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Realme Unveils Budget-friendly Smartphone

March 7, 2022 by Sweta Baruah

Realme has introduced a new addition to its entry-level C series family with the realme C35, an entry-level smartphone.

Commenting on the launch, Madhav Sheth, CEO Realme India, VP, Realme, and President, Realme International Business Group said, “We are thrilled to unveil the newest member of our C series smartphones as we continue our quest to become the world’s most popular smartphone brand. Realme’s entry-level C series has received a staggering response from our users and expanded to a family of 32 million users globally. Our newest member in the series is a new all-rounder in this segment, offering a remarkable combination of performance, camera and design in the entry-level segment, and we are confident that the Realme C35 will help us take this segment much further.”

The device is equipped with a 50MP AI Triple Camera and includes a primary camera with a 50MP image sensor with a wide area and an f/1.8 large aperture, a Macro Lens, a B&W lens and an 8MP Selfie camera with Sony Sensor. It features a new right-angle bezel design that is 8.1 mm thick and weighs 189 g. The smartphone is equipped with Unisoc T616 powerful processor, scoring 230,726 on AnTuTu benchmarks. It is an octa-core 12nm processor that clocks up to 2.0 GHz and adopts Cortex A75 structure. It also comes with a First FHD 6.6-inches screen in the Realme C series, 5000 mAh battery which can be charged with an 18W Type-C Quick Charge that comes in the box. It also comes with an instant fingerprint sensor and TÜV Rheinland High-Reliability Certification. According to the company, this is the first smartphone in the C series to include Dynamic RAM Expansion(DRE) technology.

The smartphone will be available in two storage variants, 4GB+64GB priced at INR 11,999 and 4GB+128GB priced at INR 12,999 and will be available in two colours, i.e. Glowing Black and Glowing Green. It is expected to go on sale starting March 12, on realme.com, Flipkart.com and mainline channels.

Filed Under: Mobile, News, smartphones Tagged With: news, Realme, realme c35, smartphone

Poco Expands M-series Lineup with M4 Pro 5G

February 15, 2022 by T3 India

Poco has launched its mid-range powerhouse, the Poco M4 Pro 5G, powered by the 5G-ready MediaTek Dimensity 810 processor. The device features up to 8GB of RAM along with Turbo RAM capability extending the device RAM up to 11GB, providing an enhanced and superfast multitasking experience. Packing higher performance with 33W MMT fast charging and a large 2-day 5000mAh battery, Poco M4 Pro 5G is a go-to device for users seeking the best of everything.

Commenting on the launch, Anuj Sharma, Country Director, Poco India said, “A future-ready device, Poco M4 Pro 5G is backed by an efficient performance combination of MediaTek Dimensity 810 chipset, aggressive gaming capabilities, and improved camera performance. Catering to today’s smartphone users, Poco M4 Pro 5G manages to pack a media consumption focused DCI-P3 90Hz Smart Display along with Dual Stereo speakers. We are happy to take this leap with the Poco M4 Pro 5G as it is a perfect combination of exciting future-ready features and affordable pricing.”

Poco M4 Pro 5G promises to deliver serious power with the MediaTek Dimensity 810 chipset. Built on a 6nm node architecture, this chipset makes Poco M4 Pro 5G a true power-efficient device. Adding on to a lag-free performance and enhanced visuals, this chipset comes equipped with two Cortex-A76 cores that run at 2.4GHz and six ARM Cortex-A55 efficiency cores that run at 2.0GHz along with a contemporary ARM Mali-G57 graphics card at 1068MHz.

Featuring a Game Turbo mode, Poco M4 Pro marks an immersive gaming experience with improved graphics and network optimisation. Gaming performance is further enhanced with the immersive and clear dual speaker setup. Taking the gaming level a notch higher, Poco’s X-liner motor offers a haptic touch-like response that vibrates in reaction to in-game actions. Also, now, consumers can trick their opponents with various voices during gaming with the Voice Changer feature in the Game Turbo mode.

For the ones who are always on the go, Poco M4 Pro 5G takes multitasking with much ease. Its UFS 2.2 technology offers 139% faster write speeds than UFS 2.1, and the integrated 5G modem supports dual 5G calls for future-proofed connectivity.

