From Corning... "The water-resistant Samsung GALAXY S7 edge has a dual-edge design and Quad HD Super AMOLED 5.5-inch display featuring damage-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass 4 on both sides of the device." And my phone takes an otherwise innocuous fall in a case yet suffers a broken screen, I'd say trash is a good word to use.
The key phrase there is "damage
resistant." Not damage proof. It's still glass, and very thin glass at that (because we all demand the thinnest phones possible, then complain about the compromises that entails). Glass always has, and probably always will, break when impacted, and the thinner the glass, and the less protective material around the bezel, the more likely it is to break on impact. Anyone with half a brain can see the edge design leaves no bezel, and permits no case with raised edges, to protect the screen. Said person should be able to figure out that means more chances for the surface of the screen to impact a hard surface and be damaged.
My first smartphone was twice the thickness of the Edge, had a 1/4 inch (or maybe thicker) plastic bezel on all sides of the screen, and the screen was recessed close to 1/4 inch below the frame surround the glass. I suspect the glass was thicker, too. That phone bounced down the road after flying loose during a motorcycle accident. The plastic was scraped to hell, but the screen survived. No one wants to buy a phone like that any more, though. It's not slim and stylish so you can show all your friends how cool your phone is. Instead we buy phones that look cool, but are about as fragile as a crystal wine glass, then complain about them.
A very thin phone with a glass back, an almost non-existent frame around the edge, an exposed curved glass screen, and no side bezels, and we're surprised it's more fragile than a phone with a metal back, a full metal frame around the edge, and larger bezels? Really?