The 10 Best Selfie Sticks

There is no denying that humans love to take selfies (there is even a day officially dedicated to the art, June 21). But taking the best selfie requires patience, practice, and the right tools. While knowing which selfie apps are the best is important, getting your hands on a proper selfie stick is necessary to take your selfie game to the next level. While they are banned at all Disney Parks, The Colosseum, Buckingham Palace, and the MOMA, there are a million other places where they will come in handy (even if using one still turns you into a minor public nuisance). With new options and configurations, extra functionality, and sturdy build quality, we rounded up some of our favorite selfie sticks for catching group or solo shots, anywhere and anytime. With one of these you’ll be taking perfect selfies in no time.

Vimble 2 ($99)

Part smartphone gimbal part selfie stick, the FeiyuTech’s Vimble 2 is the perfect combination of the two — and the professional’s choice when it comes to phone selfies. Not only do the gimbal motors stabilize the phone for video shooting, they also allow users to adjust the angle of the phone using the integrated controls, making it easier to get the right composition. You can also quickly change shooting direction form horizontal to vertical. Plus, the new trigger button has a quick setting function, leaving your hands free while shooting. The built-in micro USB port allows for easy charging.

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Smatree Telescopic ($16)

This selfie stick is not only perfect for your phone, but also your GoPro. Features an adjustable head that allows for multiple shooting angles. A small self-portrait mirror at the top lets you know the correct position for taking photos.

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SelfieTIK ($36)

A fully retractable selfie stick, the SelfieTIK is portable and stylish. Features Bluetooth capabilities and can be used with your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. The selfie stick also works as a remote, allowing you to take a photo from as far as 33 feet away from your phone. Charging time takes only 2 hours, but one full charge can take up to 40,00 photos and last up to 78 hours. The SelfieTIK weighs less than 4 ounces and includes an anti-lost alarm to prevent you from leaving your bag behind.

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SelfieTIK

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Mighty Selfie Stick ($80)

The Mighty Selfie Stick is probably the longest selfie stick you will find. At 10 feet the Mighty Selfie Stick is perfect for professional grade video and of course taking selfies. Features a steel tripod and Bluetooth remote device, with interchangeable mounts for GoPro, mobile, and digital cameras. Set up takes seconds and the strong phone mount can hold a phone up to 4.25-inches. Capture images and videos that you thought were only possible with a drone.

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CliqueFie Mini ($25)

The CliqueFie Mini comes in an array of colors, and reduces to a smaller size, so it easily fits in your purse or bag without scratching any of your personal belonging. The polarized steel pole construction is very lightweight, but still strong enough to support your phone. You can extend the selfie stick up to 28-inches, and it retracts to just 9-inches. Features a matching remote that is controlled by wireless Bluetooth. The simple one-button design is easy to operate and convenient for shooting a phone or video without downloading any apps.

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Reality shines into your ‘Minecraft’ escape via Windows Mixed Reality Flashlight

What’s great about virtual reality is that you can get the full-body building experience in Minecraft given the blocky world consumes your entire field of view. The drawback is that you don’t have visual access to the real world without lifting the headset up enough to peek into reality or completely removing the device altogether. Microsoft has a fix for this problem, at least for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, with the latest Insider Preview builds of Windows 10.

Available in Build 17723 in the Fast Ring and Build 18204 for Skip Ahead participants, Flashlight simply opens a visual portal into the real world, so you can see what’s going on outside the virtual environment without fully breaking the experience. With the press of a button, a voice command or Start menu shortcut, you can see who’s running through your play area or to quickly scan the environment.

Each Windows Mixed Reality headset includes two built-in visible-light low-resolution cameras to determine your location in the physical environment, removing the need for external cameras/sensors as seen with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Now when you click an assigned button on a controller, one camera provides a video feed of reality through an oval portal rendered within the virtual world. This view follows the controller as if you were shining a flashlight into reality.

Right now there are six Windows Mixed Reality headsets costing either $200 or $400, depending on the model (motion controllers included). They’re the “third” entry into the VR market with the Microsoft Store serving as the base distribution platform. The HTC Vive is based on Steam whereas the Oculus Rift has its proprietary Oculus Home. SteamVR for Windows Mixed Reality is currently in beta.

