Why use tempered glass on a mobile phone?

For its clarity and strength, tempered glass is the choice material for timeless style

When visitors at the Grand Canyon Skywalk step out over the canyon rim, the only thing between them and bottom of the canyon 4,000 feet below is four inches of tempered glass. It was used for a reason, and the reason is that it’s the toughest glass around.

Once thought of as material used to fulfill building code safety requirements and auto industry crash test experiments, tempered glass is playing a larger role in everyday life for its incredible strength, durability and sleek transparency.

A typical household has more items made of tempered glass than one might think. In the kitchen, coffee carafes and glassware baking dishes are made of tempered glass because of its durable properties. In the living room, you’ll find tempered glass used on the television LCD screen and it is the main material for aquariums. You will also find it as the key material for the fireplace cover and the room’s skylight.

In the garage, tempered glass is found in the car windows where it has been used for years as the benchmark material for automobile safety. In the home office, one might work at a desktop made of tempered glass, and on the desk is a pair of fashionable eyeglasses and a luxury brand watch, both of which, use tempered glass for its scratch resistant qualities.

Recently tempered glass has been adopted for use in handsets which keeps the exterior always looking new and stylish thanks to its sleek and scratch resistant qualities.

Keen to consumer needs and desires, who want a look of timeless elegance for their  handset, LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, introduced its Secret an element of timelessness with its third handset of the successful Black Label Series, the LG Secret.

The tempered glass on the front panel of LG Secret is composed through chemical strengthening and is by far the strongest type of glass available to be implemented on mobile phones today.

"When we were designing the LG Secret our goal was to create a phone that never goes out of style, and things quickly go out of style when they start looking old. Everyone has seen scratched-up, paint-worn phones before and they get that way from heavy use. We wanted a handset that would always look new and tempered glass is the main material that achieves that goal." said Jon Santico, mobile division head of LG Electronics.

The strong and scratch resistant glass of LG Secret completes the luxurious exterior by keeping the whole body of the handset seek and also allows style-conscious consumers to be worry-free about making scratches on the screen. Also, the scratch-resistant tempered glass on the wide LCD screen provides totally clear multimedia experience.