The Apple company boasts that iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have camera lenses protected by sapphire glass, its smartphones released in the last 2 years benefiting from the same thing. Although Apple boasts that it uses sapphire glass, unfortunately the quality of this material used by Americans is much weaker than normal.
In the video clip below you will see that the sapphire glass used to protect the camera lens in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is scratched as easily as a Gorilla Glass protective panel. This caused a lot of discussions on the Internet, and someone thought to analyze the problem in detail to make an interesting discovery.
According to some tests done under a microscope and using special equipment from an American university, the sapphire glass used by Apple is of poor quality. It scratches more easily than the one used to protect the screens of Swiss watches, the Apple company offering practically the same protection as Gorilla Glass for the camera lens.
iPhone 7 – Apple uses poor quality sapphire
Analyzing the component materials of sapphire glass revealed that it is impure, and therefore it is not as resistant as that used in watches. In this idea, anything that scratches the iPhone screen will also scratch the sapphire glass that protects the camera lens, and this is a pretty big problem for Apple.
The use of an impure sapphire is based on the reduction of production costs for this component, and the protection provided for the camera lens is affected. Apple will never admit the problem, but unfortunately users with scratched camera lenses will suffer from this change.
Now another problem is being discussed? Does Apple use the same type of sapphire to protect the Apple Watch screen against scratches? Those from Cupertino boasted that they protect the screens of some Apple Watch models with sapphire glass, but if it is of equally bad quality, then the protection is practically useless.
