Everyone thought Apple was crazy to put a big glass screen on the original iPhone, but that turns out to have been a good idea. Glass adds to the structural strength of your phone, and modern hardened glass is very difficult to scratch. Foldable phones are plastic because there’s no such thing as folding glassweiterlesen

Corning, whose Gorilla Glass displays front Apple’s iPhones and Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones, is developing a new material that combines the toughness of Gorilla with a scratch-resistance that comes close to sapphire. The developmental Gorilla Glass-like composite, currently dubbed Project Phire, was announced Friday at a New York investor meeting by Corning executive James Clappin. Heweiterlesen

Apple’s „Oleophobic coating on sapphire“ patent application represents some of the first hard evidence that the Cupertino, Calif. company is looking to include sapphire in its iPhone lineup. Mikey Campbell | Apple Insider Das Patent (aus dem Jahr 2012) ist mitnichten eine Bestätigung. Im Zusammenspiel mit den erst kürzlich abwertenden Aussagen von Mitbewerber Gorilla Glassweiterlesen

„When we look at it, we see a lot of disadvantages of Sapphire versus Gorilla Glass. It’s about 10 times more expensive. It’s about 1.6 times heavier. It’s environmentally unfriendly. It takes about 100 times more energy to generate a Sapphire crystal than it does glass. It transmits less light which…means either dimmer devices orweiterlesen

Including a maps app on the first iPhone was not even part of the company’s original plan as the phone’s unveiling approached in January 2007. Just weeks before the event, Mr. Jobs ordered a mapping app to show off the capabilities of the touch-screen device. Two engineers put together a maps app for the presentationweiterlesen

Apple räumte auf der diesjährigen WWDC-Keynote dem hochauflösenden Retina-Display großen Präsentationsplatz ein. Schenkt man der ersten ‚Hands-On‚-Berichterstattung Glauben, geschah dies wohl zurecht. Neben der hochgestuften 960 x 640-Auflösung des IPS-Bildschirms, erwähnen fast alle Presse-Berichte einen ‚Crash-Test‘. Ed Baig schrieb für USA Today: „To reinforce the point, an Apple executive dropped it in front of me.weiterlesen