How tough is it in real life?
Call me old fashioned, but real world experience tends to not live up to marketing department hyperbollocks.
Huawei claims it has the world’s first smartphone with a tough sapphire glass screen – beating Apple to the all-important vaporware space. There isn’t actually a new phone under the glass – it’s apparently a sapphire-hardened version of Huawei’s P7 flagship (reviewed here) and Huawei wouldn’t say how much it will cost. Back …
Some people report sapphire "glass" on watches remaining blemish free for decades under robust use, although others have also had them scratch within years. The Mohs scale has corundum (sapphire and ruby) second only to diamond for hardness, so I'd be comfortable stating it should outperform any type of silicon oxide glass for "toughness" when used as a device screen covering, although some people do appear to have a knack for scratching pretty much anything.
Didn't one of those vanity custom phone makers already use sapphire glass in their handsets?
Vertu, I believe.
And of course I believe a previous El Reg article pointed that out... so neither Apple or Huawei are first to the punch.
So it must be a slow news day...
Go Team Lohan!