The cover glass on the camera system should be made of sapphire and, thus, shouldn't crack easily — not from keys or coins or even drops.
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Europe gets sapphire in the HTC U Ultra for €849
One of the special edition phones of the year has come to Europe in a rather odd sweep. Amazon.de has pre-orders stacked by the months.
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Affordable Moto G5 launches in beautiful sapphire blue hue, but only on O2 UK
Unlike the US, where the "regular" Moto G5 isn't coming at all, British O2 subscribers can get the phone in three colors, including bright blue.
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This Taiwan-exclusive HTC U Ultra sapphire version isn’t exactly new or unexpected
We've known about the existence of a limited HTC U Ultra edition with a sapphire screen for quite some time, so today's launch is hardly surprising.
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HTC U Ultra with sapphire screen and 128GB storage available in Taiwan next month
The phone will price at the equivalent at $920 and will be available to reserve in mid-February before shipping out a couple of weeks later.
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Sapphire-clad (not really?) HTC One M9(s) better deal-on-paper than One A9, Taiwan-exclusive
Update: We’re getting word from HTC’s Jeff Gordon that only the camera lens is made of sapphire, which would be the case as on the original One M9. In the interest of transparency, here is his tweet to us.@urbanstrata @greenpoint0 If we’re misreading this passage, we’ll retract it. We did see camera had it. pic.twitter.com/9cDL5MGHBg— Pocketnow (@Pocketnow) November 18, ...
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Apple may forgive $439 million loan to bankrupted sapphire supplier
We took the time a couple of years ago to visit GT Crystal Systems, a subsidiary of GT Advanced Technologies, to find out how sapphire displays were made. It’s been a long time since we’ve even entertained the thought of an iPhone (or
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Apple patent reveals new way to solve its sapphire needs
Apple has spent the last couple of years trying to make sapphire a primary component to the iPhone, but so far it hasn’t gone beyond the TouchID controls, and the primary camera lens. By now we already know the hole drama with GT Advanced a few months ago, sending Apple’s plans to a dramatic halt. We do see the company with some solutions for the current Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition, ...
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Apple may use Foxconn to solve its sapphire needs
Apple has tried and failed at bringing us sapphire displays for its iPhone and iPad lineup. The drama behind the company’s attempt to build sapphire in the US is long, and in the end, all we see is the company’s Asian partners trying to solve the problem for Cupertino. Today we learn that Apple is still planning to give us a sapphire iPhone soon, and a long time partner seems to be in charge.Foxconn has been responsible for ...
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Foxconn’s new display factory might build sapphire for Apple
After a very dramatic end to the relationship between Apple and GT Advanced, you’d think that the whole sapphire project came to an abrupt end. In a way it did, or at least for this year, since we don’t really have any Apple product sporting the new display technology that we showed you months ago. That said, Apple has already shown the world that the Apple Watch will sport sapphire in its entry video, and it seems the ...
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Unsealed GT Advanced Technologies statement paints Apple in awful light
Rumors about Apple’s grand plans for sapphire-screened iPhones fell apart in spectacular fashion this year, with the sapphire only ending up on select Apple Watch models (well, when those come out, at least) and Apple’s sapphire partner GT Advanced Technologies filing for bankruptcy. As part of those bankruptcy proceedings, GTAT and its executives have submitted statements with the court, and ...
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Apple and GT Advanced part ways, sapphire not included
One of the most interesting dramas of the year is Apple’s intention to bring sapphire technology to its next iOS and Apple Watch lineup. We heard an insane amount of rumors regarding Apple’s plans with sapphire at the beginning of this year, but these all began to fade as we heard of more and more
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Apple’s sapphire partner files for bankruptcy
One of the biggest questions that was left on the table with the launch of the iPhone 6 is its lack of sapphire. We heard significant teasers that Apple would include the technology on its latest smartphones, tablets and wearables, and for the time being the material can only be found on certain elements ...
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Was Apple ever really planning for a sapphire-screened iPhone 6?
If you were following iPhone 6 rumors going all the way back through the beginning of the year, you were probably a little surprised to see the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus debut without a sapphire display on either of them. Reports about Apple’s sapphire investment may have gone back-and-forth over whether both screen sizes would see the sapphire treatment, but surely at least one of them would end up with such an extremely scratch-resistant screen, right? Well, apparently not, and post-launch rumors ...
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How Apple’s sapphire-screened iPhone 6 plans went off track
In the weeks leading up to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launches, no one seemed to be sure exactly what hardware we were going to get. Would only the 4.7-inch model arrive, with the 5.5-incher delayed until later? While we ultimately saw both handsets make their debut, they did so without one of the features that seemed like such a big components to these rumors going back months and months: a very scratch-resistant sapphire screen. After all,
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