Phone Screens?

[Guest]

Why have phone screens and stuff gotten weaker I feel like. Is there a logical reason to it?

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What do you mean by weaker? Do you mean they get weaker over time? Or the original one they manufacture is weaker compared to previous ones?

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Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

What do you mean by weaker? Do you mean they get weaker over time? Or the original one they manufacture is weaker compared to previous ones?

Sorry, should've been clearer. I mean I feel like in the past if you dropped a phone it would'nt crack nearly as easily as now, could just be me, though.

[bgibbz]

1 minute ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Sorry, should've been clearer. I mean I feel like in the past if you dropped a phone it would'nt crack nearly as easily as now, could just be me, though.

If you are thinking about 15 years ago, those screens were had far less technology and only had a plastic screen ussualy. Modern day screens have to have a digitizer and are therefore glass. Innovations such as gorilla glass however has made new phones quite a bit more crack resistant than phones from a few years ago.

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1 minute ago, Abyss Gaming said:

Sorry, should've been clearer. I mean I feel like in the past if you dropped a phone it would'nt crack nearly as easily as now, could just be me, though.

Tempered glass to the rescue. Though I have an ottobox case which covers the large part of my front screen so it is physically impossible to touch the glass. Yeah.

[idontknowwhy]

probably because phone companies now are more focused on their products being thin and looking good and not as much on overall build quality.

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Just now, bgibbz said:

If you are thinking about 15 years ago, those screens were had far less technology and only had a plastic screen ussualy. Modern day screens have to have a digitizer and are therefore glass. Innovations such as gorilla glass however has made new phones quite a bit more crack resistant than phones from a few years ago.

 

I mean from just recently, like the first ipod touches, phones, around that era.

[bgibbz]

1 minute ago, Abyss Gaming said:

I mean from just recently, like the first ipod touches, phones, around that era.

Well let me assure you that it isn't the case. You may feel that way because you haven't used those devices in years; so when you break a screen on a new device from a 3 foot drop you feel that your old phone would have withstood this, despite your old device maybe breaking from a 1 foot drop. I remember dropping my iPhone 3 off the edge of my bed (about 2-3 feet) and it cracking. However, more recently I dropped my iPhone 6 down the stairs (a 4 foot initial drop, plus 15 feet of bouncing and tumbling) and it game out unscathed. The glass is getting stronger for sure, its just hard to tell without a side by side comparison.

[dizmo]

Nah, as tech as advanced there's less space between the glass you touch, and the screen itself. The screen has also made it a lot closer to the sides of impact, thus are more affected by said impact. It's not really all that surprising if you really think about it.

We do have things like Motorolas shatterproof screen, but then we're going back to plastic and away from glass which scratches a lot easier.

 

22 minutes ago, idontknowwhy said:

probably because phone companies now are more focused on their products being thin and looking good and not as much on overall build quality.

That's not true at all. In fact I'd say build quality is drastically better than it was back in the day.