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Tag: 4.5-inch iPhone

Corning stock cracks on Q2 earnings miss; Gorilla Glass hurt by weak Samsung phone sales

Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:02 pmTuesday, July 29, 20149 Comments

Corning shattered its recent winning streak on the stock market…

Apple’s sapphire production will be hard for Samsung, other copiers to match

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 9:58 amWednesday, May 7, 201429 Comments

After sealing a deal with GT Advanced for the manufacture of sapphire crystals at a new plant in Arizona…

Rising sapphire display cost may limit 5.5-inch iPhone 6 production, source claims

Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:02 pmTuesday, May 6, 201422 Comments

The majority of leaks and rumors concerning the iPhone 6…

Apple begins shipping sapphire from GT Advanced’s Arizona plant to China ahead of iPhone 6 launch

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:58 pmWednesday, April 30, 20145 Comments

Apple for the first time started shipping sapphire from Mesa, Arizona to…

How Apple’s billion dollar sapphire bet will pay off big time

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:29 amTuesday, April 22, 201413 Comments

Apple is making a billion dollar bet on sapphire as a strategic material…

Apple’s iPhone 6 will demolish Android

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 9:01 amWednesday, April 9, 201449 Comments

If Apple wanted to actively pursue Android-like marketshare it would and easily could have done it a long time ago…

Apple sapphire crystal display rumors buoy GT Advanced stock

Monday, March 17, 2014 3:01 pmMonday, March 17, 2014No Comments

GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) stock was up 2.5% in early afternoon trading…

Apple’s adoption of sapphire may not have much impact on Corning

Monday, March 10, 2014 11:29 amMonday, March 10, 20148 Comments

In November 2013, Apple announced a $578 million deal with GT Advanced Technologies…

Gorilla Glass-maker Corning again slams sapphire; subtext aimed at Apple

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 12:00 pmWednesday, March 5, 201448 Comments

A Corning executive launched a blistering critique of sapphire crystal…

What’s the deal with Apple’s new Arizona sapphire plant?

Friday, February 28, 2014 1:14 pmFriday, February 28, 201421 Comments

Basically, Apple has paid $113 million for an empty factory and loaned GT $578 million…

Apple’s iPhone 6 is not coming in May, but it is coming with sapphire

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 11:01 amWednesday, February 26, 20145 Comments

Because Apple sells more than 150 million iPhones a year…

Apple sapphire supplier’s projected 2H14 revenues likely indicate fall iPhone launch

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 1:01 pmTuesday, February 25, 20143 Comments

GT-Advanced announced its Q4 2013 earnings results…

Why did Apple just snap up the entire planet’s supply of sapphire glass?

Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:00 amThursday, February 20, 201430 Comments

the sapphire crystal Apple already uses for the cover glass on the iPhone 5s…

Canonical CEO: Apple just bought up a 3-year supply of sapphire displays

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:02 pmMonday, March 2, 201520 Comments

Apple just snapped up the entire 3-year supply of the same sapphire display…

Apple missing out on ‘seismic shift’ as large-screen smartphones predicted to sell over 240 million units in 2014

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 5:45 pmWednesday, February 19, 201468 Comments

Worldwide unit shipments for the large smartphone category will reach just over 240 million units in 2014…

Samsung laughs at Apple’s tiny-screen, non-HD iPhone in new ad (with video)

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:00 pmWednesday, February 19, 201466 Comments

Anyone who watches the NBA knows that to win it all, you need size…

Apple to launch iPhone 6 with 4.7- and 5.5-inch sapphire crystal displays in September, sources say

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:33 am16 Comments

The new iPhone screen will be made entirely from scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass…

Apple plans pair of iPhone with bigger screens; 4.5-inch and over 5-inch models coming, sources say

Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:29 pmThursday, January 23, 201445 Comments

Facing competition from rivals offering smartphones with bigger screens…

iPhone 5s users consume unprecedented data levels; large screen smartphones drive heavy data use

Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:17 amThursday, January 23, 201422 Comments

According to a large-scale survey of mobile data consumption in 2013…

Asymco’s Horace Dediu: Tim Cook’s answer to my first question

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 12:03 pmWednesday, May 29, 201315 Comments

It would take a great deal more sourcing effort and risk while dealing with…

Why Apple hasn’t released your big fat iPhablet (yet)

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 1:31 pmTuesday, May 14, 201331 Comments

Tim no-new-products-until-this-fall Cook has held his fire…

Big phones, phablets and tablets only account for 10% of Android installed base

Friday, May 3, 2013 3:31 pmFriday, May 3, 201310 Comments

While many pundits insist that Apple must make a larger screen iPhone…

Donald Trump: Tim Cook must immediately increase iPhone’s screen size

Monday, April 29, 2013 2:02 pmMonday, April 29, 2013107 Comments

In a tweet today, Donald Trump claims to own “a lot” of Apple stock…

Concept puts 4.5-inch display in iPhone 5-sized unit by removing Home Button (with video)

Monday, April 15, 2013 5:01 pmMonday, April 15, 201323 Comments

If Apple wants to make an iPhone with a 4.5-inch screen…

Apple to launch 4.5-inch low-cost polycarbonate iPhone in 2014, source says

Thursday, February 28, 2013 10:08 pm32 Comments

Apple reportedly has a completely redesigned low-end iPhone in the works…

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