Corning is well known for its Gorilla Glass protection which protects the displays of many smartphones worldwide. The US company is showcasing its latest product for high-performance tablets, notebooks and even televisions at the ongoing Display Week in San Jose, California. The product is named Astra Glass.
Even though tablets, notebooks and laptops don’t fall down as often as a smartphone due to their large form factors and the fact that we don’t move the smart TV and laptop as often as we carry the smartphone, there are some chances that their display could get damaged. For instance, a child may throw a lawn tennis ball or any other toy on the television screen. Also, you may have your laptop in your bag and then it hits a hard surface with the impact on the display and similar situations. Thus, the Astra Glass designed for devices that are larger than smartphones comes in handy. The glass protector is precisely engineered to retain the higher pixel density of high-performance displays. The design ensures the displays on future tablets, laptops, and 8K TVs remain bright, fast and deliver life-like images.
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However, we may likely not find the Astra Glass on budget or mid-range devices as Corning is reportedly positioning it as its most-premium protective glass for devices with larger displays. So any tablet, notebook or television with Astra Glass will likely be pretty expensive. Corning’s business director, Han Yim tips that the Astra Glass will provide manufacturers with “low total pitch variation, low total thickness variation, and low sag,” when it comes to high-end displays.
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