Meet the world's first smartphone with Sapphire Shield display (no, it's not an iPhone)

Apple’s iPhone 6 is expected to sport a sapphire display, likely being the first widely available smartphone to offer such a screen - which, as we saw not long ago, is extremely durable (though not indestructible). But Apple won’t be the first to officially launch a smartphone with a sapphire screen in the US, because Kyocera and Verizon today released the Brigadier, an Android handset that features a Sapphire Shield display.



According to Verizon and Kyocera, sapphire “is virtually scratchproof and protects from a screen-first drop onto rocks, where tests show it less likely to break than ...