Gorilla Glass 5 can handle rough smartphone drop

Glassmaker Corning’s new Gorilla Glass 5 — the chemically strengthened super glass that several consumer electronics makers use in their devices — survives up to 80 per cent of the time when dropped from a height of 1.6 metres.
The new glass is formulated to improve drop performance from gadgets that are dropped on to rough surfaces from certain heights — specifically, waist height to shoulder height, The Verge reported.
The new glass is the successor to Corning Gorilla G