So much for GG3....

[my95z34]

After owning the phone for literally 7 days, my girlfriend managed to shatter the screen on her N5. She says it fell off a counter and landed face down. The glass is so bad you can feel it, and when you run your fingers across the screen you actually get little bits of glass powder on your fingers.

Surprisingly, the LCD is perfectly fine.

And here's how bad it is...

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[OuncE718]

After owning the phone for literally 7 days, my girlfriend managed to shatter the screen on her N5. She says it fell off a counter and landed face down. The glass is so bad you can feel it, and when you run your fingers across the screen you actually get little bits of glass powder on your fingers.

Surprisingly, the LCD is perfectly fine.

And here's how bad it is...

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There is no phone that can withstand a drop from a counter top and land on its face. This is nothing new.

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[rayiskon]

not this again....

 

[Beauenheim]

Gorilla glass is scratch resistant. NOT Impact/Shatter resistant. It never has been.

Phones break. It's not the glasses fault.

 

[my95z34]

I know it'll break. But I just have never seen GG shatter like that. It was crazy to me. I'm not complaining, or raising a stink. I just didn't know it was possible. All of the test videos I've seen it seemed to withstand harsher conditions. But oh well.

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[RoyJ]

Not sure what N5 drop test you watched lol. All the ones I have seen end up looking like your girls phone

 

[Beauenheim]

I know it'll break. But I just have never seen GG shatter like that. It was crazy to me. I'm not complaining, or raising a stink. I just didn't know it was possible. All of the test videos I've seen it seemed to withstand harsher conditions. But oh well.

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But Gorilla Glass isn't even shatter resistant. The title of the thread is complaining about Gorilla Glass 3, but it has nothing to do with Gorilla Glass.

 

[my95z34]

Not sure what N5 drop test you watched lol. All the ones I have seen end up looking like your girls phone

Lol, I think I watched them run over a phone with GG3 with a car and the glass didn't break at all. But everything else inside did, lol

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[GUGUITOMTG4]

Lol, I think I watched them run over a phone with GG3 with a car and the glass didn't break at all. But everything else inside did, lol

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You must surprise when that car has concrete like tires and the phone doesn't break.
You can throw a Basket Ball on top of a phone and nothing could happen, but the story may vary if you do it with a lighter but much harder Golf ball

 

[RoyJ]

Getting run over is a lot of pressure, but also low impact. I'm sure they went real slow over it right? Not like driving by at 40mph+ ?

Different story when it's dropped. It's higher impact. Your phone is actually falling into something and coming to an abrupt stop from however fast it was going.

Driving over it won't do it any justice because think of how wide a tire is. As it passes over the phone, most of the pressure is going to be more or less evenly distributed over the face of the glass. Also, tires are made of rubber. Soft material. Not to mention the suspension will give a little when the tire goes over the phone.

It's two different ballparks man, apples to oranges.

Watch any actual "drop" test. The glass won't survive a drop. As mentioned earlier by others GG3 is scratch resistant. Not shatter proof.

 

[my95z34]

Gotcha.

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[RoyJ]

Terribly sorry for your loss. My hats off to the fallen N5.

May I recommend these in the future?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GQOQKJE

Best glass screen protector I've found for this phone. Pretty cheap, too. Only bad part is they ship from China. So you will probably forgot you ordered it by the time you get it.

I've personally applied 3 to 3 different N5. My old one, my new one and a friends. Application is pretty easy if you know how to put one on.

Comes with everything you need plus instructions too. I haven't seen one air bubble or had any part of mine lift off the screen ever.

 

[FuMMoD]

I swear women break their phones like it's no big deal. I stopped buying my girlfriends phones years ago after having to buy 2 different Blackberrys. My current gf has shattered her iPhone 5 twice this year and had to go get it's screen swapped. I baby all my stuff whether it's my car or my phone lol.

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[trh1341]

Dude. Glass is GLASS why do people not understand that there will NEVER be an unbreakable phone! Stop! Its stupid. Sorry about the phone but seriously... Where did ANYONE say that the glass would be unbreakable??? The GLASS fell FACE DOWN on (I'm going to assume) TILE!

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[Gipjoe]

*Cough* Sorry to sound kinda mean, but its a phone made of glass. Glass is not shatter proof, it is very brittle. T

 

[r0cky0790]

Terribly sorry for your loss. My hats off to the fallen N5.

May I recommend these in the future?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GQOQKJE

Best glass screen protector I've found for this phone. Pretty cheap, too. Only bad part is they ship from China. So you will probably forgot you ordered it by the time you get it.

I've personally applied 3 to 3 different N5. My old one, my new one and a friends. Application is pretty easy if you know how to put one on.

Comes with everything you need plus instructions too. I haven't seen one air bubble or had any part of mine lift off the screen ever.

I have this on my phone. Don't know if my Nexus will survive a deadly fall with it on there but it's suppose to.

"Cataclysm + ElementalX [Tap2Wake Enabled] + Dalvik/Bionic Patches + Exposed + Gravity Box & Candy shop Mods + DPI 440 + Apex Launcher w/ Morena Icons + Jishnu's Camera Mod/LG G2 Camera Port + Latest Adreno GPU Drivers + -75 UV Across The Board + 4 OC Cores @ 2.226 GHz + TWRP" My Nexus Is The ?,┌П┐[◣_◢]┌П┐! [If I Helped You ? Me!]

 

[bblzd]

Gorrila Glass is crazy strong compared to Soda-lime glass. It can do some amazing things which can be seen in very specific tests on the internet. This gives people a sense that the glass is more or less indestructible. In many cases it will not be.

 

[my95z34]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3mhAVC6cBA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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[RoyJ]

Exactly what I meant. Plus if the tires are not overfilled (set to the recommended pressure on the tag in the driver door) then the tires have a little give to them as well.

That can't really be used as an accurate test of how your phones glass will hold up. As I said earlier he went really slow at first. Even on the last one he was only doing about 10-20mph. In the beginning he even had a towel under it.

I hate when people make those videos because it doesn't accurately depict how the phone will react under stress. I mean how many people are going to accidentally run over their phones? Even if you do, you probably would have had to DROP it somewhere, first. Go by DROP tests. Those "drive" tests are completely useless.

 

[my95z34]

Yeah, I understand.

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