GORILLA GLASS AND DRAGAONTRAIL GLASS, THE REALITY

A big question that creeps in our minds while using smartphones with Gorilla Glass or Dragontrail Glass protection is that whether we should use a tempered glass (or a thin film protection) or not. Let us find out the truth.

First of all, let me make it clear that no sort of protection, be it the Gorilla or Dragontrail protection, is neither shatter-proof nor scratch-proof. These sorts of protections are scratch and shatter resistant to some extent. The glasses will obvious crack if dropped from a certain height. Let’s find out the myths and reality about the gorilla and the dragontrail protection.

Both these glasses are alkali-aluminosilicate and are very hard and scratch-resistant to a good extent. There are very minor differences between the two. The gorilla Glass is manufactured and branded by a US enterprise, the Corning Glass Company and the Dragontrail glass is manufactured by a Japanese company, Asahi.

Hardness of an object is measured with the scale called the Mohs scale of mineral hardness. In layman terms, anything which has hardness less than the object will not scratch it. The Corning Gorilla glass has a hardness of about 6.7 in the Mohs scale and t5he Dragontrail glass has a hardness of about 6.5 on the Mohs scale which is quite hard for general uses. Normal keys or knife cannot scratch any of these variants of glasses. But still we find scratches on our phones, but we are not aware of the reason. Sand is the biggest enemy of the Gorilla and the Dragontrail Glasses as sand has a hardness of about 8 on the Mohs scale and can easily scratch our protection-based glasses. It’s always advisable to use at least a thin film protector to at least prevent our costly screens from scratches if not cracks. It’s advisable to use a tempered glass protection to prevent our costly screens from easy shatters. That would always prove handful.

SAPPHIRE GLASS

It is a technology which most of us come across in our daily uses unaware of its being. Sapphire glass is widely used in wrist watches and that is the reason why we never find any scratches on our wrist watches. Sapphire glass is a crystalline material. Synthetic Sapphire is generally made by applying high heat and pressure to aluminum oxide powder and getting blocks of Sapphire which are further cut c and polished to get desired results. Sapphire Glass is practically scratch-proof with a hardness of about 9 on the Mohs scale which means it can only be scratched by the substances like natural diamond. Sand has no effect on Sapphire glass as sand has a hardness of about 8 on the Mohs scale. A major drawback of Sapphire Glass is that it is always thicker than Gorilla Glass or Dragontrail Glass. If it is manufactured on a thinner scale, then, even a minute flaw would disrupt the whole arrangement of the crystals of the Sapphire class and it would become extremely brittle. Sapphire glass is more prone to shatters than Gorilla or Dragontrail Glass. Sapphire Glass also transmits 6% less light than the Gorilla or Dragontrail Glasses. As such it is very difficult to use it on smartphones. But the Sapphire Glass can be ionized and treated to produce a more shatter resistant glass than the Gorilla or Dragontrail Glass. Manufacturing that on a thin more is yet to be developed. If this evolution is commanded over the odds, it would surely mean a revolution in the smartphone industry with a stellar protection over scratches on a smartphone screen.

Thus, being your well-wisher, we would always recommend you to use a tempered glass or a thin-film screen-guard protection because on the verge of saving 200-300 bucks you may eventually lose more than thousands repairing your screen later.

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