Now that we know all about the latest coevals of iPhone(s ) , it ’s time to start approximate what Apple ’s going to do next . This is a time when true fanboys dive into Apple ’s growing depository library of patents for clues . And while we ca n’t carry all these patent to make it to market , it ’s fun to wonder .
allot to a patentpublished a brace Day after Tuesday ’s iPhone event , Apple might be thinking about how to make an undestroyable iPhone , a plan that involves wrap up the equipment with sapphire , a stone second only to diamonds in hardness . The process detail in the patent filing describes a process that would sandwich a piece of glass between two layer of sapphire to make a laminate . utilize to an iPhone or iPad , this laminate would be much unbreakable . If you drop your phone , it ’s no job — it ’s unvanquishable .
But is it practical ? Well … it ’s complicated . Being the secondly unvoiced stone and everything , lazuline is an expensive material to begin with and even more expensive once you factor in the costs of processing it . Apple brings this upin the patent of invention filing , noting how difficult slip and polish the material would be . It ’s so hard that it would wear out the machines that process the sapphire .
Preparing the sapphire would be difficult but not impossible . As Apple made very readable at this hebdomad ’s iPhone event , the new Touch ID fingerprint - scanning home push on the iPhone 5Sis actually lazuline crystal . The same textile is also used to cover the camera lens on other iPhones .
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Apple has also dealt with expensive manufacturing material before . So if it can figure out a way to clobber the twist with rare Earth metals inside the sound andkeep the cost of components under $ 200 , it should be able to figure out how to make for down the toll of sapphire . Plus , each piece of sapphire laminate would be less than a millimeter thick .
To be perfectly dependable , “ practical ” is a passably pliant password these daylight . The fingermark digital scanner on the iPhone 5S is n’t of necessity a virtual acclivity from the boring sometime iPhone 5 , but it is an ascent . Any middle - hilltop upraise introduction is worthwhile in the smartphone business , where innovationhas slowed to a creep . experience a screen that fundamentally does n’t break is something that exploiter would get worked up about , perhaps excited enough to bribe a new telephone . Furthermore , nothing spells luxury like a sky-blue and gold iPhone . [ evidently AppleviaAppleInsider ]
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