Featuring a 90Hz 6.6” FHD+ display coupled with a 240Hz touch sampling rate, Poco M4 Pro 5G visuals are a treat to the eyes. Catering to battery efficiency, the display featuring Smart Refresh Rate automatically adapts to 90Hz, 60Hz, and 50Hz to suit the streaming content. The display is further equipped with a wide colour gamut that supports DCI-P3 that brings a true-to-life detailed and clear visual experience. Readability under bright sunlight is also no issue, thanks to the Sunlight Display 2.0 feature.

Debuting Poco’s 2022 design philosophy, its Power Black, Cool Blue, and Poco Yellow colours make the device look premium, fresh, and unique in its skin. It comes with a blazing fast side-mounted fingerprint sensor power button, 3.5mm Hi-res Audio jack and IR Blaster, making it a complete package.

Another first in the Poco M-series, Poco M4 Pro 5G flaunts a 50MP Primary camera sensor designed to offer an aesthetic photography experience. Offering a clear and detailed picture quality, it delivers the best colours and vibrancy in all lighting conditions. Supporting the 50MP sensor is an 8MP Ultra-wide camera that captures breathtaking detailed shots in all possibilities. Adding to the frenzy is the 16MP front camera for all the selfie lovers for clear and vivid pictures.

The camera features advanced modes such as Night Mode, Kaleidoscope, Slow motion, Time-lapse video, among others. Fueled by a 33W fast in-box charger, Poco M4 Pro 5G packs a massive 5000mAh battery to ensure the functioning of all tasks with much ease and no stress. It is powered with Middle Middle Tab (MMT) technology amping up the device’s charging speeds for a quick use case. Not only this, the Poco M4 Pro 5G gets 50% charged in just 23 minutes.

Poco M4 Pro 5G will be available on Flipkart in three storage variants: 4GB + 64GB for ₹14,999, 6GB + 128GB for ₹16,999 and 8GB + 128GB for ₹18,999.

Filed Under: Mobile, News, smartphones Tagged With: dimensity 810, India, launch, m4, Mediatek, Poco, poco m4, smartphone

Asus Launches ROG Phone 5s Series

February 15, 2022 by T3 India

Republic of Gamers (ROG), a premium sub-brand of Asus, has announced the launch of its ROG 5s series in India. The company has introduced ROG Phone 5s and 5s Pro as the latest upgrade to its ROG Phone series.

The ROG Phone 5s series is powered by the flagship Snapdragon 888 Plus 5G Mobile Platform, featuring advanced 5G capabilities and premium Snapdragon Elite Gaming features. The processing power is complemented by up to 18 GB of fast LPDDR5 RAM. The optimised and upgraded GameCool 5 cooling system with AeroActive Cooler 5 (fan accessory bundled with ROG Phone 5s Pro only and optional for ROG Phone 5s), and the performance manager in Armory Crate ensures maximum performance is available for any gaming scenario.

Commenting at the launch, Dinesh Sharma, Business Head, Commercial PC and Smartphone, System Business Group, ASUS in India said, “We are constantly innovating and aiming to provide only the best and premium features in our Ultimate Weapons for Smartphone Gaming i.e. ROG Phone, to our ROG community. We are thrilled to launch two new additions to the ROG family – ROG Phone 5s and ROG Phone 5 Pro to upgrade the cutting-edge capabilities we offer for the mobile gaming ecosystem.”

The 144 Hz / 1 ms AMOLED display used in the ROG Phone 5s series now boasts an upgraded 360 Hz native touch-sampling rate and upgraded ultra-low 24ms touch latency for a super-smooth, seamless, and ultrafast gaming experience. Additionally, the ROG Phone 5s Pro features a colour version of the innovative ROG Vision rear matrix display, which shows customisable animations in response to a variety of system events. The AirTrigger 5 control system now supports the two rear capacitive touch sensors on ROG Phone 5s Pro, giving mobile gamers more control capabilities in their games. The ultrasonic shoulder side sensors on both models also support dual gestures, such as tap-and-slide or tap-and-swipe, for total control.

