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iPhone X iPhone X Space Grey PVD/DLC Coated? More scratch resistant?
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What's your wedding band made of? (some are tungsten carbide, which is a 9 on the mohs scale).
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A little concerned that @WilliamG was able to scratch his with a key.
I do have the Space Black DLC coated Watch (my second one now). We're NOT talking about aluminum guys. The DLC coating on the watch in incredibly resistant to abuse. 2+ years on my first watch through everything I could throw at it...not a scratch!
None of us yet knows what particulate was used for the Space Grey iPhone X. I was hoping it was DLC - just a different colour / combination of carbon for the phone. But, if it scratches that easily, it certainly isn't.
I know some people had complaints about the black link bracelet - that's also coated using the PVD process, but it's a thinner coating than the watch body...not sure if it's using the DLC particulate, but it is thinner and will show signs of wearing thin over time (or through repetitive, abrasive use).
I guess we'll see how durable the SG iPhone X is in real use. Rocking mine naked...we'll see how it does.
There's absolutely no chance the coating on the space grey iPhone X is the same as on the Apple Watch. As you said, the space grey Apple Watch holds up super well. The iPhone X? Not so much...
Heh....you only have that short return period.
Good to know that's why.The key thing still bothers me though...but, if you press hard enough with just about anything, you could compromise the softer metal underneath...
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Heh +1 Yep it's definitely a finger print magnet!!!
I wonder if we couldn't apply some sort of car product to the glass on the back to minimize that....but it would be difficult to do because of the edge between the glass and the steel (don't want to get anything into that gap - that would make it visible!!)I know - if you used painter's tape - taped about 1/8" (or 1/16") from the steel edge, then you could safely apply a protectant that works on glass as well as paint. Hmm.
Edit: Problem with doing that....it might make the phone more slippery....not something that we would want, when running it naked!!!
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I know I'm stating the obvious here, but it's glass. Anything when you touch a glass back or front given the iPhone X is going to immediately reflect your fingerprints. Especially the Space gray color.
You really need to stop confusing them in your verbiage.
Space Grey Apple Watch = Aluminum
Space Black Apple Watch = DLC coated stainless steel
Huh? We saw that Apple removed the comments about DLC from the websites and marketing materials after Series 0, but all indications are that they haven't changed the finish whatsoever.
Or, what point where you making?
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Huh? Because people like the shiny stainless steel?
Putting the same coating on would make them both the same colour.
We're talking about the PVD coating on the stainless steel band...nothing to do with the glass.
Edit: It's similar to the Apple Watch - we have the regular stainless steel and we have the black stainless steel.
What we're debating is just how durable this coloured PVD coating is going to be on the iPhone X.
I follow you so far, so why put a coating on the SS band, on the space gray but not the silver phone?We're talking about the PVD coating on the stainless steel band...nothing to do with the glass.
Then why have different coloured watches?
For variety. Having a charcoal coloured band on the Space Grey complements the colour of the back. I mean, you could have put a light coloured particulate on the phone with the white back, but I think they were doing what everyone hinted at - throwing a nod to the original iPhone with having the shiny stainless steel ring.
I got the Space Black Apple Watch and I still managed to scratch it. It fell on sidewalk.
Yep, and we saw another MR member here pretty much demolish theirs in a mountain bike accident. With sufficient force, you're doing to impact the coating as the stainless steel underneath is soft enough to be damaged. The coating isn't thick enough to be structural.
Sorry...I read that to read that "You" fell on sidewalk. If you dropped the watch on the sidewalk and it got a scratch, then there's particulates in that concrete mix that are approaching diamond in hardness. It's not common for regular concrete, but it could happen.
see this is what I was missing. I thought both had SS bands, that were of the same color. I never really noticed that the space gray band didn't include a shiny SS band. I picked up the silver phone without really digging deep into which color I wanted mostly because I'll be slapping a case on the phone anyways.
Exactly!! What colour the phone actually is doesn't matter nearly so much when people are putting a case on it. Both phones have that thin strip of black before the metal edge that is visible from a case - so, in reality, both phones have a black front this year.
The only way people can actually enjoy the sides and the back is to go naked....which a lot of people have a hard time with...especially with how fragile this phone is.
What the member was asking in theory before getting flamed...lol
Was why not put a protective coating on both color phones.
For the silver protective in wa la, clear coat...lol
Apple is annoying, all they had to do was go with brushed stainless steel which still would have had some shine but been very very hard they scratch.
Was why not put a protective coating on both color phones.
For the silver protective in wa la, clear coat...lol
Apple is annoying, all they had to do was go with brushed stainless steel which still would have had some shine but been very very hard they scratch.
Heh...I didn't think that I flamed Mike at all.
(that's why I use smiley faces so much - so people know that I'm not being pissy - there's no tone in text). Old habit from the irc days where you could get banned from a channel pretty quick if one of the Ops took a comment the wrong way. Edit: I was thinking about ceramic...but what Apple should do is see if Corning could bake them a shell that would be impervious to scratches and also offer very good shatter resistance.
Of course there is!
Check out Dbrand, they must have a clear coating. It’s like a screen protector for the sides or whole phone.
Ghost armor also.
I feel like Apple does this crap on perpose
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Heh...I didn't think that I flamed Mike at all.
Edit: I was thinking about ceramic...but what Apple should do is see if Corning could bake them a shell that would be impervious to scratches and also offer very good shatter resistance.
Yea I don’t think Apple cares one bit about people scratching phones. The 7 and 7plus had the best design to avoid scratches, and it prob showed on case sales. Matte is tough to scratch!
The 8 and plus also have those matte aluminum side bands.
Whatever, it’s what they went with and while I will put my phone in a case I refuse to spend another $40-50 on a second protective skin on my phones besides the screen protector...lmaoo, the phone is already $1,500...it should pore me a glass of iced tea when I’m thirsty.
I was meaning the X chassis. I agree the Watch is DLC; didn’t read your comment properly.Huh? We saw that Apple removed the comments about DLC from the websites and marketing materials after Series 0, but all indications are that they haven't changed the finish whatsoever.
Or, what point where you making?
Yeah, that's the big question - what particulates did they actually use for their PVD process and how durable is it going to be. Heh....to repeat the subject of the thread.
Yeah, that's the big question - what particulates did they actually use for their PVD process and how durable is it going to be. Heh....to repeat the subject of the thread.
The video I found gives me hope...
Though other drop tests have been less positive, to be fair.
Heh....NOOOO!!! Sorry, can't watch those. It's going to take a few months of running this naked for me to be comfortable that it's not going to get destroyed (or I'll drop it and its replacement will go in the Apple silicone case).
Can't watch any drop videos...just painful.
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Actually, I'd say this is as grippy as a lot of the aluminum phones....more so than some of them.