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OPPO flagship will be first to ship with Gorilla Glass 6, likely the OPPO F9
July 12, 2025
Corning, Inc. – maker of the popular Corning Gorilla Glass series – said ina press release todaythat the first device to market with the latestGorilla Glass 6will be an unnamedOppoflagship smartphone.
The next big smartphone release from OPPO is almost certainly theOPPO F9, which makes it the most likely contender for the Gorilla Glass launch.
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According to Corning, the unnamed flagship from OPPO will land “in the coming weeks,” so whatever it is we won’t have to wait too long to find out.
Gorilla Glass 6is the company’s most durable cover glass to date and can survive an average of 15 drops from one meter onto rough surfaces. According to Corning, consumers drop their smartphones seven times per year, on average. Theoretically then, Gorilla Glass 6 could survive over two years-worth of drops.
Other OPPO flagships like theOPPO Find Xand theOPPO R15useGorilla Glass 5, so the company seems to be a natural fit for the launch of the new iteration of glass.
The OPPO F9 is the follow-up to theOPPO F7which launched exclusively in India earlier this year (there is no OPPO F8). OPPO has been teasing the F9 launch onits Twitter accountover the past few days, focusing mainly on (what else?) its display.
According to the tweeted images, the OPPO F9 will feature a very small notch that looks remarkably similar to the notch on theEssential Phone, which was the first phone to market with the controversial design element.
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