iPhone 6 indestructible glass is the latest rumor in Apple iPhone developments. The next generation of the iPhone, which is unofficially dubbed the iPhone 6, are getting techies excited with this recent word on the grapevine. Rumors of the iPhone 6 indestructible glass came from the new Apple patent, which adds more weight to the viability of the product, reports the Huffington Post.
The next iPhone is now believed to be made of a type of nearly indestructible glass.
According to Huff Post, Apple has won a patent a week for "fused glass device housings." The patent enforces rumors of the iPhone 6 indestructible glass as according to an Apple Insider report, it is a reported new method of fusing together pieces of glass, which could be used to make casings for devices like the iPhone and iPad.
The patent award came along with rumors that the front panel of Apple's next phone will be made from a super-durable substance also known as sapphire glass. On Monday, tech vlogger Marques Brownlee has uploaded a YouTube video which shows the unbreakable nature of the upcoming iPhone's sapphire-glass front. In the video, video producer Brownlee scratched the iPhone 6 indestructible glass with a knife, a set of keys, and even bent it the glass to more than 90 degrees under his shoe, but without making a single scratch.
By the end of the video showing the toughness of the iPhone 6 indestructible glass, the worst that Brownlee appears to have done was leave fingerprints on the phone's surface.
Apple reportedly applied a for a patent for "sapphire laminates" before, hinting on the company's attempts at figuring out how to apply sapphire glass in the case-making process.
It states in the new patent that the iPhone 6 indestructible glass may just be possible since the company has figured out a way to create an all-glass device that would remain its durability and still be lightweight at the same time. The process would be essentially fusing multiple pieces of glass as opposed to designing casings out of a single slab.
The patent of a highly likely iPhone 6 indestructible glass can be viewed in full here. It maintains Jonathan Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Design, as one of the inventors. Filed in January 2012 , the patent was just awarded Tuesday.
There have been rumors of a return to the phone's famously breakable glass construction with the iPhone 4 and 4S. But with this iPhone 6 indestructible glass, the sapphire-glass casing will leave these fears allayed.
CBS News reports that Apple's current iPhone 5S uses Corning Gorilla Glass for its front screen. The sapphire is only used for the protection of the camera and the Touch ID fingerprint sensor.
The YouTube video showing the possible iPhone 6 indestructible glass is reported to be of a 4.7-inch screen, which suggests that perhaps is also possible that the glass will be available only on a smaller iPhone and not just the 5.5-inch version, as thought in previous rumors.
If what was tested in Brownlee's video was indeed of the iPhone 6 indestructible glass, then this means that the new iPhone will be an immense improvement from the previous shatter-prone Gorilla Glass that Apple has been accustomed to.
Also, according to CNET, in November, Apple partnered with Massachusetts-based GT Advanced Technologies, the company which owns and operates the furnaces that produce sapphire glass for Apple. Apple has agreed to prepay $578 million for "an Apple facility in Arizona."
In April, tech blog 9to5Mac reported that Apple had begun supplying Chinese suppliers with sapphire glass from a factory in Arizona.
iPhone 6 indestructible glass rumors also came from the increased sapphire glass production, which also speculated on the long-rumored iWatch and a larger 5.5-inch iPhone. Though there are no guarantees as to the iPhone 6 indestructible glass, Apple fans will just have to wait and see.
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