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Re:Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming' by sjwright on Monday June 11, 2012 @12:36PM (#4095470)
The iPhone also uses Corning Gorilla Glass.

(Not only has the iPhone always used it, not only was it the first phone to ever use it, Steve Jobs was the one who convinced Corning to invent the stuff, if his biography is to be believed.)

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Re:Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming' by RandallBrown on Monday June 11, 2012 @03:49PM (#4096539)
Gorilla Glass was invented in the 60s, but they had no good use for it. Jobs asked Corning for a better smartphone screen and Corning came back with Gorilla glass.
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Re:Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming' by chris_wot on Monday June 11, 2012 @12:57PM (#4095574)
:-) Yet the Nokia is almost better spec'ed. And the iPhone is superior! Says it all really...
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