Michal Ždanský This week we were able to see two related videos allegedly showing the front panel of the upcoming iPhone 6 (or, according to some, the iPhone Air). The leaked part comes from Sonny Dickson, who has had his hands on the iPhone 5s chassis or the back of the iPhone 5c in the past, and although he's also passed along a few fake iPhone 6 photos that were just modified Martin Hajek renders, his own sources have been pretty reliable about leaked parts regards
Na the first of the videos Dickson himself showed how the panel could be bent. More interesting is the second video, made by the well-known YouTuber Marques Brownlee, a frequent commentator on the technology scene. He received the panel from Dickson and tested how rough the panel itself can withstand. Surprisingly, even direct stabbing with a knife, rough scratching with a key or bending with a shoe did not leave the slightest signs of damage on the glass. According to Brownlee, it should be sapphire glass, which has long been speculated to be used in the iPhone, among other reasons, because Apple has its own factory available for its production. However, it was not possible to prove whether it is really a synthetic sapphire or the third generation of Gorilla Glass, which is also supposed to be more resistant.
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Professor Neil Alford from Imperial College in London hastened to the mill with his bit, which newspaper The Guardian confirmed that it appears to be an authentic part. According to him, the material on the video behaves exactly as he would expect from a sapphire display. Professor Alford is an expert on sapphire and even consulted for Apple a year and a half ago, as he himself confirmed.
If you make a sapphire thin and flawless enough, you can bend it to a great extent because it is incredibly strong. In my opinion, Apple resorted to some type of lamination - layering different sapphire crystal cutouts on top of each other - to increase the rigidity of the material. They can also create a certain tension on the surface of the glass, either by compression or tension, which would achieve greater strength.
Marques Brownlee, the author of the second video, also believes - after examining the display in detail - that this is 100% a genuine Apple part. Leaving aside the material and its durability, we can see what a possible 4,7-inch iPhone would look like. Compared to the current panel on the iPhone 5s, it has a narrower frame on the sides and slightly rounded glass on the edges. By rounding, provided that it also occurs on the back, the phone will better adapt to the shape of the palm, better ergonomics will also contribute to a greater reach of the thumb, so it should not be a problem to still operate the phone with one hand.
In order for Apple to keep the Retina display, it would have to increase the resolution for such a panel, probably to 960×1704, i.e. three times the base resolution, which would cause only minimal problems for developers, as it allows for relatively easy scaling. Apple is expected to introduce two new iPhones this year, each with a different screen size. According to some information, the second dimension is supposed to be 5,5 inches, however, we have not been able to see such a panel in any photo or video so far. After all, it is not excluded that the second iPhone will retain the existing four inches and thus only one of the phones will get a larger screen.
An almost five-inch iPhone seems to be a reality for half a year now…
Yes and? the article was published when there is really a million proofs and whether it could be a real thing.
…or would you prefer an article about every stupid leak and analyst prediction? there are enough websites for that... but unlike them, jablickar does it right.
Sapphire glass was used for the first time on the iPhone 3GS !!!
4,7" seems real and I'm glad it's not much bigger compared to the iP5... 5,5" is stupid in my opinion, but we'll see what Apple comes up with, personally I think 4" and 4,7" is better than bringing 2 bigger ones models.