With the clock speed now up to a blistering 3 GHz, the CPU performance is designed to deliver matchless mobile processing power. ROG Phone 5s Pro also feature up to 18 GB of fast LPDDR5 RAM and 512GB of fastest UFS3.1 storage to dramatically increase the overall gaming performance. The upgraded GameCool 5 cooling system in the ROG Phone 5s series has an optimum thermal structure featuring a centred CPU with the battery split into two parts, one located on each side of the CPU. The re-shaped 3D vapour chamber and extensive graphite sheets also help to spread the heat evenly across the device to reduce heat build-up in the middle.

Now boasting an uprated 360 Hz native touch-sampling rate and uprated ultra-low 24ms touch latency, the 144 Hz / 1 ms Samsung E4 AMOLED display delivers a super-smooth gaming experience, with an ultra-low touch latency. Tuned in collaboration with leading visual-processing company Pixelworks, the supreme visuals are enhanced even further with world-beating colour accuracy, always-on HDR technology to improve non-HDR visuals, and a screen that’s protected by the toughest ever Corning Gorilla Glass Victus.

The ROG Phone 5s Pro additionally features a colour version of ROG Vision, the unique rear display that highlights the ROG creative spirit. ROG Vision can display a variety of cool animations that show you whether ROG Phone 5s Pro is charging, if there’s an incoming call, whether X Mode is enabled and more. Gamers can even create custom animations to make their phone even more personal.

The GameFX audio system on ROG Phone 5s series features symmetrical 7-magnet dual speakers for truly balanced stereo sound effects and a 3.5 mm headphone jack in conjunction with a Hi-Fi grade ESS DAC. Both have been optimised via a collaboration with audio specialist Dirac, giving the ROG Phone 5s series truly impressive audio quality and a wider soundscape. In addition to the premium sounds, GameFX also delivers crystal-clear in-game sound effects and powerful aural soundscapes.

The ROG phone 5s series features multiple antennas to ensure you are always connected to the internet with maximum speed and fidelity no matter how you hold the device to game, vertically or horizontally. To also ensure you’re connected to the fastest mode of internet, the ROG Phone 5s series features the amazing HyperFusion. HyperFusion allows the ROG Phone 5s to automatically choose the fastest internet connection and for apps that allow multiple connections, Hyperfusion can also connect to both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Wi-Fi channels at the same time, or it can combine both the Mobile data and Wi-Fi together increasing your internet connectivity speed.

The ROG Phone 5s series comes with a 64MP Flagship Sony IMX686 sensor main camera, offering you up to 8K Pro video recording, Pro mode for Photos and videos, and Superb Night mode performance. It also has a secondary 13MP camera to capture ultra-wide angles and offers a HyperSteady video-recording feature. And lastly, there’s the 5MP Macro camera for when you want incredibly close-up detail. For superior selfies, the front camera is a 24MP camera that can shoot 4K as well.

ASUS ROG Phone 5s and 5s Pro will be available from 18th February 2022 in India on Flipkart. The ROG Phone 5s 8GB / 128GB will be available at ₹49,999, ROG Phone 5s 12GB/256 GB will retail at ₹57,999 and the ROG Phone 5s Pro 18GB / 512GB will carry a price tag of ₹79,999.

Filed Under: Gaming, Mobile, smartphones Tagged With: Asus, ASUS ROG Phone 5, gaming, RoG

Xiaomi to rebrand its premium product series from ‘Mi’ to ‘Xiaomi’

September 15, 2021 by T3 India

While the corporate brand will continue to be represented by the well-known ‘Mi’ logo, Xiaomi India have today announced with an aim to unify its global presence and close the perception gap between the brand, Xiaomi’s premium ‘Mi’ series products will now be replaced with the new ‘Xiaomi’ logo.

However, ‘Redmi’ will continue with the same brand logo and the new naming convention, Xiaomi and Redmi, will be applied across both brands’ TVs, Laptops, and IoT offerings. Thus, with the new brand identity, Xiaomi plans to offer two distinct product series under the parent corporate brand – which will continue to represented by the ‘Mi’ logo, which had undergone a few changes earlier this year by adopting a softer, rounder contour on the corners of the previously square-shaped logo.

Commenting on the announcement Jaskaran Singh Kapany, Head of Marketing, Xiaomi India, said, “As a consumer-centric brand, our focus has always been on bringing new and innovative technology across segments that cater to the consumers evolving needs. We have been receiving an excellent response for our premium product range from consumers and Xiaomi fans. According to CounterPoint in May 2021, Xiaomi India captured ~14% market share in the 20K-45K category. This empowered us to push the boundaries of technology and innovation further to elevate the consumer experience.”

