Why no Gorilla Glass 5 on the Pixel phones?

[anon(5630457)]

GG5 does in fact scratch easily.

I work outside on sometimes really filthy vehicles. I've dropped my Note 7 out of vehicles a few times, which has resulted in a few small nicks in the screen, something that NEVER happened with my Note 4.

I also have quite a few hair scratches from something as insignificant as dirt on my hands from those dirty vehicles. Again, something that has never happened on my other Samsung devices.

Someone making a video showing a consistent increase in scratches in relation to increasing hardness of picks, then correcting it with some bs excuse does not necessarily debunk the GG5 softness. Why would someone make a follow-up correction video for a test he has done consistently on many different devices?

I trust my personal experience over internet videos.

GG5 glass does scratch easily.

Uh, no. It doesn't. That JerryRig video was debunked by several geologists who know a thing or two about the Mohs Scale of Hardness.

 

[Wiley_11]

Uh, no. It doesn't. That JerryRig video was debunked by several geologists who know a thing or two about the Mohs Scale of Hardness.

He even debunked it in "Note 7 Round 2" He had grit from a sharpening stone on the picks in the first video.

 

[bvarner6]

If the grit from the sharpening stone was the same hardness on all picks, given the same sharpening stone was used on each, why did the picks produce more definitive scratching consistent with an increase in pick hardness?
If the same stone was used to sharpen each pick, one would expect the same amount of scratching from embedded particles, especially from the picks where scratching is typically not visible (3-5 ish). However, the scratches were consistently more visible as hardness increased, which contradicts the sharpening stone theory.

If you watch to the end of the video, you'll see he shows his personal Note 7 with a ridiculous amount of scratches. This phone hasn't been out long enough to justify that much scratching. Even mine, which I've only had for a month or so, has an unacceptable amount of scratching.

Again, GG5 does scratch easily. I don't care what anyone says on an internet video, I know what's in my pocket.

 

[qfnol31]

Not that it really matters at this point, since the GN7 is gone and the Pixels use GG4, but what sort of scratches are we talking about? Are they surface or deeper? I'm wondering if the new GG5 processing would mess with any coating on the glass and make it more prone to scratching than it is on GG4.