Outside the new Flashlight feature, the two new Windows Insider builds retire the XSS filter in Microsoft Edge and introduce new Group Policies and MDM settings for IT management. You will also find 157 new emoji stemming from Unicode 11. Microsoft even made a few tweaks to existing emoji and ninja cats.

Microsoft improved the update experience as well that uses a trained predictive model to determine the right time to restart your Windows 10 PC. According to the company, “we will not only check if you are currently using your device before we restart, but we will also try to predict if you had just left the device to grab a cup of coffee and return shortly after.”

Finally, the latest builds throw the Game bar into the Start menu while keeping the Win + G keyboard shortcut intact. If you’re running a kiosk, Microsoft improved the setup experience via a simplified assigned access configuration page. Additional improvements to time accuracy and traceability include Leap Second support, software timestamping, and a new precision time protocol.

Google’s first Smart Display from Lenovo goes on sale July 27

Available at Amazon, Costco, Walmart, Best Buy, and Lenovo.

Back at CES 2018, we got our very first look at Google’s alternative to the Amazon Echo Show — Smart Displays. There are a number of these coming out from LG, JBL, and Sony, but the first to go on sale is from Lenovo and is launching in stores tomorrow, July 27.

There are two Lenovo Smart Displays to choose from, including an 8-inch and 10.1-inch model. Aside from the difference in screen size, however, these are essentially the same products.

The best way to think about Smart Displays are like Google Homes with screens. You can talk to the Google Assistant and ask it whatever you’d like, but since there’s a screen along with the speaker, you can get visual elements to go along with your questions/commands, too.

Out of the box, you’ll be able to use the Lenovo Smart Display to watch YouTube, listen to Spotify, tune into podcasts via Google Podcasts, follow step-by-step recipes with Food Network, catch up with your favorite HBO Now shows, and much more.

The Lenovo Smart Displays go on sale tomorrow, July 27 at Amazon, Costco, Walmart, Best Buy, and Lenovo’s own website.

Pricing is $199.99 for the 8-inch model and $249.99 for the 10.1-inch variant.

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These New Smart Displays include Google Assistant

Smart Displays are coming first from JBL, Lenovo, LG, and Sony.

One of the big trends from CES 2018 was Google’s response to the Amazon Echo Show. In 2017, Google matched the Amazon’s Echo Dot with the Google Home Mini, and this year it took aim at the Show with its new smart displays with Google Assistant built in.

Smart Displays are Google Assistant-powered speakers that also feature screens, and while we likely won’t see a Google Home-branded one until later in the fall, there are already four companies that have announced Smart Displays of their own. Let’s take a look at what we know so far.

• Lenovo Smart Display
• JBL Link View
• LG ThinQ View WK9
• Sony’s yet-to-be-announced Smart Display

Lenovo Smart Display

The first of these gadgets announced was the Lenovo Smart Display. You’ll be able to get Lenovo’s Smart Display with either an 8-inch or 10-inch display, and while the 8-inch model opts for a traditional plastic back, the 10-inch unit has a gorgeous bamboo one.

Both models have an odd wedge on the back, and this allows you to position the Lenovo Smart Display either vertically or horizontally. There are buttons for adjusting speaker volume, and there’s even a switch that places a physical lens cover over the front-facing camera that’s used for video calls.

Lenovo will sell the 8-inch Smart Display for $199, and upgrading to the larger 10-inch one will cost you $249. It’s on sale starting July 27.

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JBL Link View

JBL’s Smart Display goes by the name of the Link View, and while it serves the same general purpose as the Lenovo Smart Display, its design is quite a bit different. JBL has only announced one version of the Link View so far, and it comes with an 8-inch screen. There’s a 5MP camera above it and a JBL logo at the bottom and both the left and right side are flanked by two 10W stereo speakers that are paired with a passive radiator on the back to enable “rich, deep bass.”

The body as a whole favors an oval shape versus the rectangular nature of the Lenovo Smart Display, and while you won’t find any bamboo back here, it’s arguably the sleeker of the two thanks to the all-black paint job. Along with this, there’s also support for Bluetooth, Google Cast, and IPX4 splash resistance.

