Amid Sapphire iPhone 6 Rumors, Kyocera Announces Plans for New Smartphone With Sapphire Display

[Mr. Amiga500]

Apple’s keyboards have the best key feel I’ve ever typed on, though some modern PC laptops are getting really close.

Really? The best keyboard I've ever typed on is this 1977 IBM beam spring keyboard:

I connect it to my MacBook Pro. I also occasionally connect a 1984 IBM Model F or even a 1987 Apple M0116. They all blow away the crappy built in MacBook Pro rubber dome keyboard.

You really need to try some mechanical keyboards.

 

[cocky jeremy]

It doesn't exist outside of Apple so how can it be copied?

Because it exists at Apple?

 

[daveathall]

Because it exists at Apple?

Link?

 

[Aluminum213]

For a completly useless comment like yours:

If you offer nothing but brain dead comments, don't post and spam the forum

 

[GeneralChang]

Really? The best keyboard I've ever typed on is this 1977 IBM beam spring keyboard:

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I connect it to my MacBook Pro. I also occasionally connect a 1984 IBM Model F or even a 1987 Apple M0116. They all blow away the crappy built in MacBook Pro rubber dome keyboard.

You really need to try some mechanical keyboards.

My friend, I lived through the 80’s and 90’s. I am no stranger to mechanical keyboards. But I said goodbye to stiff, noisy, unpredictable key presses with my MacBook Pro, and I have never looked back.

To each his own.

 

[apolloa]

You're kidding right? What sapphire watch has sold in the millions at an affordable price? Not to mention a smartphone display is much larger than a watch.

What does the size of the glass have to do with this? The argument was made that this is the first time sapphire glass has been mass produced, and that's BS. It has been used in various watch makes for years and is definitely mass produced. And how many iPhone 6 have been sold then? Oh yeah ZERO! And it's funny how you seem to think it's 'affordable' when it costs as much as a Switch watch, actually the iPhone 5S 16GB costs well over the price of my Tissot, which by the way has Sapphire Crystal touch screen glass because it's a T Touch model, oh yeah, the T Touch Tissot with touch screen Sapphire Crystal glass that was first introduced in 1998 1999, a few years ago.

Yeah, the Vertu *starts* at $9600, and goes up to around $20k. The Tagheuer isn't available yet, so no pricing, but is not a smartphone, not a touch screen device, and has a low-res 2.5" display. It's not even clear that the screen is sapphire, the entire front face appears to be a multi-piece sapphire assembly with ruby inlaid keys. It's an EXTREME luxury phone, and they're only planning to make 1,911 of them!

You're not making remotely similar comparisons to an iPhone 6.

Perhaps you should READ the description of the phones specs on the Tag Heuer website before commenting?

Sapphire crystal is treasured for its exceptional hardness, light transmission and stability in extreme thermodynamic conditions. The 2nd generation of MERIDIIST extends the sapphire crystal display screen to the keypad base, entailing intensive engagement and more complex hand-assemblage workmanship; the brilliance, colour and form of the sapphire crystal must be monitored with rigour for overall homogeneity. A total of 103 carats of unscratchable sapphire crystal unify the overall aesthetic of the 2nd generation of MERIDIIST.The Elegance Collection is composed with five models including three elegant models with rubber or alligator and satin or polished stainless steel. The two others are elegantly mixing gold and stainless steel with polished chamfers.

As for availability, yeap I'll give you that I cannot find it available to buy yet. Also I added it as it was claimed the iPhone 6 will be the FIRST phone with a sapphire crystal display, and that is pure BS. The Vertu proves it will NOT be the first touchscreen smartphone with a sapphire screen. FACT.

First on the phone aimed to non millionaires! Now is that clear enough for you?

That is, but that should ALSO be added to the bs statements on this site proclaiming the iPhone 6 is the worlds first Sapphire Crystal screen phone when it is very obviously and clearly not.

What is this? 2005?

What the hell are you talking about?

 

[cocky jeremy]

Link?

Maybe to a site that shows a gigantic %$#^& sapphire plant Apple made?

 

[Tanegashima]

If you offer nothing but brain dead comments, don't post and spam the forum

This is a forum, no Google.

If you don't know what sapphire glass is, google it, search wikipedia, read books, etc...

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Really? The best keyboard I've ever typed on is this 1977 IBM beam spring keyboard:

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I connect it to my MacBook Pro. I also occasionally connect a 1984 IBM Model F or even a 1987 Apple M0116. They all blow away the crappy built in MacBook Pro rubber dome keyboard.

You really need to try some mechanical keyboards.

Yeah? Really?

Because the MacBook Pro has a scissor-type keyboard, not a crap rubber dome.

And, it's a laptop, so using those mechanisms is out of question because of height.

