gorilla Glass offers high scratch resistance and incredible hardness, which allows the use of thinner glass panels on devices, without the inherent fragility, which traditionally comes with thinner thickness.

The invention for manufacturing this sort of protective glass had supposedly been gathering dust for quite some years in Corning's warehouse, until Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO back then, commissioned Corning to develop a new scratch proof display cover glass for the first iPhone.

The rise of touchscreen phones popularity since then has turned the manufacturing of Gorilla Glass into a lucrative business niche for Corning.

In 2012, Corning introduced a second generation of the material, called "Gorilla Glass 2" and devices using it started shipping in the first half the same year. According to the manufacturer, the advantages of the second generation include even thinner construction, higher transparency to light and allows for even better touch sensitivity.

Gorilla Glass 3 was announced in 2013 and the popular Samsung Galaxy S4 (released in the first half of the year) is announced as the first phone to feature it.

The new generation is marketed as having Native Damage Resistance™. Marketing talk aside, the new glass reportedly provides enhanced scratch resistance, reduced scratch visibility, and better retained strength once a scratch occurs. According to the manufacturer, the Gorilla Glass 3 is stronger, and is 3x more scratch-resistant than Gorilla Glass 2. Plus some 40% less scratches are visible once they occur.

FaCtS Of AmAzInG InDiA

1. India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
2. India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
3. The decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
4. Sushruta who lived in 600 BC is the father of surgery.
5. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
6. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
7. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana in the 6th century.
9. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
10. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindhu 6000 years ago.
11. India was the richest country on earth until the time of British.
12. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
13. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
14. The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC.
15. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
16. India invented the Number System.
17. Varanasi is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
18. India is the world's largest democracy.
19. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
20. India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.