Pricing details have yet to be announced, but JBL says the Link View will be available at some point this summer.

LG ThingQ View WK9

LG’s first foray into the world of Smart Displays comes in the form of the LG ThinQ View WK9, and while we’ll have to get hands-on time with the device before we can make any final judgments, it currently looks like the most underwhelming of the Smart Displays we’ve seen so far.

The large, boxy design looks boring and not all that aesthetically pleasing, and while the 8-inch touchscreen display itself should be fine, the fact that there’s no tilt to it like there is on Lenovo and JBL’s options could make for some difficult viewing angles.

Speaker tuning from Meridian Audio still has us interested, however, and this paired with the two front-facing stereo speakers will likely create a solid audio experience. Similar to the other Smart Displays on this list, you’ll also find Chromecast support.

LG simply says that the WK9 is “coming soon” with a hefty price of $299.99.

Sony’s yet-to-be-announced Smart Display

Google confirmed that Sony will be releasing a Smart Display, but a month on from CES and we still know literally nothing about it. Neither specs or renders for the speaker have been released, and as such, there’s not a whole lot we can say about it right now.

As soon as details are released, we’ll be sure to share them with you!

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Should You Buy The Samsung Galaxy Tab E Lite for Kids?

The Kids Tab E Lite doesn’t have to be a powerhouse for $100

It’s easy to say that Android tablets are dead in the water, and in the high-end market that might be true (though we’re pretty fond of the Galaxy Tab S3). But not everybody shopping for a tablet wants to spend $300 or more on an iPad — especially if they’re just looking for something to distract their kids during a long drive or doctor’s appointment.

Samsung seems to have a good solution with its confusingly named 7-inch tablet; depending on who you ask, it’s either called the Galaxy Tab E Lite Kids or the Kids Tab E Lite. Regardless of its name, it’s been extremely popular on both Amazon and Best Buy, getting overwhelmingly positive reviews from satisfied parents. So what’s all the fuss about? And should you buy one for your own kids?

It should be obvious, but it’s important to keep in mind that the Kids Tab E Lite isn’t meant to be a powerhouse iPad competitor like some of Samsung’s other tablets. Its specs are minimal, with a 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage (expandable by up to 32GB via microSD), and Android 4.4 KitKat. Yep, you read that right. That’s all you need to run Samsung’s kid-friendly software, though, along with the media and games the tablet is meant to handle.

If you’ve ever enabled Kids Mode on your Galaxy phone, the interface on the Kids Tab E Lite will already be familiar — it’s a pared down version of Android that displays large shortcuts to the bundled apps on the tablet … and not much else. This is by design, to keep your kids from meddling where they shouldn’t, and make it easy to jump straight into the various STEM- and Common Core-focused games and books.

The Kids Tab E Lite comes with over 20 kid-friendly apps to get you started, but you also get a free three-month subscription to Samsung Kids to download more. There’s plenty of content from distributors like DreamWorks, Sesame Street, PBS Kids, and National Geographic to keep your kids educated and entertained at the same time. After the first three months, it’s either $7.99 each month or $59.99 for a year.

There’s a reason this tablet has so many great reviews — it’s kid-proof and has plenty of stuff for kids to do.

Aside from its kid-friendly software, the Kids Tab E Lite is essentially just Samsung’s Galaxy Tab E Lite with a durable, non-toxic case that protects it from the inevitable drops it’ll endure. It packs a 3600mAh battery that’ll keep it running all day, and a 2MP rear camera to kickstart your kid’s artistic side — no front camera though, so selfies are off the table.

The Kids Tab E Lite isn’t the most powerful tablet around by any means, but for $100, it doesn’t have to be. It just has to compete against Amazon’s Fire tablets and other inexpensive, kid-oriented tablets, and it seems to do so pretty well with Samsung’s well-versed ecosystem. If you’re on a Benjamin budget, give this tablet a shot — and if you’ve already got one, let us know about your experiences in the comments below!

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Top 3 Reasons You Should Buy a Mid-Range Phone Over a Flagship in 2018

Phones keep getting better for cheaper. Why not take advantage of that?

