Does Apple “copy” the secret ingredient of Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for the iPhone 17?
According to the latest advances from China, after launching the titanium trend, Apple now finds itself following Samsung when it comes to resistence and other screen features, with a new type of glass coming with the series iPhone 17 (by the way, do you know how to record your iPhone screen?).
The news comes from leaker Chinese Instant Digitalwho published a piece of news on Weibo according to which the 2025 Apple phones will be equipped with a screen with “super hard anti-reflective layer” which is “more scratch resistant than you think“.
Do these two characteristics remind you of anything? Exactly, they reflect what Samsung introduced with its Galaxy S24 Ultrawhich thanks to Corning’s new Gorilla Armor is actually more resistant to scratches and, as we have seen with our own eyes, has fewer reflections than competing devices (as you can see from the image below published by Ice Universewhere at the top there is iPhone 15 Pro Max and below Galaxy S24 Ultra).
We don’t know if the iPhone 17 they will be equipped with the same Gorilla Armor, but from what has been stated it will still have similar characteristics. However Corning supplied its coatings to Apple for a long time before Apple switched to Ceramic Shield in 2020 with iPhone 12.
And this coating was also developed by anyway Corningalbeit in collaboration with Apple, so much so that Apple declared it had invested in 2021 495 million dollars to support Corning’s ongoing research and development in “cutting-edge glass processes.” Apple said that if the glass on the iPhone 12 era 4 times more resistant to drops than the iPhone 11, on the iPhone 15 was marketed as “the strongest of any smartphone glass“.
But as we saw with Galaxy S24 this year a different path has been taken: no longer resistance to falls but to scratches. And more attention to reflections.
According to Instant Digitalthe new coverings have just been delivered to supply chain Chinese, but they still won’t make it in time to get there iPhone 16. Hence the news that they will arrive on iPhone 17where probably, even if they use the same technology as the Galaxy, they will be called something else first name.
