I just spent a few hours reading about sapphire glass which will be on smartphones soon, and I have few concerns and questions about the topic.
They claim that sapphire is harder than gorilla glass but does that mean it's shutter proof? Most articles are just high lighting how scratch proof that glass is. Following the logic, harder the material is, then it's more brittle. I've seen sapphire watches break as well as having micro scratches all over the watch face. Same myth of durability goes around diamonds which are supposedly forever. You can crash diamonds with hammer and sometimes they cracks as well.
None of the videos I've watched have the proof that sapphire is more crack or shatter proof than gorilla glass in actual everyday use. They bend it, they try to scratch it but most of reviewers never push it to the boundary of breaking it. Just because it's so "invisible" would it save your phone from accidental unlucky edge drop landing? Would it have more to do with shock absorption on the glass than the glass itself? Another way of saying would better engineering installation of the glass would prevent your phone from shattering?
Kyocera Brigadier already has sapphire glass, but it's a rugged phone and it's made for rough use. So it's glass is far more protected than any other future phone's screen.
Would it worth getting a smartphone featuring sapphire glass in the future or gorilla glass 3 is tough enough?
They claim that sapphire is harder than gorilla glass but does that mean it's shutter proof? Most articles are just high lighting how scratch proof that glass is. Following the logic, harder the material is, then it's more brittle. I've seen sapphire watches break as well as having micro scratches all over the watch face. Same myth of durability goes around diamonds which are supposedly forever. You can crash diamonds with hammer and sometimes they cracks as well.
None of the videos I've watched have the proof that sapphire is more crack or shatter proof than gorilla glass in actual everyday use. They bend it, they try to scratch it but most of reviewers never push it to the boundary of breaking it. Just because it's so "invisible" would it save your phone from accidental unlucky edge drop landing? Would it have more to do with shock absorption on the glass than the glass itself? Another way of saying would better engineering installation of the glass would prevent your phone from shattering?
Kyocera Brigadier already has sapphire glass, but it's a rugged phone and it's made for rough use. So it's glass is far more protected than any other future phone's screen.
Would it worth getting a smartphone featuring sapphire glass in the future or gorilla glass 3 is tough enough?
