Not exact matches
On the front and
back, it has hardened
glass that is the most resistant to
shattering (though the company warns it's still
glass and can break!).
Shattered fragments of stained
glass windows destroyed at the end of the English Civil War from Christ Church Cathedral in suspiciously royalist Oxford have been stuck
back together like a religious history rendered via illuminated crazy paving.
That rule explains why it's easy to
shatter a
glass but hard to put it
back together, and why heat spontaneously flows from hot to cold but not the opposite direction.
Scampering down a
back - alley fire escape, he dodged and vogued, ran like a duck, broke a window and squeezed off a shot, peering through the
shattered glass with a look of pure angst.
He displays his helpless brother Eros for Death's amusement, he transforms her cosmic fortress into a shrine to her worship and he fights the Avengers — turning Wolverine's bones to rubber, suffocating Cyclops in an airtight cube, transporting Drax
back in time into the age of dinosaurs, turning Thor to
glass and
shattering him — to prove his bravery.
While turning a corner [a left] my
back driver's side window
shattered and filled the
back seat with bits of
glass.
These work great when you have a sealed phone, but if you want the user to be able to remove the
back panel quickly and easily, they just don't work:
glass shatters and aluminium bends.
Glass -
backed phones look nice but can
shatter when dropped.
Corning's Gorilla
Glass 2 protects both the front and the
back, but even that tough material can crack or
shatter under the right circumstances.
I had an iPhone 4 with a
glass back that
shattered even though I had it in a relatively bulky protective case.
And a
back - down drop test completely
shattered the rear panel, leaving loose shards of
glass that made the handset difficult to hold.
The Galaxy S6 might have a Gorilla
Glass 4 back panel, but it's still glass, and thus will inevitably shatter with a hefty enough
Glass 4
back panel, but it's still
glass, and thus will inevitably shatter with a hefty enough
glass, and thus will inevitably
shatter with a hefty enough drop.
Moto X4 feels solid and smooth in the hand thanks to its
glass back and metal frame, though all the
glass does feel like a
shatter risk.
There's no
glass back on the Galaxy S8 Active either, so there's less to
shatter back there.
That said, it's better than
shatter - prone
glass on the Nexus 4's
back.
I'm almost convinced it may be time to consider a newer phone, if so I'll buy an LG G4 or G5, swapping batteries is a must and plasic is just fine, no ugly
shattered glass backs for me thank you.
Both phones have slippery
glass backs that slide off desks and threaten to
shatter.
S7 Edge is a bit slippery because of its edge like design and
glass at the
back so you are advised to use a solid
back cover to prevent it from
shattering on fall.
One downside of having a
glass back is the vulnerability to cracks or
shatter when dropped, which makes the plastic - coated aluminum body of the Pixel 2 a much better option for those who tend to be a bit careless with their phones.
While I know they may be slightly impractical —
glass backs are yet another slab of
glass to
shatter in a drop — I really can't deny that the way they feel in the hand and the way
glass reflects light is something else.
Both devices were still functional after the first
back drop test, however the
glass on the
back shattered for the Note 8 and iPhone 8.
The
back drop test, on the other hand, resulted in loose
glass shards after the
back panel
shattered, which made the iPhone x hard to hold.