Gorilla Glass is worthless

My Lumia 920 is a month old. It fell out of my coat pocket just 2 feet off the ground and shattered the glass. I had a Samsung Captivate with Gorilla Glass for two years. It probably fell to the ground 30 times and never even scratched. I saw the videos online of the guy running over the 920 with his car, batting it with a 2x4, dropping it multiple times from various heights, and even bashing it with a hammer. I think mine was defective. AT&T and Nokia say - too bad so sad. Got quotes of $130 - $300 to repair. I will try the $130 first.

I had my Nokia 928 less than a month after switching from a HTC phone, and it slipped from my hand and hit the ground on the bottom right hand corner. The screen immediately cracked halfway up the display and a piece of the screen was lost. I was understandably dismayed that the "unbreakable" gorilla glass had shattered so easily after my HTC withstood 10 times more impact than that during the 2 years that I used it. The screen still worked, so I continued to use it while I decided whether or not it was worth paying $100 in addition to the monthly insuance fee to replace it. I literally sat it down on my desk at work, and the screen cracked all the way up. I might mention that the actual casing of the phone never sustained a scratch, crack, or damage of any kind. Only the gorllia glass. What does that tell you??
I am sure that I will NEVER buy a Nokia again, and I will not replace my Nokia, but instead go back to my HTC that worked flawlessly for two years. Never again.

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Gorilla Glass in Lumia 720 but not in 820 - how po...

Nokia, how it is possible you used Gorilla Glass in Lumia 720, but higher model - Lumia 820 does not have it???
Is this joke???
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Maybe check first what is under "Contact Us" link on Nokia support site????
1. Facebook link - I do not use
2. Twitter link - I do not use
3. Link to this forum. So I came here directly from nokia support link on Nokia.com under support for lumia 820
Did YOU read guidelines from link you posted??? I see not!
So couple of quotes:
"Here you can discuss Nokia products and Ovi services" - I wanted to discuss product, so this is correct forum!!! Was I expecting my screen will be replaced for gorilla??? No! Just wanted to discuss!!!
For sure you did not see this point:
"4. Show respect. Please ensure that all of your posts contribute to the supportive atmosphere of the board. "Flaming" or disrespecting other board users is not allowed. For more specific information on what Nokia considers disrespectful or inappropriate, see below. "
You wrote @simply because the 820 is not associated with a 'gorilla' does not make it inferior to lower models@ - IT DOES. Gorilla is known as scratch resistant, tough glass. This place these screens much higher than others.
Now, show me any OFFICIAL nokia statement that glass used in Lumia 820 is scratch resistant or is anyhow more resistant for damages than any other glass??? Somehow I cannot find official statement. So all other statements are rumours only.
This is link to official Lumia 820 spec:
http://www.nokia.com/ie-en/products/phone/lumia820/specifications/
, somehow I do not see any statement that screen has improved resistance.
"The forum team includes technical experts from Nokia, who monitor their respective areas on the forum. Their main task is to make sure that the right people at Nokia know what is discussed here, but they may also participate in the discussions and publish information from Nokia about the issues discussed here. They are labelled as "Technical Experts" and bear a Nokia logo."
So not only user-to-user but also user-to-nokia experts that are able to place official statements and explanations!!!
You should watch your mouth before placing these kind of statements @another whiner. having limited knowledge can be a bad thing. having no knowledge at all can be embarrassing.@.
Pretending you are smart doesn't make you smart at all. It is only your imagination.

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Nope, not on mine. I got a few scratches on the display of E7, which I didn't know where come from. Could be grains of sand in my pocket or something like that.
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Gorilla glass is breakable -- ploy to switch to Edge?

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Well I come home and opened my door on Friday night and my 820 Lumia drop from about knee height, put it on charger when got inside next morning went to get phone not working I found it had cracked Screen. Ok was the drop last night. So here I am with a $658 product from Nokia that's been made with little thought for the consumer. A phone that cracks the glass from a minor drop. The glass goes right to the edge of the phone, the phone is as heavy as a house brick.
I have taken it to be repaired it will be ready in 3 days at a grand cost of $180.00... I need my phone going thats why I brought it. Nokia Don't Care is a good Slogan, I took the phone back to Harvey Norman they didn't care, just advised me take it to a phone repairer in Penrith to get it fixed faster. Let's see what happens.
I will send Nokia a Bill for the repair because of the way they have designed this machine it is not fair to the consumer to have to have a weak machine like this. And I wished it would have happened within 21 Days I would have took it back to Harvey Norman, under consumer law you can not sell defected machines like this to people. Glass screens breaking so easly is not accpetable. It's daylight robbery, there working like crooks. I am in the right mind to take it all back to Harvey Norman and let them have the Phone and Optus Account as I only had it three months.
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Hai,
I've been going through specs on several sites and cannot confirm if the Lumia 800 which technically uses same body as the N9 has the shiny Gorilla Glass?
No NFC, uSD, Front Facing Camera (or 3G video calling to say), HDMI, USB on the go like the N8 (my current phone) are still ok not a huge deal breaker imo as the Lumia 800 still looks awesome and has WP7 which I have been waiting for a proper hardware manufacturer to make one so far to actually get one.
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My apologies if I'm ranting (and I think I may be) - I'm just passionate about Nokia's product offering and find it extremely frustrating that such a large and experienced company keeps making the same mistakes over and over again (alienating their long-term supporters in the process). Grow up, you've been in the business a while now!

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Thank you. I will have to sell it on Ebay and hopefully get some money for it I'm so sad about it. I hate losing money like that.
It actually seemed fine in the fist 2 weeks, but this image retention problem seems to have got worse and worse in time. I can now barely do anything for more than a couple of minutes and it's burnt in. And I can see it now if I play a movie. Luckily it goes after a few minutes more.
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