“According to industry insiders cited by the Korean media earlier today, both Samsung and LG have recently got in touch with sapphire glass manufacturers / suppliers in order to receive a few samples of their work,” G 4 Games reports. “Allegedly, both companies have reviewed the material last year as well, but due to the fact that sapphire glass is a rather expensive material, neither Samsung nor LG have been willing to adopt it.”
“This year however, the aforementioned Korean tech giants might be forced by the industry to reconsider their decision,” G 4 Games reports. “With numerous other gadget manufacturers putting a lot of thought into making sapphire glass feasible, and with Apple already operating the sapphire glass processing plant in US, Arizona, LG and Samsung are supposedly going to jump on the sapphire display bandwagon sooner rather than later.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Good luck with that, slavish copiers.
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I hope they do, and I hope it forces them to put up prices, or slashes their tiny profits to the absolute bone.
As,sung will spray paint the glass with a microfiber dust of sapphire and call it Saphire Enhanced Glass.
That is so true. Rather like Microsoft tried a few years back to give the impression that their tablets were some form of liquid metal substitute when they expected Apple to launch their own and thus gain cachet by association and boasting about getting there first. That con didn’t fool anyone which is the norm when the real thing doesn’t actually happen soon afterwards.
Microfine! 😫
of course they are 👼👹
Coupled with a Liquid Metal case…it should be unbreakable.
Corning is really sweating this and ruing their Samscum move…
Yes they are and their propaganda has been pretty transparent. haha
So Samsung and LG are going into Sapphire jewelry before Apple does?
Just honest coincidence! We not copy ol steal like westeln balbalians!!
You’re on this site… uhh… why, exactly?
Let’s see, Alex and James yesterday, and Spider today. How many unregistered IDs are you actually using?