“Being a leading technology brand with a strong presence across the globe, our aim is to have a unified presence. With this new logo shift, we envision bridging the perception gap between our brand and products. The new Xiaomi logo will be used for our premium products that represent the pinnacle of technology and offer a premium experience. Ushering in the festive season, Xiaomi’s premium product series ‘Mi’ will be renamed to ‘Xiaomi’”, the press release mentions.  

Xiaomi aims that this new identity will propel the brand forward in the near future.  

Filed Under: smartphones, Technology Tagged With: Brand, mi, redmi, xiaomi, Xiaomi Redmi

Gorilla Glass: The Material Science Behind Scratch and Optics

August 10, 2021 by Sujith Gopinath

Corning has recently introduced Gorilla Glass DX products, specialist cover glass composites for smartphone camera modules. T3 India spoke to Scott Forester, Division Vice President, Business Director, Glass and Operations Council, Corning Gorilla Glass, who gave in-depth insights about the company, the product and material science.


Could you give us a background on the origins of Gorilla Glass?

It has been 13-14 years since we introduced Gorilla Glass, and it was really focused on smartphones and cover glass. With the introduction of touch sensors and touch interface, you needed some material to protect the touch interface, and the obvious choice was plastic since it is cheap and clear; just pack it up and put it right there and off you go. But with the first devices, people saw that it scratched, and scratched horribly. So, people started thinking about glass. But glass breaks. So how do we overcome that problem?

At Corning, we have been making glass for almost 170 years now and have seen lots of glass compositions. Most glasses you and I interact with is soda-lime glass or window glass, which has been around for thousands of years. It is cheap, easy to make, and transparent. Transparency is the fantastic part of glass. What we can do is engineer the composition of the glass and add strengthening processes. So typically, when you think of how to make glass strong, people just make it really thick. So, you have a glass that is super thick like bulletproof glasses. It is super strong but really thick.

It is a challenge to make really tough thin glass. So, what we did is, we took a glass composition and made the ions in the glass free ions so that they could easily be exchanged in and out of the glass. And you put it into a hot bath with potassium salt. And when you put a glass composition into this hot bath, the heat initiates an exchange of ions. What it does is, it takes the sodium ions out of the glass and replace with potassium ions from the bath. These potassium ions are huge compared to the outgoing sodium ions. So, you effectively jam the surface of the glass with these big ions. And what happens is this creates a massive compressive stress on the surface of the glass which makes it really hard to break. To break a substance, you have to put in more stress than what is on the surface by bending till it eventually breaks. But this is glass that you can physically bend and yet won’t break because you are not creating enough stress to overcome the inherent stress that is holding it all together. Our innovation was to create glass that wouldn’t break as you drop your device as it flexes. And that was the origins of Gorilla Glass. It is a combination of glass and a strengthening process. These are two things that make Gorilla Glass.

How did Gorilla Glass evolve over time?

And where we started was basically on trying to create drop weight in the glass. So, the very early glasses probably broke if it fell out of your pocket, may be knee-high, sitting in your chair or getting out of your car. Now we have glasses that can survive up to two metres on really rough surfaces. And that’s what we spent the last decade on Gorilla Glass, launching newer and newer generations. In parallel, as we have been working on tougher and tougher glasses, what you have seen is technology advanced as well. And as you see, your displays are getting brighter and brighter, and you also see higher and higher resolutions. And now things that did not really annoy us before, begin to annoy us. So small scratches on the glass become very obvious on a very high-resolution display. So we shifted our focus onto how we address scratches as well. And our latest glass called Gorilla Glass Victus provides a 50 percent improvement in drop performance that is up to two metres but is two times better at scratch performance as well. It is the industry-best in scratch resistance. That is a significant improvement. Now you get high-resolution displays without all that scratching and longer durability. That is really what Gorilla Glass is, and we do all of these testing in our labs. We drop it on asphalt and concrete and we scratch it with diamond indenters to really understand the science and technology behind glass as a material.

Some of the latest smartphones use tough scratch-resistant glass like sapphire crystal for the camera cover glass. What are the advantages of Gorilla Glass over these?

