After years of overinflated smartphone show claims crammed with fancy phrases like oleophobic, ceramic nanocrystals, and antimicrobial, we’ve turn out to be numb to the entire thing. So when Samsung boasted that the Galaxy S24 Extremely delivered a brand new commonplace of visible readability, we didn’t pay a lot consideration.
However Corning’s new Gorilla Armor has a trick that’s truly fairly wonderful—and one you’ll recognize while not having to drop it first. Together with “distinctive scratch resistance,” Samsung claims that Corning’s new cowl materials reduces reflection by as much as 75 p.c. And based mostly on the primary pictures which have emerged of the brand new cellphone, it’s the most effective show characteristic because the iPhone 4’s retina show.
As you possibly can see within the picture above from Ice Universe on X (previously Twitter), the show on the Galaxy S24 Extremely is way darker, crisper, and clearer in vivid mild, eliminating the necessity to crank up the brightness and twist the cellphone into unnatural angles to learn what’s on the display. It’s a exceptional improve over each different cellphone and the form of characteristic Apple would identify and dedicate a whole part of the iPhone website to.
Apple additionally makes use of Corning glass for the iPhone, however has settled on the corporate’s Ceramic Protect tech, which it has used because the iPhone 12. Nevertheless, with the scratch-resistance and glare-resistance of the brand new Gorilla Armor, we’d like to see Apple make the swap with the iPhone 16 Professional.
