This is Why Apple Wants the iPhone to Have a Sapphire Glass Covered Display [Video]

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Posted February 5, 2014 at 7:55pm by Shalom Levytam

Check out this video that shows why Apple wants the iPhone to have a sapphire glass covered display.

Aero-Gear makes a Sapphire Crystal Screen Protector. In the video below you can see how it holds up to a brick of concrete.

Recently it's been reported that an iPhone with a sapphire front display glass is in trial production. Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn is rumored to have successfully assembled at least 100 units with sapphire as glass display.

Take a look at the video below!

[via 9to5Mac]

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Anton - February 6, 2014 at 8:41am

Very bad times for Display Protection manufacturers!

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gamerscul9870 - February 6, 2014 at 11:59am

Why??

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gamerscul9870 - February 6, 2014 at 2:35am

You smashed your mouth with that block. It's just glass.

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Dommm - February 5, 2014 at 9:49pm

Why don't they compete it to the normal glass on a iPhone

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Dommm - February 5, 2014 at 9:50pm

Compare

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Vueapp - February 6, 2014 at 1:22am

Exactly. Can't test something without a comparison. How does gorilla glass hold up in the same test. The concrete weight isn't completely on the screen. Actually I'd rather have a shatter resistant glass. Everybody and there moms have a screen cover for scratches. My gorilla glass never touches anything but the sticky end of a screen cover. They even come in glass now.

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iClarified - February 5, 2014 at 8:37pm

Fake shit. Why the fck his hand in front who know's ... if they spend make one sapphire glass for this phone why they can't spend money on 1080p with good professional studio?

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Ken - February 5, 2014 at 11:26pm

Why do you want 1080p on a small screen?

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Me - February 6, 2014 at 12:57am

You do realize that on the MOHs scale of hardness sapphire is rated a 9 and diamond is a 10. Making sapphire crystal (corundum grown in a lab) one of the hardest substances available for such a purpose. It's not impervious but there are very few things hard enough to scratch it.

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gamerscul9870 - February 6, 2014 at 2:35am

Why the Fck does 1080p not matter for a small screen?

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gamerscul9870 - February 6, 2014 at 2:45am

Think that is fake? Watch this: "Sapphire Screen: The Making of A Scratch-Proof Smartphone Display".

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Henric - February 6, 2014 at 2:23pm

You don't know much about screen sizes and resolutions do you?....

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gamerscul9870 - February 6, 2014 at 9:14pm

Agreed. I don't.