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No , you did n’t interpret the headline wrong . Although we await Apple to release theiPhone 16 serieslater this twelvemonth , there ’s already a unexampled rumour about the 2025 iPhone 17 — and it ’s a potentially big one .
Instant Digital , who is known for leaking iPhone info , recently posteda new iPhone 17 rumour on the Chinese social connection Weibo take that Apple has germinate a novel presentation technology for the iPhone 17 . Specifically , it ’s one that could greatly cut reflections and scratches .
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As Instant Digital writes : “ Apple drop million on coating equipment in Japan , which has been turn over over to China ’s supply chain of mountains , but the iPhone 16 series ca n’t keep up . The proscribed glassful of the iPhone 17 serial publication will be made into a super - hard [ anti - meditative ] layer . It can be said that the iPhone 17 series will be more scratch - repellent than you retrieve . ”
There are a couple of matter to unpack here . First is the reported “ anti - reflective layer . ” Although current iPhones already do a commendable job of being seeable in direct sun , further improvement here are always welcome to see . However , it ’s the second bit about the iPhone 17 serial being “ more scratch - insubordinate ” that has me the most excited .
I ’ve been using theiPhone 15 Pro Maxas my daily smartphone since its release last September , and its screen door islitteredwith scrape . They ’re all enhancive and do n’t bear upon how I use the phone , but there are a lot of them — and I detest every single one . I found myself in a like situation last year with the iPhone 14 Pro . The Ceramic Shield glass Apple ’s used on its iPhones since 2020 does a praiseworthy job at being shatter - trial impression , but for whatever rationality , it ’s never impressed in terms of scratch resistance . If this is something Apple ’s working to amend for the iPhone 17 , you’re able to matter me in .
It ’s also deserving notice how standardized this new display engineering sounds to Corning ’s Gorilla Armor Methedrine , which debuted on theSamsung Galaxy S24 Ultrathis year . Corning says that Gorilla Armor abridge reflection by up to 75 % , is “ over four times ” more scratch - resistant , and “ up to three times ” more drop - resistant . When he prove it in January , Digital Trends ’ Prakhar Khanna called Gorilla Armor “ one of the bounteous improvements in the Galaxy S24 Ultra . ”
The iPhone 17 is obviously still far off at this point , so it ’s difficult to say how this rumor will take for up in the coming calendar month . However , if this is indeed something Apple is working on for the 2025 iPhone , I ca n’t wait for it .