One of the most exciting shifts in the smartphone world over the last few years has been the increasing availability of great mid-range options. Everybody loves a sleek flagship phone, but not everybody can or should spend the money on one — they’re just overkill for some people’s needs.

A lot of people just want a phone for casual gaming, social media, or photography, and while that all does tend to be a little better on flagships, that’s not a reason to drop upwards of $1000. You can easily get away with spending half as much or even less to accomplish the same things — and if savings aren’t a good enough reason on their own, here are a few more reasons you might want to go for a mid-range phone next time you’re shopping around.

You don’t have to sacrifice design anymore

Build quality used to be a big reason to go for a flagship instead of its cheaper, plasticky counterparts, but these days phones of all prices are really, really well-made. The OnePlus 6 and Moto Z3 Play are about $500 a piece, and both feature highly refined metal and glass designs, complete with the elongated aspect ratios and dual cameras you’d expect of a high-end phone in 2018.

Even going well below the $500 price range, a phone like the Honor 7X runs as cheap as $200 and still features a sturdy aluminum build with dual cameras and a fast fingerprint sensor. You really can’t ask for a better value than that.

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The cameras are getting pretty great, too

I’m not going to pretend like flagships don’t still take the best pictures — the Galaxy S9 remains my pocket camera of choice, particularly for its excellent low-light performance. Mid-range phones are capable of taking some pretty great shots too. I spent a week in New York earlier this month and left my S9 behind to take the Moto Z3 Play out for a spin. The results were actually pretty great — take a look at some of the shots I got walking around Manhattan and Brooklyn.

I was definitely impressed with the photos I was able to take with a phone that goes for just $450 on Amazon. It might not have as much dynamic range as the S9 (and it certainly doesn’t have the low-light capabilities), but with a bit of work in an app like VSCO, you can get some pretty great results. Other phones like the OnePlus 6 or the original Google Pixel (depending on your viewpoint, that could be a mid-range phone, an old flagship, or both) do even better — the point is that there are plenty of affordable phones that take great photos.

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The money you’ll save can be better spent elsewhere

What would you rather have for the same money: a flagship phone without any kind of protection, or a mid-range phone with an assortment of cases, some nice headphones, and maybe a portable battery pack or a Bluetooth speaker? The money you would otherwise spend getting a top-of-the-line phone can go towards any number of accessories for your mid-range phone, with enough cash left over to buy yourself a nice dinner and even pay your phone bill — or whatever else you’d want to use it for, it’s your money.

What phone is right for you?

It’s hard to define exactly what constitutes as a mid-range phone these days — back when flagship phones only cost about $650, $400 felt the upper end of mid-range, but with today’s phones reaching the quadruple digits in price, even $600 or $700 feels somewhat reasonable.

Whatever the case, have you stopped buying flagships and started going for mid-range phones instead? If so, how has your experience been so far? Let us know in the comments below!

Samsung is blowing out its official S9, S9+ and Note 8 cases for as low as $10

Find a new case for your phone at a hefty discount.

If you’re a current owner of a Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+ device, Samsung has a blow out sale going on right now taking the price of some of its official cases for those devices down to as low as $10 each. As these cases start at $30 normally, this offer is saving you at least $20 no matter which case you choose. There are even a few Galaxy Note8 cases available in this sale. Shipping is free on all orders.

This isn’t the only great offer Samsung has available right now either. It’s also giving customers a free ChromeBook 3 and microSD card with purchases of an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+ device. So if you’re still rocking the Note8, this would be the perfect time to make the switch.

The cases available in today’s sale include:

• Galaxy S9: Silicone Cover, Gray for $9.99 (was $30)
• Galaxy S9+: Silicone Cover, Gray for $9.99 (was $30)
• Galaxy S9+: Hyperknit Cover, Red for $14.99 (was $35)
• Galaxy Note8: Alcantara Cover, Black for $9.99 (was $30)
• Galaxy Note8: Protective Cover, Black for $14.99 (was $35)
• Galaxy Note8: Rugged Protective Cover, Black for $24.99 (was $50)

With prices like these, it’d be surprising for these cases to stay in stock for very long. Head over to Samsung today to grab one yourself before they’re all gone.

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These awesome retro game cabinets are available at a $101 discount when you pre-order

Got a quarter?

