Aluminosilicate glass of "Apple Watch Sport" is damaged by sandpaper ── Verification video released

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A video was released on YouTube to verify the strength of the same "alumino-silicic acid (Ion-X) glass" as the display glass of the cheapest model "Sport" of "Apple Watch". It's from Unbox Therapy, an online media that once released a video called "I tried bending the iPhone 6".

Hilzen Teger, who bent the iPhone 6 by hand, reappears

The display glass of Apple Watch is "sapphire crystal" which is stronger than Sport. On the Apple Watch Sport page, Apple explains that Ion-X glass "has been strengthened at the molecular level to create a much tougher surface than regular glass."

「Apple Watch Sport」のアルミノケイ酸ガラスは紙やすりで傷つく──検証動画公開

Unbox Therapy showed the glass, which it claims to be the same as Sport's display glass, by rubbing it with a key, knife, steel wool, and two types of sandpaper.

As a result, both types were scratched when rubbed with sandpaper.

Even the sandpaper with the smaller particle size was so scratched.

Regarding sapphire crystal glass, iPhone fixed, a British gadget repair shop, has released a similar scratch test video, where it is introduced that sapphire crystal glass will not be scratched even if it is rubbed on a brick or hit with a hammer. There is.

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