What you have seen is, as technology has got better and better, displays have got brighter, phones are lasting longer, and scratches are becoming more prominent. Earlier when I dropped my phone, it broke. But now, it survives, but gets all scratched up. It is like when you put airbags in cars. People are surviving, but they have to deal with injuries because they survived. It is the same with glass. So now we have this secondary problem, which is scratch. And that is what we are trying to address with Gorilla Glass Victus. We have seen this in the photography world as well. Photography has got much more complex. The cameras we used to know were with big telephoto lenses, massive pieces of hardware that had beautiful optics. And they had the luxury of space. You had this beautiful freedom to create lenses that were big, highly stacked, and highly protected. If I wanted to protect the front, I would put a big lens cover there, so that my lenses don’t get scratched since it is covered in antireflective coatings. Now in smartphones, you don’t have that many degrees of freedom. These are getting smaller and smaller, and they try to jam all that optics into a really small space. They also have much smaller sensors to deal with. You are trying to overcome a lot of those constraints with software, making everything compressed. You see more and more cameras on the backs of phones now, taking up way more real estate. There used to be one pinhole, now you have three-four, sometimes five different lenses back there. And they are protruding out from the device. With all those constraints come trade-offs. So, if you want to make the devices as thin as you want, you have to protrude the camera out. And when you protrude it out, it is more likely to scratch. To protect the lens, you have a couple of options. You can use plastic, but we all know that plastic really scratches. You could use glass, which has been used for many years. Or you could use sapphire. Sapphire has got great scratch resistance as well. So, when you have cameras protruding out, you see devices with typically glass, and in some cases, sapphire. That is going to help with the protection side of it.

What are the major design and technical differences between the cover glass for displays and that for smartphone cameras?

As cameras get more and more compressed and stacked, it is more about light management and getting as many photons as possible into the camera. And you now have wide-angle cameras, low-light cameras, telephoto cameras, even LiDAR sensors in addition to visible and IR spectrum. All this light you have to manage, and the very first thing it goes through is that lens on the front which is your glass or sapphire. And you want 100 percent of that light to go in because you know once it is inside, there will be reflections and other lossy manipulations. So, you want every photon to go into that camera system. And today, the baseline systems are glass; and when light hits glass, four percent reflects right off the front. So, instantly you are getting only 96 percent into the system. Now on sapphire, it is even worse. Sapphire is double that. You straight away lose eight percent of light. So in this case, you only get 92 percent in. Though you might have an awesome system, it is like a ball chained to your leg or someone holding your arm behind your back. You are not getting that 100 percent of the light, no matter how good your systems are—your software, your editing. Our goals is how to get nearly all the light into the system. Our solution was a very durable antireflective layer on top of the glass. So, as I mentioned, glass reflects four percent of the light right off the front. Our Gorilla Glass DX knocks that down from four to one. Now we get 99 percent of the light. That is, nearly all the light will go into the photo system. And that is the big advantage of better optics. You know  very well that anti-reflective films and coatings are used all through photography, but not in mobile photography yet. While we invented the idea of bringing in better optics, our real invention is the scratch resistance. So, we take all of it back to scratch. There is a reason they don’t use AR films on cameras today because it scratches quite easily. And because these lenses are protruding from the back of the camera, they scratch even more because you are constantly rubbing your phone all over the place. So, what we developed was superior optics that has the high durability of Gorilla Glass. And in this, we have two products—we have the Gorilla Glass with DX and Gorilla Glass with DX+. DX offers the scratch resistance of glass, which is way better than traditional anti-reflective coatings and the DX+ actually has the scratch resistance approaching sapphire. So now, you can have an anti-reflective performance with either a glass scratch level or sapphire scratch level. And that’s really the innovation that we bring into the market. And we believe, because of the challenges and all the constraints involved in mobile photography, this is a great innovation that unlocks that last mile, that last three percent of photons that you just throw away today. So, if we get three percent more photons in there, that makes a significant difference in the actual system itself. Fundamentally that’s what Gorilla Glass DX family brings to mobile photography.

How do you achieve this better antireflective property?

