“With a long list of leaks in recent months showing mock ups of the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones expected for release this fall, today we get a look at what is reportedly our first at the flexibility of the iPhone 6’s new sapphire cover glass,” Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac.
“There’s not much information surrounding this leak or confirmation that what we’re looking at is the real deal, but the sapphire material is indeed something Apple has ramped up production of in recent months at its new Arizona plant,” Kahn reports. “Today’s leak comes from Sonny Dickson who has in the past posted leaked photos of unreleased iPhone mocks up with accurate designs.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
You measured it, bent it, flipped it and inserted a sensor into it. How about trying to scratch it?
Crappity crappity crappity crappity CRAP!
More pontification and regurgitation of analysts secret sources of purported future Apple product releases.
ENOUGH ALREADY! If every MDN blogger received a cent for similar articles they have read, those bloggers would be in a position to retire from work for at least a couple of months by now!
Just saying…………
@Crabapple, outstanding economic analysis. These articles, with their evident popularity, comprise a cottage industry that feeds thousands of bloggers and their families, thanks to idiots like us who have demonstrated an unsatiable appetite for the tripe they prepare. I visualise this as a reality show along the lines of ‘Keeping up with the Iron Chef Kardashians.’
Have a look at this video. Seriously impressive.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/07/07/sapphire-4-7-iphone-6-display-put-through-its-paces-with-knife-and-keys-in-new-scratch-test-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29
Corning must be quaking in their boots.
OMG! It passed the sneaker test! That stuff is seriously flexible.
But I have to worry if Marques Brownlee is cruising for a lawsuit from Apple. Where do people GET Apple pre-release stuff? This could equate to corporate espionage!
Anyway, I’m convinced this guy has the real thing.
So what we do know is that all that BS and FUD put out by Corning and its acolytes like won’t bend and decreased light transmission is it seems totally baseless. Oh well maybe it will shatter easier the only leg they have left standing but don’t give them much hope on that one either.
Take look at this video. Seriously impressive.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/07/07/sapphire-4-7-iphone-6-display-put-through-its-paces-with-knife-and-keys-in-new-scratch-test-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29
Corning must be quaking in their boots.
Wow, just wow. I’m going to get in line for this as soon as I finish lunch. It’s amazing, magical, revolutionary, and awesome beyond words. Apple can save the hype upon release because I am already there, buddy. Who could have imagined?
All that, based on the screen cover?
Hey you are back, what happened to you, I thought you were AWOL. Jay Morrison has taken your place while you were gone, I think you’ll like him.
Now I’m going to have to change a whole bunch of my posts. You didn’t bring Zune Thang back with you did you?
@Road Warrior, I think that ppeterson is funnier than Jay Mortician, who rings the Changes of Doom like Quasimodo with no girlfriend
Best laugh of the day! Thank you dear goddess.
yep had the digital scalpel at my throat more than once.
Today we see a flexible 4.7 sapphire screen for the next iPhone and when an anal-ist downgrades GTAT from buy to neutral, it drops 15%. Who is the idiot, the anal-ist or the people who believed him?
There is nothing in the video that suggests there is sapphire in this screen cover, though it is possible. By the way, one of variants is Apple’s patent about “glueing” of super thin sapphire layer over regular glass — for better strongness (sapphire is hard, but weak, brittle material, so this way could be a measure to deal with the brittleness).
I particularly liked how the presenter demonstrated how your thumb will still be able to reach most if not all of the screen. I would hope in vain that this would silence the “4.7 is to large for my thumb so everyone should suffer with a 4.0 screen size” crybabies. 4.7″ is the new 3.5″
I’m one who held out for the 4 inch screen and still use my 4S. That being said I always used it two handed and with a stylus, so a larger dimension won’t maroon me on irrelevance island. As long as it fits in my clutch I say bring it on.
I meant 3.5. I held out thinking anything larger would be a stretch, but it was Apple doublethink after all. Did Babylonian scribes have these same stupid debates whilst producing cuneiform tablets? — I wonder, what were their trolls like? Some things never change, it seems.
Hard to know how good this is without comparing directly with gorilla glass. The impact test was interesting. A sharp point directly onto the glass creates a large pressure point and the screen came out unscathed.