Photo by MSVG/Flickr Gorilla Glass: harder than keys, not as tough as gravity. During a vacation earlier this month, my wife and I put our smartphones in a big, loose beach bag, the kind with bamboo ...

The Mohs hardness scale is a relative scale usually used for minerals and does not involve any measurement of deformation, as do other quantitative methods. It simply involves the assignment of a ...

Durability is a greater concern for smartwatches than for any other personal electronics device. Sure, cellular phones can take a beating, but at least you can protect them in a case. Smartwatches, by ...

According to Apple, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus have the most durable glass on a smartphone. During the scratch test, the iPhone 8’s screen developed deeper grooves on level 7 of Mohs Hardness Scale. This ...

For some context, in Zack’s previous videos on devices typically using Gorilla Glass 4, it usually takes a 5 or 6 hardness pick before scratches occur. But in the Note 7 video, non-removable marks are ...

YouTuber JerryRigEverything is back with a couple of new scratch and burn durability tests. He performs endurance tests on smartphones by testing how easily every component on the outside of the phone ...

Nelson did find that the scratches with the level six Mohs pick appear to be slightly fainter compared to previous iPhones, but there is no dramatic improvement. JerryRigEverything's results differ ...