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Apple Watch's Sapphire Crystal Display Evaluated With Diamond Tester

I find myself looking forward to posts that AREN'T about the Apple Watch. What is this post showing? That Apple didn't lie when they said the Apple Watch had a sapphire crystal display? Did anyone really think these results would be any different than advertised?

MacRumors needs an article block list feature for hiding articles about certain products or topics one is not interested in.
 
Cuban Missles said:
The Apple Watch was billed as having a Sapphire crystal. Thank you for confirming the obvious -- apple indeed will ship with a sapphire crystal. If you have any more questions, like if there crown really rotates, we have a 15 minute video on a very complete and exhausting scientific battery of test to determine if the crown really rotates or not. Stay tuned.:D
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Followed by a 15 minute exhaustive video of whether the screen is a retina and if the button is actually pushable. XD
 
I don't think his videos should be linked on MacRumors until he bends an Apple Watch Edition
 
...they should be similar enough, can I have a sapphire display swapped onto a sport if something happens and it needs to be replaced?
 
840quadra said:
Could have tested the camera lens as well as TouchID to see if they are also the correct materials as rumored / claimed.
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Was going to say the same thing...

That would have been the test that would have made sense. He was speaking on how special it is due to the shape and all. Now I'm really curious if the Touch ID/camera lens have different numbers on that tester, ~4 compared to an 8 that he mentioned for the watch. Guess we will never know the important aspects, only if it will blend or boil.......
 
In Other News

And in the real world, OS X.10 continues to be a bug-ridden, half-assed mess of an OS.
 
Why are so many people determined to burn, blow up, bend, crack, scratch and take apart new gadgets?
 
gsmornot said:
...they should be similar enough, can I have a sapphire display swapped onto a sport if something happens and it needs to be replaced?
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This is the best question I have seen in a long time. I would also like to know the answer.
 
So he was expecting apple to have committed some kind of fraud and the screen to just be glass?
 
lol

"Hey buddy, your device is faulty.."

I don't believe any of it... and even if its true, why would i care ?

Apple could have used sandpaper with dials on and i would still buy it :)
 
icrude said:
6 minute video to say yes.
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This. I hate the current trend of creating a video for things that could be explained in a simple paragraph. I appreciate generating ad revenue but if I see a YouTube video embedded I rarely click on it to save having to go through all the guff of being thanked for joining them today and then subjected to an overly tedious explanation.
 
Oookaay

So a 6 1/2 minute video to tell us that Apple didn't just jip millions of people. Because no one would ever find out.
 
At least no Apple Watch came to any harm in this video, but still a complete waste of time in stating something we already knew. Nice one Captain Obvious. Now what's this about the iPhone screen being glass!!:rolleyes:
 
Sooo Embarrassing.

The device he is using is a glorified Resistance measuring device.

He is measure the resistance of :
+) the Face of the watch
+) The Metal (or other) back.
+) Any additional coatings (on back)

He should have Touched the Face of the Watches while doing this test.

The results are not worth the 'bits' they were stored in.

How embarrassing.

AJ
 
Why would a company with the reputation that Apple has, risk claiming they were using sapphire and get over using something else? Seems like a pointless video designed to get him views on youtube from people hoping Apple has been caught lying.

Rafterman said:
Why are so many people determined to burn, blow up, bend, crack, scratch and take apart new gadgets?
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Same reason the guy made the video in this post. YouTube views which lead to subscribers and more money for them. It's no problem wasting a few hundred or even a thousand dollars if you know the video is going to make you more money than that. YouTube is turning more and more into a money hungry business and less about the actual quality of the videos. Can make an interesting quality video and get 2,000 views or make a video setting a just released iPhone on fire and get 2 million views.
 
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MacRumors said:
tests the stainless steel Apple Watch with a basic diamond tester to determine if it actually has a sapphire crystal display like many regular mechanical watches.
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huh? I could have told you that....it's right there in the product specs :rolleyes:
 
atlatnesiti said:
How about you perform these tests..?
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I'm sure the rather obvious answer to that question, will occur to you in 3...2...1...

tarkeybear said:
You can slide the phone quickly from one wrist to another and it will read pulses (and presumably allow for Apple Pay). This has to be done quickly, wrist to wrist.

If you remove the watch from the wrist, it quickly detects the removal (might be a light sensor) and immediately goes to secure mode, requiring your passcode if you want to do anything else but read the time.
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Thank you very much for your response.

While millions of us wait for our watch to arrive, it's nice to read about people testing them, instead of destroying them :)
 
Tycho24 said:
Actually... (free maths lesson):
Tissot =/= Apple Watch.

They are about as similar as a Porsche and a Peterbilt....
To continue with that metaphor- while you may not want to take a girl out on a date in a Peterbilt... you may not want to try to ship 1,000 Christmas trees cross country in a Porsche either.
Due to the dissimilar use cases it would be idiotic to ascribe a "better" moniker to either.
And so it is with Tissot & Apple Watch.
One will look better & last decades, the other will track your health & make your life easier. There is not a clear comparison to draw.
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I beg to differ on your "look better" comment regarding that Tissot. I don't think it could look any more generic if it tried. If I saw someone wearing it I wouldn't look twice. I hope it doesn't cost much. zzzzzzz And I predict dumb watches will go the way of regular phones and crt tvs. Soon after new versions of an item become something that is multifunctional, the single function version just becomes a quaint item from the past that kids make fun of for being old-fashioned. "Dad, what's that dusty thing in your underwear drawer?" "That's the watch I used to wear" "Oh, how do you get messages on it?" "You don't, it's just to tell time." "Huh? That's dumb." end story. But, hey, you can crack it open and use the gears on a steampunk costume!
 
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Wait, what? Nearly everything about this video is wrong (except the conclusion that it's sapphire, which we already knew since it's unlikely Apple would engage in false advertising).

This device tests thermal conductivity, not electrical conductivity. The electrical conductivity of sapphire and diamond is nearly as undetectable as that of glass by any consumer device, but the thermal conductivity of crystalline sapphire and diamond is orders of magnitude higher than that glass, which is why this device registers any difference. His conclusion is probably right, but never trust somebody who doesn't know how their tools work.
 
Uggggh!

This guy here...wow!

If your'e going to make a video, because you have to sustain your channel views, and make it 6 minutes long....please at least give the viewers some interesting information. And if you can't do that, please at least understand some science behind how the fancy tools you are using work, else you are spreading incorrect information and looking like a fool to those that do know about such things.

I guess this video was needed to verify Apple's Sapphire claim, since he got famous by catching Apple where they had lied that the iPhone 6+ was impossible to bend.

Next week he'll prove to us that the Apple Watch is no good for deep sea shipwreck diving. :rolleyes:
 
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