Apple
has been creating a huge hype in the market after the announcement of
its new technology, Corning’s curved glass.
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This technology has been
making rounds on the internet for a long time but nothing has been
surfaced as yet. Apple has remained to be passive in terms of sending
clues to its potential customers. We get most of the clues from its
suppliers.
In the recent past, an iWatch and curved iPhone
have been the most popular products from the drawer of Apple. These
products are still in the pipeline for launching in the year 2014. Both
these devices will be equipped with a curved display. This is a feature
that has been missing from Apple’s devices for a long time.
Corning is one of the pivotal
suppliers of Apple and it has been playing an important role of being a
supplier for many other smartphone and tablet manufacturing companies.
Corning has given the customers a very important info. It announced that the company is working on the development of curved version of Gorilla Glass
which will be featured in 2014 in the market. After this announcement,
a lot of rumors and speculations have followed that point towards
Apple’s take on Curved Glass.
When it came to the
manufacturing of iPhone, Gorilla glass played an important role. After
Gorilla Glass featured in the earlier version of iPhone, Steve Jobs had
asked Corning to make a super hard glass for the next variants of
iPhone. This material was originally used by the fighter jets in 1960’s.
They were employed in the cockpits of the planes. The Plexiglass
surprise by Apple has been blanketed with the surge of the “Gorilla
Glass” idea. It might go on and do the same stuff for iPhone and iWatch
too.
The new generations of mobile
handsets that are being featured in the market are most likely to
possess curved displays and they will be equipped with a stronger glass.
It will be used for daily jobs and there would be no worries about its
breakage. Apple is expected to endorse such glass in its next devices.
The product manager of Corning’s 3D Shaped Gorilla Glass, Scott Forester
has claimed that the new technique that will be employed in the making
of Gorilla glass will help the developers to make it at a cheaper price.
The glass will be able to bend for 75-80 degrees and it could turn into
any shape that the user desires.
The recent upbringing is
expected to send a wave of competition to the other rivals such as
Samsung and LG that are also working on curved smartphone displays. This
glass may well be a good replacement for plastic and metal bezels used
to case the device. The buttons situated on the front portion will be
taken to the side panels which is good news too. The new induction by
Apple will totally change the way users interact with their phones
currently. Forester also added that there will be a tool kit available
which will unlock a few more designs that the user likes.
Forester gave the media fair
bit of info but he declined to be having any confirmation from Apple
about endorsing such a glass. He did not mention whether Apple is their
customer or not. However, he stated that a lot of manufacturers have
been demanding this tech in the market as they want to bring a
revolution in the way people use their phones.
This announcement has come a few months
after Apple had announced the buildup of a new manufacturing unit in
Arizona that would develop Sapphire. Sapphire is playing an instrumental
role these days in the making of the portable devices. It is having the
properties of being starch resistant and is better than glass in many
ways. The hope of creation of new glass has created an anxiety among
Apple fans but we have to wait and see what happens next.
Source:wsj
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