Sapphire, the hardest natural substance after diamond, might soon be used to make smartphone screens. Sheets of sapphire glass are already used by the military to create transparent armor, but if a ...

Kyocera has published a new video of its Sapphire Shield smartphone cover in action, pitting it against standard impact-resistant glass in a few drop and scratch tests. As you might expect, the ...

Durability is a greater concern for smartwatches than for any other personal electronics device. Sure, cellular phones can take a beating, but at least you can protect them in a case. Smartwatches, by ...

If you’ve been paying any attention to the Internet’s ever-whirring rumor mill, you might be under the impression that Gorilla Glass is about to receive some stiff competition from sapphire glass. But ...

Morgan Stanley's James Fawcett asked Tripeny about sapphire versus glass now that "there is one large handset and device maker that people suspect maybe looking at Sapphire." This one large ...

Apple has been fitting its iPhone camera lenses with sapphire glass since the launch of the iPhone 5S, but the material might fall short of its purported scratch resistance. Due to a new video that ...

It is now fairly clear that Apple will launch an iPhone or iWatch with a sapphire glass front. Sapphire glass isn't a new material, but it's only in recent years, due to improved manufacturing methods ...

Not since the discontinuation of the iPhone 4s has Apple sold a handset with an all-glass back, but that's rumored to change this year with the flagship "iPhone 8." In the years between those two ...

According to Taiwan media news, Xiaomi 4 will be released in the fourth quarter this year. As a next-generation flagship phone, Xiaomi 4 will not only use the most powerful hardware, and it will be ...

The Rumor: Samsung is hard at work trying to copy Apple's Sapphire glass display on the unannounced iPhone 6. Sapphire glass was in the news again today, thanks to a jump in the share price of GT ...

PAINTED POST, N.Y. -- Using extra-fine sandpaper (320 grit, to be exact), Corning scientist Kevin Reiman lightly rubbed the surface of a small, thin square of transparent sapphire crystal. Synthetic ...

With Apple utilizing a new laser cut sapphire crystal in its redesigned home button that now includes a capacitive fingerprint touch sensor on the iPhone 5s, it’s not that surprising that rumors of a ...