Expert Believes Alleged iPhone 6 Sapphire Front Panel Could Be 'Legitimate'

[NY Guitarist]

I'm already into iPhone6 rumor burnout.

 

[thasan]

Almost everyone carries sand and paper in their pockets. Most scratches on GG come, not from keys and metal, but the hard quartz of tine dust and dirt particles in their pockets.

Now that you have learned something new today, you can again shut off your brain:-D

sandpapers are NOT sand and paper. please reboot. u r running windows

 

[bwillwall]

I hope Samsung is shaking in their boots.

 

[Cyborg21]

So sapphire crystal display is flexible, incredibly scratch resistant, shatter resistant, it's not blurry and it's very thin. Wow, it seems like an a lot better material.

 

[Stephen123]

How do we know it's sapphire? Because the rumors say so?

We know it is Sapphire because the knife and the screw leave no marks in the test videos.

 

[Tough Guy]

No mention of the insanely thin bezels?

 

[sebastian...]

We know it is Sapphire because the knife and the screw leave no marks in the test videos.

There are a lot of youtube video with the same treatment on gorilla glass. Here is an abused gg screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvRLhVBC87c
knife, nails, and all kind of metals can't scratch it

So again. How do we know that glass is sapphire ?

 

[taelan28]

This sapphire crystal thing has to be half a marketing ploy. Only Apple could get away with such a costly component and have it be a profitable splash. Ironically I also would believe apple would have been the first to quash such a pricey component and an OEM would pick it up as a gimmick.

I've read the statement by Corning and it wasn't just corporate hot air which I've read over the years. It was straight up "this stuff is better in a couple ways but is 10 times more costly to manufacture and requires 3 times the energy" or something like that. Corning flipped it around and asked if a product came out that was 10 times cheaper, needed a third the energy but wasn't quite as strong then we'd be in trouble, well we're already here and its Sapphire that's in trouble." I'm paraphrasing and those numbers are likely wrong, but its convinced me, sapphire is overrated.

 

[MrX8503]

This sapphire crystal thing has to be half a marketing ploy. Only Apple could get away with such a costly component and have it be a profitable splash.

So it's a marketing ploy because Apple is able to bring a costly component to the masses? Most people would call that innovation, not marketing.

I've read the statement by Corning and it wasn't just corporate hot air which I've read over the years. It was straight up "this stuff is better in a couple ways but is 10 times more costly to manufacture and requires 3 times the energy" or something like that. Corning flipped it around and asked if a product came out that was 10 times cheaper, needed a third the energy but wasn't quite as strong then we'd be in trouble, well we're already here and its Sapphire that's in trouble." I'm paraphrasing and those numbers are likely wrong, but its convinced me, sapphire is overrated.

Corning has no earthly idea how much sapphire is costing Apple. The figure "10 times" more expensive is based on today's cost and manufacturing of sapphire. The statement by Corning is exactly just that, hot air.

 

[Tumbleweed666]

This sapphire crystal thing has to be half a marketing ploy. Only Apple could get away with such a costly component and have it be a profitable splash. Ironically I also would believe apple would have been the first to quash such a pricey component and an OEM would pick it up as a gimmick.

So if half a BILLION dollars is "half a marketing ploy", they could probably have had some pretty neat ads done for quarter of a billion dollars dont ya think? And what do you think the other quarter of a billion is for?

 

[ksuyen]

This sapphire crystal thing has to be half a marketing ploy. Only Apple could get away with such a costly component and have it be a profitable splash. Ironically I also would believe apple would have been the first to quash such a pricey component and an OEM would pick it up as a gimmick.

I've read the statement by Corning and it wasn't just corporate hot air which I've read over the years. It was straight up "this stuff is better in a couple ways but is 10 times more costly to manufacture and requires 3 times the energy" or something like that. Corning flipped it around and asked if a product came out that was 10 times cheaper, needed a third the energy but wasn't quite as strong then we'd be in trouble, well we're already here and its Sapphire that's in trouble." I'm paraphrasing and those numbers are likely wrong, but its convinced me, sapphire is overrated.

Um no. Get schooled by some info before this nonsense.

 

[taelan28]

Um no. Get schooled by some info before this nonsense.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/sapphire-vs-gorilla-glass/#!beJN5B

 

[flatfoot99]

http://www.bidnessetc.com/22831-sapphire-supply-troubles-put-apple-gtat-in-a-tight-corner/

article suggest not enough Sapphire may be produced for all models. Only enough for 128gb.

Also just saw a tweet from the kid who did the original video. Says "New video coming... Friday. The hype is real."

 

[lazyrighteye]

Yes, because holding your watch to your ear for phone calls is not looking stupid at all.

Do you hold you watch up to your eyes to read the time?
There's this amazing invention called "speaker phone." Google it.

 

[zipa]

There's this amazing invention called "speaker phone." Google it.

Now that's handy, if you want everyone within 50 feet or so listening in to your conversation and/or annoying the crap out of them with your piss-poor manners.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Now that's handy, if you want everyone within 50 feet or so listening in to your conversation and/or annoying the crap out of them with your piss-poor manners.

Touché.

As one who rarely talks on a phone, and definitely not in a public setting, I missed that consideration in my retort. Alas...