 

[daveathall]

Maybe to a site that shows a gigantic %$#^& sapphire plant Apple made?

No, a simple thing like a link to where Apple have announced that they are making a sapphire crystal for the next iPhone. Let me help you. You can't. You may want to get some credibility because at the moment, you have none. Show the link, or on your reply admit that you can't.

You claimed it exists at Apple, rather a bold claim so prove it.

 

[cocky jeremy]

No, a simple thing like a link to where Apple have announced that they are making a sapphire crystal for the next iPhone. Let me help you. You can't. You may want to get some credibility because at the moment, you have none. Show the link, or on your reply admit that you can't.

You claimed it exists at Apple, rather a bold claim so prove it.

So nothing exists without links to it? Gotcha.

 

[daveathall]

So nothing exists without links to it? Gotcha.

So you still can't provide any proof? Gotcha.

 

[Michael Goff]

If the iPhone 6 doesn't use sapphire, will all of those "they copied Apple before Apple even did anything" people admit they were wrong?

 

[cocky jeremy]

So you still can't provide any proof? Gotcha.

What exactly do you think Apple invested millions into sapphire for? The hell of it? For fun?

 

[daveathall]

What exactly do you think Apple invested millions into sapphire for? The hell of it? For fun?

You made a bold claim that Apple would be producing the iPhone 6 with a sapphire display. Prove it. Who are you that you have this privileged information? Prove your claim or shut it. You think you are clever? You know absolutely nothing about Apples intentions. If you do then prove it. But you can't can you?

You don't know anything about Apples intentions.

Im finished with you, you can't answer a simple question.

 

[Michael Goff]

What exactly do you think Apple invested millions into sapphire for? The hell of it? For fun?

Just because they're going to use sapphire in something doesn't mean iPhones. They could have invested to get enough for whatever wearable they're making. Or they could be thinking about moving MacBook screens to it for all we know. It's possible that they're going to use it for iPhones.

 

[cocky jeremy]

You made a bold claim that Apple would be producing the iPhone 6 with a sapphire display. Prove it. Who are you that you have this privileged information? Prove your claim or shut it. You think you are clever? You know absolutely nothing about Apples intentions. If you do then prove it. But you can't can you?

You don't know anything about Apples intentions.

Im finished with you, you can't answer a simple question.

I never said iPhone 6. Not once. I said they will use it on phones and that another company is trying to copy it because Apple is going to do it. Nice just making things up though.

 

[daveathall]

I never said iPhone 6. Not once. I said they will use it on phones and that another company is trying to copy it because Apple is going to do it. Nice just making things up though.

Read the title of the thread, you were directly responding to a topic about the iPhone 6 rumours, yeh, go back and have a look, it says it in the title, or did you forget? Are you saying that you were responding to a thread about the iPhone 6 and talking about something else, is that what you are really saying?

But for the sake of argument I will admit that you never used the words iPhone 6, there, satisfied? Now answer my question like I have just answered yours or admit that you can't.

Show a quote from Apple, a release, anything, just anything to prove your point.

You can't copy something if it hasn't been seen or even produced, is that too hard for you to understand.

All through this exchange you have not given any proof, a link, photo, video, press release, presentation, quote from Apple, prototype, review, etc etc. Because you can't. Period.

 

[polpo]

Well, it does make sense that Kyocera is making this. They have a long history of ceramic and glass manufacture (their name is short for Kyoto Ceramic Company) so they probably have the materials science chops to actually pull something like this off.

 

[LordVic]

Maybe to a site that shows a gigantic %$#^& sapphire plant Apple made?

Apple did not make a giant sapphire production plant

it is mostly speculated that they invested money to the company that makes sapphire in order to drastically expand production in order to accommodate the supposed increased demand for sapphire.

Apple doesn't own the factory. Apple has no exclusive rights to use sapphire. In fact, there has been absolutely no proof from either company (Manufacturers of sapphire, or Apple) that sapphire will be used for the display of the iPhone 6.

what we can assume safely from history: Sapphire will be used for the camera lense and TouchID.

what we can guess from actions already documented: Sapphire will be used more extensively in Apples future product roadmap.

that is it

 

[shareef777]

Uuuummm you do realize the same factory that makes Apple's phones also makes other devices right ?

You do realize that thousands of people are involved with the production of the iPhone right ? Months and months before it comes out, right ?

And you also realize that information leaks and parts leak, right ?

It's really annoying that people think something "doesn't exist" because it hasn't been announced . Please .

You do know what a rumor is? No one is arguing that APPLE has the iPhone 6, but any spec released is just a "rumor" and so accusing any company of copying something that's "rumored" to be in the iPhone 6 is what's annoying.

 

[IGregory]

If they manage to integrate the technology and have reasonable yield rates, why the hell not?

It only pushes Apple more to do more. You too in the end will profit.

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