iPhone 5 with scratch resistant sapphire screen demoed at Mobile World Congress 2013 (w/ video)
Friday, March 1, 2013 - 08:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org)—An iPhone 5 with a layer of man-made sapphire covering its Gorilla Glass 2 screen has been demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. The purpose was to demonstrate how much more scratch resistant a screen with such a covering can be. Representatives from GT Advanced Technologies, a company that manufactures sapphire for industrial purposes, rubbed the screen phone with cement to prove just how scratch resistant the material is.