Corning has just announced its new “Gorilla Glass Ceramic,” a stronger form of glass for smartphones, but seemingly not the company’s strongest.
Announced this week, Gorilla Glass Ceramic is just what the name implies, a new glass ceramic material designed to be more resistant to impact damage than existing aluminosilicate glass materials. Corning says that Ceramic “significantly improves drop performance on rough surfaces.”
The company also claims that Gorilla Glass Ceramic can handle “10 repeated drops” onto a asphalt-like surface where aluminosilicate broke after just one drop.
In Corning lab tests, Gorilla Glass Ceramic survived 10 repeated drops from one meter on surfaces replicating asphalt. An alternative aluminosilicate glass typically failed on the first drop.
This quote is rather telling when it comes to where Ceramic stacks up to Corning’s Gorilla Armor 2, which launched on Galaxy S25 Ultra earlier this year. Armor stood up to drops onto a concrete-like surface from 2.2 meters, Corning said, implying that Ceramic isn’t quite as strong as Armor, as concrete is generally considered to absorb less of an impact than asphalt.
Still, it’s an upgrade over existing options, and we’ll be curious to see how it performs in the real world. Corning says a Motorola device will serve as the launch bed for this new material “in the coming months.” Last year, Motorola had announced that it would start using Gorilla Glass in all of its smartphones.
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