"We recently did a survey, and it's fairly obvious that everyone drops their phone. We find that the average height is over a meter high," Corning's Senior VP Jim Steiner explained to TechCrunch. "Based on our internal data on drop events, our data shows that Gorilla Glass 5 outperforms 4 by 1.8-times."

On the other hand, the latest version is about on-par with version four in terms of scratch resistance. (Which the company tests by putting the phone in a purse, and then tossing the purse in a tumbler barrel.) The new glass is already commercially available and the company expects it to start showing up on retail devices later this quarter.