While the majority of rumors about Apple's new smartphone are correct, the information is much-anticipated next-generation iPhone is eight sapphire screen is not a reality.
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Tim Bajarin, president of market research firm Creative Strategies, Analyses made in Time magazine about the reasons the iPhone 6 does not use this material. He said that many people have the wrong idea of the use of sapphire on the phone.
Some experts said that sapphire is on the Apple iPhone is due to the difficulties encountered in the production process. Even before the launch, the sources also confirmed the iPhone 6 Plus will be sold back to the end of 2014 to keep up integrated sapphire glass. However, Bajarin said that is not the reason, and Apple has many reasons to toughened glass ion priority than sapphire.
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Design
Phone design trends is now thinner, lighter but the larger size. Achieving this is not easy. To increase the size and weight reduction requires very lightweight material, and sapphire to 30% thicker glass. Corning shows they can produce Gorilla Glass toughened glass thinner than the paper with the ability to minimize the damage when collisions. Flexibility and adaptability are important criteria on the phone. Apple's devices, Samsung ... today have screens with curved glass edge to edge. Glasses can be extremely thin production while ensuring the flexibility and bearing capacity and can bend in any shape, while the sapphire thicker, stiffer and must be cut to desired shape , which increases the costs and problems arising in the process of producing large quantities.
Price
Price is always the consumer's attention and smartphone electronic items have very high competitive level. IPhone prices can be pushed up if Apple added layer of sapphire crystal for the screen by costs of production a sapphire plate 10 times estimated more than toughened glass. A specialist in this field with Bajarin predicted that if used sapphire, iPhone prices will rise at least 100 dollars.
Battery life
One of the things that users are less satisfied with most smartphones is the battery. The producers have limited efforts and all the elements on the device consumes battery. One of those factors is the screen brightness.According to Bernstein Research, good light transmission glass than sapphire. Therefore, at the same brightness, sapphire screen requires more energy. In addition, manufacturers can embed the solution into the glass anti-glare, while the sapphire, they have mulched with anti-glare and this class will lose strength over time.
Impact on the environment
Manufacturers recognize that consumers are more concerned about the products they buy will influence how the environment. Sapphire require the production of energy 100 times more than glass, and the problem is not easily solved in a short time.
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Sapphire very hard, not easily scratched but has high brittleness.
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Reliability
This is what most users or misunderstood. Sapphire is a natural material hardness is rated at 9, which is second only diamond (No. 10). Therefore, it is equipped on luxury watches. However, other phone with your watch.Sapphire very hard though, it also has high brittleness and poor flexibility.In the tests, sapphire easily defeated in the tempered glass is scratch resistant, but when they are dropped, it's more fragile. The clock has a small screen and also rarely fall as smartphones - devices users frequently holding.
In the future, these limitations will be overcome even now, can not understand why Apple users still choose sapphire as expected.
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