What was your game of choice as a kid? The one you pumped all your change into? The one where you actually had to travel to it just to play, instead of simply turning on your TV? Play it again and forever with one of the Arcade 1Up gaming machines. Each one has a selection of classic arcade games and an outer decor with logos and art. Pick the one with your favorite game or buy them all and laugh maniacally when you realize you don’t have to pump quarters in to keep playing.

Pre-orders start now but the cabinets don’t release until September 25. Arcade 1Up plans to release five cabinets total. If you want to buy one, you’ll want to be looking at Walmart. There you can find four of five currently available for pre-order at $299. GameStop is selling the cabinets, too, but for $399.99.

• Street Fighter cabinet: Street Fighter II Champion Edition, Street Fighter II Turbo, and Street Fighter II The New Challengers (Walmart/GameStop)

• Centipede cabinet: Centipede, Crystal Castles, Missile Command, and Atari Millipede (Walmart/GameStop)

• Asteroids cabinet: Asteroids, Tempest, Major Havoc, and Lunar Lander (Walmart/GameStop.

• Rampage cabinet: Rampage, Gauntlet, Joust, and Defender (Walmart/GameStop)

That last one is my personal favorite because it has the game I spent most of my time playing – Joust. Love that game. Heck, if I ever find my way to an arcade bar these days it’s the game I still play the most. Stupid pterodactyls.

Each cabinet has a 17-inch LCD screen, licensed artwork, and controls for multiplayer. These aren’t exactly full-sized arcade cabinets, coming in at 45.8 x 23 x 19 inches and weighing 63 pounds. While much larger than novelty cabinets we’ve seen before, you’ll probably still want to play these in a sitting position.

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Dashlane 6 now available with VPN, credit monitoring, and more

All the new goodies will set you back $9.99/month.

Password managers are essential tools in mid-2018, and one of the most popular — Dashlane — is now getting its big version 6 update. You’ll still be able to generate and store secure passwords with Dashlane 6 like you’ve done before, but instead of focusing solely on passwords, you’ll now have access to a heap of tools to keep your digital presence as safe and secure as can be.

Upon opening Dashlane 6, you’ll see the all-new Identity Dashboard. Here, users can view their Password Health Score with a breakdown of what’s affecting it, Dark Web monitoring data, security alerts, and more.

Dashlane 6 also brings real-time credit monitoring, up to $1 million in coverage for identity theft insurance, and a full-fledged VPN to keep your online activity secret when using a public Wi-Fi network.

If you’re interested in checking this out for yourself, Dashlane 6 still has a free plan that lets you store up to 50 passwords and use Dashlane on one device. You can then upgrade to Premium or Premium Plus for $4.99/month or $9.99/month, respectively. No matter which of the paid plans you choose, each one is billed annually.

This pricing makes Dashlane one of the more expensive options compared to LastPass and 1Password, but considering all of the new features beyond password management that you now get, it sounds well worth the cost.

Do you think you’ll sign up for Dashlane 6?

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How strong is Gorilla Glass 6? We sat down with Corning to talk about the future of phones

Corning is sitting behind the curtain, designing the glass that keeps our phones alive.

Corning recently unveiled its next-generation Gorilla Glass. It’s promised to be stronger than ever and designed to balance the effects of drops from heights and numerous drops to address what we need most— phones that won’t shatter when they slip out of our hands.

I spoke with Scott Forester Division Vice President of Marketing and Innovation Products at Corning about Gorilla Glass 6 and the future of glass technology.

Corning first looked at what Gorilla Glass 5 has accomplished and thought about the biggest issue with glass on phones. Though Gorilla Glass 5 out-performs from higher drops, it was counter-productive to increase the height success rate when the deeper issue lies in how often we drop our phones, not at what height we drop them from.

With our previous generation, Gorilla Glass 5, we were showing drop survivability up to 1.6 meters, so basically selfie height and 80 percent of the time in our testing the devices would survive on to rough surfaces like concrete or asphalt. With Gorilla Glass 6, we were able to raise that height even higher, but you would get kind of diminishing returns because not all of us are basketball players dropping phones from way up there.

