HTC’s sapphire U Ultra is more scratch resistant than any iPhone or Galaxy phone
HTC isn’t lying when it says that its special edition U Ultra has a sapphire glass display. Zack Nelson put the phone through his usual scratch tests over at JerryRigEverything, and the U Ultra fared better than any other smartphone he’s ever tested. The screen only starts showing scratches at a level 8 on Moh’s hardness scale, which means it will likely stay pristine for the device’s entire lifetime — unless you drop it, which is when sapphire’s brittle downside comes in.
It’s an impressive achievement by HTC. Covering a smartphone’s display with sapphire is a challenge that Apple couldn’t pull off at mass scale; one of the company’s suppliers went bankrupt trying to figure out how to do it. But mass scale is the key piece, here. Just…