Re:Apple Bought $578M Worth of Sapphire
by lostlogin on Saturday November 09, 2013 @01:11AM
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If scratch resistance could be greater it would be very useful. My screen on my older phone has some deep scratches from keys in my pocket - something I now avoid - and hard labour. Smashing concrete, heavy lifting etc when you have a phone in your pocket is brutal on phones. Its a terrible environment for a phone, but I try to get stuff done even when on call. I have checked the screen on a builder I know too, and he has scratches too.
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What phone is that? Maybe it has a plastic screen, those get scratched easily.
In my experience metal is typically much too soft to cause any damage to the glass. If anything can cause damage it’s sand and the like (but it has to really press up against the screen). So, yeah, in an environment with a lot of that stuff glass screens will get scratched. However, it’s not like that’s a common environment for phones to be in.