iPhone 6 Sapphire Screen Challenged with Sandpaper [Video]

There is a new video on the Internet demonstrating the qualities of the sapphire glass protecting the screen of iPhone 6. The experimentalists concluded that the smartphone?s protective panel is made of not pure sapphire.

Marcus Brownlee, a blogger, posted a video on YouTube in which the sapphire crystal front panel of iPhone 6 is tested for scratch resistance. According to Brownlee, the panel came from a phones assembly line at one of the factories in Asia. Note that the blogger provided no evidence in this regard.

In the past, the glass was successfully tested proofing the device from scratches when the blogger attempted it with the knife and the keys. This time he decided to challenge it with sandpaper. Brownlee inflicted scratches on the glass of iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 and compared the results.

It turned out that the glass of iPhone 6 is more resistant to damage than the one of iPhone 5s. Abrasive paper of different graininess left less scratches on it. At the same time, the Home button of the current flagship, made of sapphire, do not receive any damage. Marcus Brownlee suggests that the glass of iPhone 6 is manufactured of not pure sapphire, therefore it combines the best properties of traditional panels – transverse and torsion strength – and of sapphire ? its scratch resistance.

At the end of the video the glass is shot with a sports bow. As expected, the glass crumbled to pieces.

Source: macdigger.ru