Best way to protect iPhone 6? Use tempered glass

The iPhones are considered to be the most beautiful and well-designed phones on the planet. For many iPhone users, however, there is another side to it. This beauty comes at a price, especially with the new iPhone 6, which has a screen that subtly tapers from the sides. The iPhones, and in particularly the latest ones, are VERY fragile.

The iPhone 6, unlike many Android and Windows Phones, doesn't have a protective cover glass like Corning's Gorilla Glass. If reports are to be believed Apple wanted to have a sapphire glass layer on the iPhone, but that never happened. Instead, Apple ended up offering something it calls 'ion reinforced' glass.
Now, this may sound like a snazzy term, but for users it is not of much use. Time and again we have seen phones with Gorilla Glass survive a drop the iPhone 6 could not. As we found earlier, a little fall and you end up with an iPhone 6 that has a broken or cracked screen.
Solution? Use a tempered glass cover.

What is tempered glass cover? Instead of a standard plastic scratch guard, you get a thin layer of glass that is installed on your screen. This ensures if you drop the phone, then the tempered glass breaks before your screen, which costs a bomb. In fact, Apple doesn't replace the screen anymore. Instead, it charges in excess of Rs.20,000 to replace your damaged phone with the new one.

Also because the iPhone 6 has a tapered screen, a tempered glass doesn't protect its edges. For that you need a case which is slightly elevated from the display and is not flush with it.

If you install both these accessories, your iPhone will be pretty secure. No, it won't survive if you throw it under a bus or drop it from the 5th floor of your building. But if you accidentally bump it off your office table, most likely it will not have a broken screen.

Electric Smartscooter Arrives In Taiwan

Gogoro is preparing to launch its electric Smartscooter in Taiwan this summer, coming to Taipei City and Greater Taipei City first with an expansion to more cities in the near future.

 

 

The Smartscooter features a whole new system for charging. Customers subscribe to an electric battery supply dotted throughout the city, once the battery runs dry the driver replaces it with a new one and keeps on rolling.

This brings into question range anxiety but given Taiwan is a small region and it is only offering it in Taipei City, it is clear Gogoro doesn’t want drivers taking long trips on the Smartscooter.

It is also clear this is for urban drivers that spend a lot of time on the road and can easily find the allotted places where batteries are stored. Panasonic will be supplying two of the battery packs, which fit underneath the seat for easy accessibility.

Gogoro has already launched a beta program with 100 testers in Taipei City, to see if any changes need to be made to the Smartscooter or the placement of the battery stations.

The team working on the Smartscooter is a collection of ex-HTC employees and other faces from technology and car backgrounds. Gogoro has been hiring some battery talent to make its Smartscooter last longer, but has not given a firm range for the scooter.

Gogoro will be showing off the scooter in Taipei over the next few weeks before the summer launch. It will teach customers all of the small details in the scooter, in order to prepare them for a different sort of driving experience.

There’s no word on price, although Gogoro claims it will remain competitive with gasoline scooters.