Why phone screens aren’t made of plastic or another transparent, hard-to-break material?

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My issue is with glass smashing into pieces under the smallest falls

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Older phones where plastic screens, and would scratch easily. I still carry my phone in a pocket without my keys or wallet, out of habits learned from that time.

Glass is extremely hard to scratch, but easy to break. So they try to keep coming out with harder to break glass (gorilla glass).

Anonymous 0 Comments

Older phones where plastic screens, and would scratch easily. I still carry my phone in a pocket without my keys or wallet, out of habits learned from that time.

Glass is extremely hard to scratch, but easy to break. So they try to keep coming out with harder to break glass (gorilla glass).

Anonymous 0 Comments

Older phones where plastic screens, and would scratch easily. I still carry my phone in a pocket without my keys or wallet, out of habits learned from that time.

Glass is extremely hard to scratch, but easy to break. So they try to keep coming out with harder to break glass (gorilla glass).

Anonymous 0 Comments

Two reasons.

1. Because plastic scratches easily. Which is kind of a bullshit answer because it’s really about…

2. They get a lot more money if you purchase a new phone when you can’t find someone to repair the screen.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Two reasons.

1. Because plastic scratches easily. Which is kind of a bullshit answer because it’s really about…

2. They get a lot more money if you purchase a new phone when you can’t find someone to repair the screen.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Two reasons.

1. Because plastic scratches easily. Which is kind of a bullshit answer because it’s really about…

2. They get a lot more money if you purchase a new phone when you can’t find someone to repair the screen.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Plastic is not as good a conductor for touch and it scratches very easily. Imagine what the coins in your pocket would do to a plastic screen.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Plastic is not as good a conductor for touch and it scratches very easily. Imagine what the coins in your pocket would do to a plastic screen.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Plastic is not as good a conductor for touch and it scratches very easily. Imagine what the coins in your pocket would do to a plastic screen.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I remember Motorola did this with the ShatterShield for a few models. Plastic screen that was impossible to shatter. All the ytubers at the time focused on how easy it was to scratch even though a simple film (PET) screen protector made this more ideal than gorilla glass. It didn’t seem to take off outside the Motorola force line of phones unfortunately.