Apple loves sapphire. The iPhone 5S has a sapphire cover over the fingerprint reader and also over the camera. Recently, Apple announced a multi-year agreement with GT Advanced Technologies ...

The iPhone 6 will be the ... for glass and my suggestion was sapphire because if its scratch resistance and wide use.” What Is Sapphire? Is it Just Like The Gemstone? “It is the same chemical ...

A YouTube video of what's purported to be the iPhone 6 front glass panel, made of sapphire crystal, shows it standing up to being stabbed with a knife, scratched with keys and bent as hard as ...

Apple created the blueprint for a smartphone when it covered the touch screen of its first iPhone in ... creating the gems found in jewellery. Without such impurities, sapphire is clear.

Given that Apple reportedly spent $578 million buying up sapphire in a Mr Burns-esque deal for the gemstone in February, it clearly had confidence that its use in iPhone 6 displays would be a ...