As I mentioned in the Gorilla Glass example, we have a special glass composition for Gorilla Glass and then we have this hot salt bath, which has the ions. What we have done is create a glass composite. Typical anti-reflective films are really thin layers and that is managing light but they are very soft that you can scratch with your fingernail. What we came up with was this set of materials that we could combine with the underlying properties of Gorilla Glass. And we stacked those up. So you start with Gorilla Glass and then we stack a multi-layered composite on top of this through a typical type of deposition process. And we also engineer it to get the scratch resistance, the optics and the fundamental strength of Gorilla Glass on a pure durability perspective and we call that whole integrated stack a glass composite.

For us, it really is an invention. When you look at the different material sets, if you could envision an x-y graph with scratch on one side and anti-reflective capabilities on the other, you have AR coatings that have awesome anti-reflective properties, but they are poor in scratch. Then you have glass, which is in the middle, giving up a little reflection with one to four percent reflecting off the front, but giving much better scratch resistance. And that’s what the mobile industry is using today. Some people use sapphire because they want to have really good scratch performance. But then you give up almost eight percent of light in photons you lose. This is a conundrum of science that says you have to trade off—either scratch or optics. I can’t have both. And we have broken its back through material science that now you can have both. You can have scratch performance approaching sapphire and the optics of anti-reflective coatings, an all-in-one technology set. And that is a new innovation that just hasn’t existed before.

How do you manage dispersion in this multi-layered stack?

We try to make sure that you get a broad spectrum of visible light as well as the infrared spectrum and also deal with any of the out-of-focus features and other light transmission issues there. And we ensure that we have consistent AR feature on the lens itself. So, we focus on managing that first surface reflection. And once it is in the camera system, then everything else takes over. Like I said, it is a deposition process. That technology in itself is well known. What is different is the material sets that are used to give you that hardened layer as well as the antireflective properties. So, it is a multi-layered type of composite that is specially engineered to work with Gorilla Glass underneath. Hence the whole stack is meant to work in harmony, whether it is Gorilla Glass Victus or some other generation like Gorilla Glass 3. But it is the whole engineered piece of not only the material sets but doing it all in one step that allows you to have that technology. And for us it is really about the material science—choosing the right materials, understanding materials, and understanding light. Corning actually invented the first low-loss optical fibre almost 50 years ago. And today, the reason you and I can sit here today and look at each other thousands of miles away is through the internet. So you know, we have got deep expertise in light management especially in glass. And that really has helped us to think about how to manage light in a composite structure like this and really bring together the science and the right material science to ensure that you have a real broadband type of colour filter as well.

What are the other devices using Gorilla Glass other than display and camera cover glass?  What are the other devices where this glass is used?

What makes Gorilla Glass so unique is that it is strong while it is thin. So, applications, where that makes sense, are those areas where weight is important. If the device is not mobile, weight is not very important. But mobile devices like phones, laptops, tablets, smartwatches, AR/VR glasses—those are the types of devices where you see the application of Gorilla Glass. On the other side is optics. So, in areas where you got bright sunlight either outdoor or in many cases, indoor sunlight coming from overhead etc., if you can’t move your device easily, then optics plays as well. If you get reflections on your phone all the time, you just move your head a little, you move your phone a little bit and you don’t have the reflection anymore. So anywhere you can cut off the reflection, optics does not really play much role. But now we can look at devices that are mobile, and can’t move the device. Notebooks are one where you don’t have that easy mobility. You’ve got one axis you can move, but the rest of it is hard to move. So, we are seeing adoption in the notebooks space especially touch screen notebooks. We also see adoption in automobiles. So again, when you are in your car, there’s lot of ambient light and you get reflection off your dashboard, and you can’t avoid it.  There you need to have antireflection or better light management. And then there are outdoor kiosks and things like that. Those are emerging opportunities for us. As displays get better, more efficient and high-resolution with more touch interface, there are more opportunities to scratch and swipe. All of those need glass that is highly durable and can manage light really well, at the same time, light and strong. We are really excited about it and really feel that this is the next frontier of interface—to make our  displays an even more pleasing experience.

When we hear about Corning, the first thing that comes to our minds is Gorilla Glass. What are the other areas where Corning’s business interests exist other than Gorilla Glass?

