Galaxy Note 7 display with Gorilla Glass 5 just one step above plastic on hardness scale, test shows

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

My first phone was the Motorola Dyna-Tac "the brick". Out of all of the phones I've owned, from the analog & digital Star-Tac, several motoroals, a couple Sony-Erikson's, HTC pda phones, to the smartphones, the only phone I've dropped was a Motorola flip phone that went down 4 floors plus the sub floor of an elevator shaft. After their engineering department found the back case & battery, I put it all back together and it WORKED! Little scratched up, but worked. Called at&t, made up a story about the audio cutting in/out since I KNEW 2-3 days after the warranty expired, it would probably start acting up

Mine was the Star-Tac. I dropped it on it's aerial with the heavy, extended battery. The ariel was always bent after that, and it no longer stayed attached to the phone when I extended it fully but the phone still worked fine. It was annoying while driving because I always pulled the aerial up with my teeth then spat it out after it came out in my mouth then had to scratch around in footwell of the car for it afterwards.

 

[lipe123]

Damn. I guess you can't have it all. I'll wait for another year before I buy another phone. Nothing innovative is out yet. No must have devices. Only overpriced status symbols.

Clearly never heard of the oneplus 3. I'm quite happy with mine

 

[wiyosaya]

Where the heck is transparent aluminum (star trek tech) which is hard as steel and as transparent as glass?
I guess the imaginations of science fiction writers are still out of this world...

wouldnt it be an aluminum alloy then? aluminum's properties does not make it hard as steel, by itself. Also, aluminum is not very scratch resistant either... maybe this alloy is something fabulous, but it must be expensive, because it have not seen it in any consumer products yet... are there?

Edit: It doesnt sound optically preferable. Sited from Wiki: AlON is optically transparent (≥80%) in the near-ultraviolet, visible and midwave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum

80% is actually pretty high as far as transparent materials go. That is in part because when light moves from one medium to the other, if there is a change in the refractive index from one medium to the next, the light is partially reflected at the boundary.

However, anti-reflection coatings can cut this down and, effectively, increase the transmission of light through the material. There is, however, no such thing as a perfectly transmitting material as far as current science knows.

Where the heck is transparent aluminum (star trek tech) which is hard as steel and as transparent as glass?
I guess the imaginations of science fiction writers are still out of this world...

It is because it is not unalloyed aluminum. It is partly aluminum oxide. Aluminum oxide is also known in crystalline form as sapphire and sapphire has a hardness which is nearly that of diamond. Pure aluminum oxide is also clear despite being called "sapphire". Blue sapphire has a bit of titanium in it that gives it the blue color. One other form of sapphire is ruby which is aluminum oxide with a bit of chromium mixed in.

 

[p51d007]

Mine was the Star-Tac. I dropped it on it's aerial with the heavy, extended battery. The ariel was always bent after that, and it no longer stayed attached to the phone when I extended it fully but the phone still worked fine. It was annoying while driving because I always pulled the aerial up with my teeth then spat it out after it came out in my mouth then had to scratch around in footwell of the car for it afterwards.

I wish I had a buck for each one of those star tac antennas I broke. Had a buddy that worked for Altel...he use to just give me about 5-6 at a time. Then someone made a clip on case that had and extension on the back that would pretty much protect the antenna coil from snapping off. I need to dig it out one of these days and charge it to see if it still comes on.

 

[9Nails]

I haven't found a good glass protector for my Galaxy S7. I was looking for a tempered glass protector, but due to the curved glass it seems that the only way 3rd parties are able to manufacture a glass protector is to offer ones which adhere to the edge of the phones. This leaves a small gap between the glass protector and the phone's glass screen. (Which eventually traps dust, hair, or pocket lint.) Film screen protectors have an inferior feel in my opinion. So it's a shame that this new Note 7 is a scratch magnet having experienced that nobody can make a glass screen protector which has no side effects.