Smartphone screen sapphire will launch this year

Almost all of the major cellphone makers in the world are considering replacing the Corning Gorilla glass on the sapphire-like smartphone screen, .

In the near future, sapphire can become a thing
whether the popularity of the smart phone screen.

One of the top candidates, likely to be Google's 'X-phone' , is the recently announced Larry Page, whose next phone screen will be scratch-resistant and 'impossible'. broken '.

Sapphire has three times the hardness of Gorrilla glass and three times more scratch resistance. Today, the price of sapphire is about 10 times higher than that of the Gorilla glass, which costs about $ 30 for a smartphone screen, compared to just $ 3 for Gorilla Glass. Even so, sapphire prices are dropping sharply, and may eventually end up only three to four times the cost of glass.

The current sapphire production process is constantly being improved and companies like GT Advanced Technologies have announced they can produce in any size.

Cell phone manufacturers can also cover the phone screen with an ultra-thin sapphire to increase their hardness and scratch resistance without over-charging.