Gorilla Glass as you know, is one of Corning’s consumer brands. There are billions of smartphones around the world, that is, around eight billion devices. And for most of us, it’s the first thing we touch in the beginning of the day and the last thing we touch. And you are probably touching a Corning glass. So for us, it is really a humbling experience. Since we are a material science company, we make a lot of things that go into the systems. Things like facial recognition, specific lasers and things like that require very high refractive index glass. The glass has the ability to bend light and create that broad spectrum of wavelengths. High index glass is hard to make. But we make a lot of it and that is being used in some of these emerging really compact facial recognition, infrared lasers, augmented reality, virtual reality, and all that kind of light management. That is one area where our speciality glass is being used. We also make stepper lenses for lasers. So for all your semiconductor industry, coming down from 12 nm to 8 to 5 nm, you got to manage the light in the ultraviolet range and you want to do it through high index glass and stacked stepper lenses. We make the core glass material and each company then cuts and designs the lenses into those big stacks and incorporate it with silicon and get more narrower and narrower wavelengths.

Now switching from glass to ceramics, we also make a catalytic converter for combustible engines. And the challenge there is how to filter out all that comes out of those gasoline engines, and in many cases, make the air purer than the air that comes out through the front, through the carburettor. And what we did was to create high surface area in this honeycomb structure of a glass-ceramic so that the surface area in the size of a coke can or a small bottle of this material is as big as a football field. So imagine this massive surface area all jammed into this tight honeycomb structure. We invented that and the process involves the materials to help through that filtration process. And that is in almost every car in the world. We also make really flat glass for displays for sandwiching the liquid crystal. The liquid crystal is an amazing material with the ability to turn wavelengths on and off, but it needs two pieces of glass that is really flat, and inert for the full process to work. So we make huge sheets of glass for large TVs, notebooks and all. So if you are touching display on your device, it mostly has our display glass in there.

And then we have a telecom part of our business. As mentioned before, optical fibre is a huge part of our business because we invented it. Now you get fibre closer and closer to the home. And as it gets closer and closer, the signal gets more dispersed because of the different connectors. The challenge is to minimise the loss in all those connection points along the way right up to your house. So, a tremendous amount of work is going on to get those connectors more condensed, easier to splice with less time required and are easy to install. But in general, those are the major ones. And lastly, we have the whole life sciences group that is highly dependent on biological and medical advancements where we provide glass beakers. Now we also provide the right substrate for analysis of different drugs as well as pharmaceutical packaging. For example, the simple little glass vial that we take for granted—we are now making millions and millions of those vials to play our small little part in the Covid vaccines around the world. So a lot of that just goes back to a sense of pride working for a technology company that continues to value people internally and externally.   

Could you give us an overview of your testing process for Gorilla Glass? Our lives are random. We drop things on concrete, asphalt, carpets, granite, and whatever surface is available. What we try to do in all of our testing are two things—first, we try to replicate real-world experiences and then we try to make that test repeatable so that you can actually look at it and begin to assess whether one material is better than the other, or whether we can improve its performance against this test. And for us, the biggest test in this application is scratch. We have analysed thousands and thousands of devices and phones that have dropped and seen two types of scratches. One is what we call a micro-ductile scratch, which are real fine hairline scratches that you see in reflections. And then there are these really big ones we call lateral cracking, where literally glass cracks and flies away, and they are really broad and deep. So, at our lab, we look at how we could replicate those real-world events. With any scratch test, you need your base material and something harder. Glass is in the middle. There are softer things like talc and gypsum that are not going to scratch glass. Hard things like diamonds and sapphires scratch glass. We chose garnet, which is harder than glass, and which replicates sand, which is where most of your scratches comes from. So what we do is, we make a sheet of 150 grit sand paper with garnet and scratch the glass with that. And when you turn it over, you can see scratches that are wide and deep similar to your experience in your everyday life. And we scratch it once and then put a different load. So the first load is a kilogram, typically that is the load applied when people wipe their phones with a cloth. For Gorilla Glass with DX+, which has such a great scratch performance, we apply 4kg, which is four times the usual load.

Filed Under: Mobile, Science, smartphones, Technology Tagged With: Corning, gorilla glass, gorilla glass dx, scott forester, victus

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Ambrane Unmasks Wise Roam Smartwatch

LG Unveils Rollable OLED TV at Croma

Elista Introduces Smart LED TVs

Apple Updates Technologies to Push the App Experience Forward

Lenovo Launches Tab P12 Pro 

Flexnest Launches Smart Elliptical Cross Trainer

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