10 Mobile Phone Features People Never Really Needed
7. Scratch Resistance
Gorilla glass will certainly protect your device against most occasional scratches, but it still does not perform as well for incidental drops. The popular tough glass manufactured by Corning, durable as it is, breaks just as any other type of glass would. This has been a painful lesson to many owners of expensive smartphones. 25% of recently surveyed iPhone users said their screen was broken, smashed or cracked, while 31% said they would never bother to fix it. Ultimately, its not scratches but shattered screens that render mobile phones useless. While Corning claims to constantly improve scratch and shatter-resistance of their glass, it still does not seem to cut it. The producer's efforts are often offset by the growing size of our phones. The bigger the screens, the more fragile they seem to be when dropped on the pavement. While I'm typing these words only Motorola Droid Turbo 2 flawlessly passes all the merciless drop tests people are putting it through on YouTube (hard as they are to watch). Dear phone manufacturers, please finally focus more on shatter-resistance and general ruggedness instead of scratch-resistance alone.
