Lying on its back, there are only 2 contact points now: the edge of the camera and a little part of the antenna band, so the back of the phone shouldn't get as scuffed as an older iPhone! Do you think this was intended?
Posted Sep 20, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC
At the expense of scratches on the lens...
Assuming it's still a sapphire lens, I think you're safe as long as you keep diamonds away from it.
Lens doesn't scratch, unless you try to scratch it with diamonds
The sapphire camera lens actually cracked during a drop test from 10 feet high.
Sapphire is very brittle which makes it incredibly scratch-proof at the expense of shattering.. which is why I imagine Apple didn't make the entire front display from sapphire (it's also really expensive too). You have to really try hard to crack or shatter a piece as small as the lens... which a ten foot drop would do.
It's also that sapphire has to be precisely cut, more expensive. Sapphire lets less light through, so either bigger batter or shorter battery life in order for more brightness, again more expensive
The hardness of a mineral is is resistance to scratching, not breaking.
So?
Diamonds
Honestly?
No, I don't think apple intended the camera to poke out, but I would bet they couldn't shrink the lens as much as they wanted during their time table. They had to concede that feature as a necessary evil, and so they wrapped it up.
Honestly the whole antenna bands thing and camera poking out tells me that the apple watch sucked up a lot of design resources
With phones getting thinner and thinner I doubt the protruding lense problem will go away.I just see it difficult that any company can change the way physics work.
Why thinner and thinner. To support the case? Look at the s5 active. Durable waterproof, no case.
I guess the potentiality of a case whilst still being small; allows for individuality, but I don't know, seems so asymmetric and out of place this time.