A NEW Sapphire Smartphone?! - Ultra Rugged or Ultra Premium?

Today in front of us we have a phone with what claims to be a

sapphire

screen, this is the Duraforce Ultra 5G. Sapphire screens are incredibly rare and incredibly scratch-resistant, with a level of hardness on par with diamonds, so if that's true, this phone does it. In fact, having a

sapphire

display means it's one of the most durable and protected phones on the planet right out of the box. It should be very interesting because protection is a good thing both physically and online. Many thanks to Bitdefender for sponsoring this video. Bitdefender is a cyber company. security leader offering the best prevention, detection and response solutions worldwide bitdefender offers protection and privacy without compromising the performance of your device for as little as three dollars and 34 cents a month you can get ransomware protection webcam protection protection of microphone and even parental controls that include screen time limits on different devices, parental controls can work because bitdefender works on multiple devices simultaneously, including PC, Mac, iOS and Android.

Bitdefender also comes with a VPN and monitors online threats in real time, and to top things off, new users get a four-month trial. from bitdefender total security with the link below in the description protection is a good thing and it's always better to have it before you need it so i'll leave that link below people who are fanatics about protection will probably love this sapphire covered phone If it is really covered in sapphire there is only one way to know for sure let's start the duraforce

ultra

5g with sapphire shield is manufactured by kyocera kyocera is one of the

rugged

phone manufacturers for the last 20 years.

I've only seen a few sapphire display

smartphone

s in the past, notably the HTC Ultra Sapphire Edition and Kyocera's older brother, the Duraforce Pro 2, released in 2018, and of course Apple has tried to make a sapphire watch and sapphire camera lenses, but its sapphire is more of a marketing situation than reality, this

ultra

is definitely a

rugged

and rugged looking phone with a kind of built-in protective armor thicker than even my own

smartphone

inside the case. dbrand grip, it's a tank, which is what we'd expect from a phone that wants to be the The world's most durable Kyocera claims to be ultra-rugged, meaning it's even tougher than the regular rugged and a sapphire screen definitely It would help take it to the next level.

I have a set of Mohs selections that tell us where different materials are on the largest scale. Hardness plastic like Samsung's foldable phones would start to scratch at level two or three; glass phones like most smartphones on the market today would scratch at level six with deeper grooves at level seven. when we get to levels six and seven as we see there are no visible marks on the screen of the duraforce ultra it still looks like a new phone straight out of the box incredibly impressive only when we get to level 8 we start to see scratches with deeper grooves at level 9 . levels on the most hardness scales that would normally destroy a screen, the Duraforce Ultra 5g is, in fact, made of sapphire crystal and cannot be scratched by almost everything except diamonds.

Speaking of which, the Mohs hardness scale is not the only way to check sapphire. Here we have a diamond. selection tool that can distinguish between crystals and non-crystals as they have different thermal properties, for example my wife's wedding ring, which I borrow for a minute, registers as a gemstone and if we test the duraforce screen ultra also registers as a gem, but when I go to test my own smartphone screen, it doesn't register as a gem as it is only made with tempered glass and is nothing special. Approved by science, I definitely do not recommend that you propose a proposal with a duraforce ultra. but scientifically it is quite similar to a wedding ring.

We'll talk more about sapphire in a minute. Also, don't let me lose my wife's ring or I'll be in big trouble. There is an 8-megapixel front camera hidden underneath. the sapphire display along with a plastic earpiece and what looks like a large plastic speaker grill near the bottom that is solidly attached to the phone and of course we have some very thick textured plastic sides and large screen protectors. rubber in each of the four corners. It is specifically designed to withstand five foot drops onto concrete, there is a programmable plastic button on the right side along with a SIM card tray that has an expandable memory SD card slot, then we have the scratch-off power button which is a fingerprint scanner combo and more.

At the top we have another bright orange programmable button that is supposed to be used for emergency calls, but can be configured to do other things if you don't live your life on the edge and here under this airtight flap we find our good friend the headphone. Jack, this phone has everything on the left side, we have volume buttons and a walkie-talkie button that you can press to talk and finally, down here at the bottom of the phone, under another watertight flap, we have the USB-C. Charging Port The Duraforce Ultra is IP6A waterproof and is one of the only manufacturers I know of that includes water damage in their two-year warranty.

Everyone else, like Apple and Samsung, would leave you hanging if your phone gets wet, but Kyocera is there. Your Kyocera even has an underwater camera mode, it's like they're begging you to get your phone wet, the gold contacts on the back are for attaching accessories, then we have the dual flash along with a time of flight depth camera that used for autofocus in the center we have the 16 megapixel wide angle camera and on the right side we have the 24 megapixel main sensor all covered by more sapphire for reference the lens that covers my own cameras is made of glass.

Kyocera has spared no expense. I would have to have a pocket full of diamonds to scratch the screen or camera lens and if you have a pocket full of diamonds, I want to know why you have a pocket full of diamonds, one of the reasons why sapphire screens are so rare It is because of how difficult it is to create sapphire which has been grown in huge furnaces at over 2000 degrees Celsius for over two weeks with constant helium gas running through the crucible after cooking it you get a cylinder called bool which can then be cut into rectangular blocks. which are used for cell phone or watch screens rather than drawn on plastic, although I could show you that this is a super heavy pure sapphire brick cut from one of the basketball sized bowls.

It's worth about a thousand dollars and obviously smartphone screens are quite a bit thinner than this so it would still need to be sliced ​​thin like a really expensive cheese that probably wouldn't taste very good and since the Sapphire is so hard and scratch resistant, the whole process is very expensive and very difficult, which is why most manufacturers have not tried it and some manufacturers like Apple simply make impure imitations. Cooking glass at high temperatures for weeks is a pretty amazing science. Speaking of high temperatures, the Duraforce Ultra uses a 5.4-inch 1080p IPS liquid crystal display, the pixels start to turn black and turn black.

They go out after about 30 seconds under the heat of my lighter, but after the heat is removed they come back to life and recover completely. Lastly the fingerprint reader is right where I like it, on the power button, this phone is designed to be used with gloves but of course the scanner needs fingerprint contact to work if the scanner ever gets scratched , which would be hard to do considering the shape of the phone, will stop working, but that feels a bit finicky since the rest of the phone can survive almost anything, except maybe a trip through a blender made of diamonds.

A test in the container even seems unnecessary at this point, since you would have to drive it with the tank to do any real damage, but as we all could have guessed. There are no flexible kinks, cracks or damage to any type of phone when bent from the back or front. I could probably skip testing more phones this year, since this guy practically just won the award for most durable phone in 2021, it's pretty amazing. device, good job, kyocera. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with next. Do you want sapphire in your next phone?

Let me know in the comments. I'm going to give my wife a ring back because happy wife, happy life, she came to that. subscribe button if you haven't come hang out with me on Instagram and Twitter yet and thank you so much for watching, see you around.