For several months there have been various rumors that support the fact that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is going to implement sapphire glass panels to protect screens iPhonefixes may. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), concluded a partnership with an American company to produce this component of the future terminal, and in the light of all these actions of those from Cupertino, Samsung si LG they started to investigate the use of the material in their own terminals.
According to the industry on May 22, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics recently asked ingot and wafer makers to submit samples in an effort to adopt the sapphire cover glass. "As late as last year, cell phone makers tried very hard to lower the price of sapphire," said a sapphire ingot industry insider. "But this year as the mood swung towards using good materials to get premium prices, related industries are responding to the market more actively."
According to some information appeared during this day, LG si Samsung would have asked its partners to produce prototypes of protective panels for screens that are manufactured using sapphire glass. The movement is done after the one Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), and suggests that we are again talking about a simple copying of what is done in Cupertino, but it was expected that this would happen sooner or later.
Although those from Samsung tried in the past to use this material to protect the screens of their own devices, the high production price motivated the abandonment of its large-scale implementation. However, considering that Apple has found a much more efficient method of producing this material to implement it in smartphones, now various manufacturers are investigating its possible use.
