Corning is introducing a new type of Gorilla Glass designed specifically for smartwatches, fitness trackers, and other wearables. The new glass is called Gorilla Glass SR+, and it’s designed with a focus on scratch resistance, since it’s pretty easy to scrape up something that’s worn on your wrist all day.
The goal here is to let Gorilla Glass become the go-to covering for wearables the same way it’s become ubiquitous on smartphones and tablets. To do that, Corning is clearly going after a direct competitor here — sapphire crystal — and trying to prove that it has the better option.
Apple uses sapphire crystal to cover the higher-end Apple Watch models, since it’s much harder to scratch than glass. For Corning, there’s a risk that it...
New Gorilla Glass will make smartwatches harder to scratch
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