The sapphire should have been used already at iPhone 6, but according to JP Morgan analyst Rod Hall, this may not be the case. In his report to investors, the analyst expressed concern over the availability of sapphire glass for phones iPhone. ProAccording to him, there are several problems, but above all it is the length of production and the production price of the slide. According to the analyst, even today, one sapphire glass has a value approximately 10 times higher than Corning Gorilla Glass, despite the fact that GT Advanced bought Twin Creeks, the company behind the Hyperion technology, which allows for a reduction in the manufacturing cost of slides.
However, everything has its own problem and even the Hyperion technology is not yet ready for use in mass production, which is why, according to the analyst, it is unlikely that it will be Apple able to launch a phone with a sapphire crystal later this year. The analyst rather expects that the former iPhone with a sapphire crystal will not appear on the market until the summer of 2015. This should also be indicated by a new claim by The Wall Street Journal, according to which the company Apple she has not yet decided whether or not to use the sapphire crystal u iPhone 6. Paradoxically, the WSJ had previously stated that Apple will only use sapphire on the highest variantov iPhone 6 to iPhone 6L. However, it is still necessary to take into account that the production of the phone iPhone 6 should already be in full swing, and analyst Hall's statement is therefore debatable.
The most beautiful render of the iPhone 6 is definitely the one below the article