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4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Front Panel Subjected to More Rigorous Scratch Tests, May Not Be Sapphire
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Would you rather have imitation cheese or 100% real cheese? Or beef patties made with animal organs or 100% beef?
This stuff is not true sapphire. It's a cheap imitation that is better than the current iPhone display but not as good as true sapphire. It's a hybrid glass.
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Sanding your iPhone is a bad idea.....
Great video with some good science basics though.
Sanding your iPhone is a bad idea.....
Great video with some good science basics though.
This whole thread is rediculous speculation with almost zero science. Even a univ chem lab could just run the stuff through a mass spectrometer, even just one of the remaining fragments, and we would know what's in there. My guess is that the panel came from a goo phone, as have many of these "leaks."
4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Front Panel Subjected to More Rigorous Scratch Tests, May N...
Seriously? Wow. Lol. If you've got a bone to pick, msg Marques directly.
Seriously? Wow. Lol. If you've got a bone to pick, msg Marques directly.
Does everyone hate screen protectors?
I don't see what the big deal is. I don't care if it's sapphire,diamond or gorilla glass or regular glass. I'll put a tempered glass screen protector on it no matter what material it's made of. With a tempered glass screen protector I can't even tell its on my 5s. I've used a power support screen protector on every iPhone since ( I hate zagg screen protectors though) the 1st iPhone. This year I've switched to the tempered glass and I'm never switching to anything els. With the iPhone 6 I'll simply use another tempered glass one once they're made, regardless of what the screen is made of.
I don't see what the big deal is. I don't care if it's sapphire,diamond or gorilla glass or regular glass. I'll put a tempered glass screen protector on it no matter what material it's made of. With a tempered glass screen protector I can't even tell its on my 5s. I've used a power support screen protector on every iPhone since ( I hate zagg screen protectors though) the 1st iPhone. This year I've switched to the tempered glass and I'm never switching to anything els. With the iPhone 6 I'll simply use another tempered glass one once they're made, regardless of what the screen is made of.
If I had to guess, & bear in mind this is a complete guess, it might be manufactured this way in order to increase flexibility (reducing brittleness= decreasing the chance of a shattered screen when dropped), while increasing scratch resistance with sapphire's properties. I could be totally wrong though...
So let me get this straight.
- Apple wants to use sapphire, but it's too expensive and limited in supply.
- Apple co-builds sapphire factory to cut costs and increase supply.
- Apple can't use sapphire in next phone because it's too expensive and limited in supply.
Is it just me, or are analysts useless?
I seriously doubt AAPL is going to put sapphire on the new iphone. I think whatever partnerships they made were to produce sapphire for their watches.
Thats kind of what I was thinking... I dont know jack about this stuff, but maybe pure sapphire doesnt make a great screen. They may have went with a best of both worlds material.
Let just face it guys and understand that Apple is very good at marketing and getting their customers to believe anything they want us to believe in. From what I understand the harder the glass the less flexable and easier it is to crack. So I'm guessing that why the new iPhones will not be 100 sapphire .
No, a softer object does not scratch a harder object. The grain size in sandpaper does not get reduced by use on wood. The grains get dislodged from the matrix holding them. The mineral grains could polish down wood for thousands of years if held properly, until the trace harder elements in the wood eventually have some impact.
Measuring index of refraction is a good high school physics project if the you are measuring in immersion. For a single interface it makes a great experiment. The problem is when you have two identical, planar interfaces with a small separation. No high school that I know if in the country has the tools to solve this.
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Actually, this is true. Any engineering university could tell you within hours what constituents are in this, if not the specific makeup. The same with other labs I've mentioned in the past. The opportunity cost spent in debating this could have paid for a clear answer 5 times over.
Almost all phone screen scratches are caused by sand/dust/dirt in a pocket or bag etc.
...or the devices will no longer need Digitizer and/or LCD replacement due to drops, damage (probably liquid contact and maybe submersion at some near point as recently seen by other MFG's).
Been on both sides of the court as someone working in the retail/repair industry for both the big guy and independently owned locations, a town district-wide Mac admin, and as an everyday consumer. These things are basically Tonka trucks for adults. Beat them to hell but the still work like the day you bought it.
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but can't there be situations where it could hurt them? For example, in this instance what if sapphire was never even considered to begin with (as if the whole sapphire idea was to throw the followers off completely)? Or is that taking it too far? How would apple "leak" something to this guy specifically? Did they manage to salt a wholesaler they know he would buy it from?
Here's Jony Ive's face after he reads all these rumors about what Apple may or may not be doing:
Win. Thank you for that!
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Different strokes...Just like any display I own (my TV for example) I would much rather have a nasty scrape across the back of it than the front of it given a choice. With how things may or may not go, it may not even matter at some point on either side.
So the glass is key and coin scratch proof. Nice. The back probably will not be. So we all still need our phone cases.
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Beef offal is still beef. And it can taste very nice if done well. It's all from the same animal.
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So the rumours can do what no other person or thing in the world can, make Jon Ive smile? That really is amazing.Here's Jony Ive's face after he reads all these rumors about what Apple may or may not be doing:
My iPhone 5 was badly scratched by my pocket camera; was foolish to put them in same pocket. Camera is anodized aluminum; i.e. aluminum oxide on the surface, same material as sapphire crystal. Beware, do not put any anodized aluminum (like another iphone) in same pocket as your iPhone.
It's nowhere near that high. I was partner for a while (the channel is closed but it was a blog channel) and got something like 15,000-50,000 views per day. At most I think I saw like $2-3 for the given day.
Unless of course you are claiming that "anti apple propaganda" is paid better by google, in which case I have no evidence to refute that statement other than finding it highly suspect.
Trying has nothing much to do with it, really. It's using a material that is harder than the material you are scratching which matters.
The point if this test was to rule out pure sapphire. It seemed to be successful with that. There were never claims that the sandpaper were real world conditions or that because sandpaper scratches the screen it is somehow not a good product. Simply put a basic test was conducted that concluded this isn't a pure sapphire display.