So we actually started doing consumer surveys. What we found when we did a global survey is that most people drop their phone on average about seven times a year — and about half the time they’re dropping it from one meter high.

So with Gorilla Glass 6, we wanted our teams to look at how we could address this particular problem — which we’ve all encountered, which is dropping our phones multiple times or repetitive times. With Gorilla Glass 6, in our testing, we’ve shown it passing or surviving 1-meter drops, on average, 15 times. Compared to Gorilla Glass 5, our 1-meter performance is about 2x better. Most competitive glasses would actually fail the first time you drop it on a rough surface from 1 meter. So we feel like we’ve, again, kind of raised the performance of the glass, and specifically addressed the customer issue that we hear, which is drop performance in our phones.

So, since Gorilla Glass 6 is better from less heights, but more often, does that mean it no longer meets the original standard of Gorilla Glass 5’s 1.6-meter drop performance? No. It has both! It still provides the same success rate from 1.6 meters (actually a bit higher), but now it also, has a higher success rate from just 1-meter.

Gorilla Glass 6 actually raises the performance of drops from heights better than Gorilla Glass 5. In Addition to that, it gives you the continuous drops, as well. So you get the benefit on both sides of those attributes.

I know what you’re all thinking. “So, why does my phone screen crack if Gorilla Glass is so great?” You’re not the only one who worries about that. Forester’s own kids ask him the same question.

Those are the questions we all face, right? I mean, my kids ask the same questions.

If you were to bend the glass rod you would create this tensile stress on the surface of the glass. It’s that tension that’s going to basically separate the glass and propagate the cracks, and then eventually break. So what we do with Gorilla is, we actually put a counterforce in there called compressive stress. It’s actually keeping the surface under compression and acts like an armor that’s fighting against that tension you get when you drop your phone. With Gorilla Glass 6, we were actually able to put 40 percent more compressors stress into the glass surface.

Corning also takes into consideration a wide variety of different phone features, like glass thickness, whether the glass is raised above the phone significantly, how stiff is a device, what’s underneath the glass (like screws or components that could create a localized bending event), and more. There are innumerable possibilities to consider when creating real-world scenarios for drop events.

There are always other real-world aspects that play into drop performance. It gets really complex, and as a user, it can be kind of frustrating.

All those factors play into drop performance. In fact, if you have two phones that had exactly the same glass, exactly the same thickness, but they were designed by two different engineers with different displays or structures underneath, they performed differently. That has less to do with the glass. It just has to do with the way the phone is designed.

Hopefully it kind of gives you a broader perspective of the different variables that are in play versus it just being when you drop your phone on the asphalt outside.

Corning works very hard, and for a very long time to create thousands of scenarios for drop events using what they call “pucks” as the testing material (because, you know, dropping thousands of $800 phones would be kinda expensive).

We do thousands of drops events a year. We look at those four important elements; glass thickness, how proud the glass is (how much it is raised up from the phone), how stiff the entire phone is, and whether it’s a micro or localized stiffness. Then, we create a puck that we think is in the envelope — that’s kind of on the average. Then we use that puck to evaluate all of our materials.

One final thing Forester mentioned to me was how glass is positioned to be an ideal material for the future. The reason? It’s non-conductive, which is something metal can never be. Glass can always be made stronger.

What’s interesting is, as glass has gotten more durable and able to withstand these drops, you’re actually starting to see it reach a threshold where people are willing to remove the material on the back of the phone. Instead of it being metal or plastic, they’ll put glass. Designers are starting to feel that glass is significantly better than previous generations. It’s really broken – no pun intended – the perception of what glass can do and now.

Glass is kind of on the right side of the technology curve, from a material set. 5G has these microcells — small wavelength antennas, which can interfere with things like rain and environmental conditions, and they’re hypersensitive to metal. So the less metal you can put on your phone, the more flexibility you’re going to have to adopt things like 5G. Glass is a really unique material set when you begin to add all those components features you don’t think about every day.

Glass, it sounds like, is the future of phones and Gorilla Glass has proven its mettle at being the strongest you can put on a mobile device.

Do you think the next generation of Gorilla Glass is going to keep your phone screen from cracking as often? Has your phone avoided the dreaded cracked screen so far?