Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge corning glass fail?

[Sammuel1973]

It is obvious to me this thread is bogus.

 

[Rukbat]

Corning Gorilla Glass is hard, not tough (the two are a see-saw, the tougher it is, the less hard it is). The glass has a hardness of almost 7 (where carbide is 9 and diamond is 10), so it won't scratch, but that makes it more susceptible to breaking from pressure. (Try "breaking" Jell-O by bending it - but you can "scratch" it with a feather.) Until we have transparent steel, the manufacturers have to choose between hard (scratch-resistant) and tough (bend-resistant).

I go along with DSM - I always keep my phone in an Otterbox Defender. Even the holster is difficult to break. (I've dropped the phone a couple of times, once with a lot of force. After that, I won't buy a phone there's no Defender case for.)

 

[Brian Wai]

umm i bought the device in bangkok, came to burma for some work related trip and went to the burma samsung repair in downtown if i can recall.

 

[jasonwentcrazy]

My kid sister was visiting Georgia over the weekend and her brand new Galaxy S6 Edge shattered. She has never dropped it and nothing ever dropped on it. She's treated it gently and when she left the house in the morning and got in the car she looked down and it was shattered.



If there are such widespread reports of the glass having scratches then it's an easy thing to expect that temperature changes could cause those scratches to turn into cracks.

I'm just relaying what my sister says happened but we're like best friends and she has no reason to make crap up. I've heard suggestion that there has to be more to the story but there isn't. It was fine when she walked to the car with it in her hand. After she got in the car and looked down at the screen it was shattered. The monumentally hot interior of the car combined with an obviously defective glass is the probable cause. [As opposed to, say, a hidden assassin with a BB rifle.]

 

[LOLWOWJason]

We are sorry to hear that...
The force area may be very small at the moment that you climb the car...
My S6 drop down second and there is nothing happened..

 

[LOLWOWJason]

I think you need a screen protect,
it work no just for protect screen to avoid scratch,
It can apportion the force which exerted on the phone screen....

 

[monika foster]

i have to disagree with you...I too put my note 5 in my front right pocket, just the phone, there was nothing else in my pocket but my phone...the back glass cracked, but you can barely see it unless the light reflects on the back, even taking a picture you can't see it but its there..it wasn't dropped or handled roughly...