Huawei Ascend P7 Will Sport Sapphire Screen Starting Next Month

Huawei just had an interview with Engadget and told them that they plan to work on sapphire material for its current flagship device Ascend P7's screen. Yes you heard that right, the Chinese company is going to grace the Ascend P7 with sapphire display with the first batch coming out next month and second batch in November.

Sapphire is a very tough material which according to a post on CNet is the hardest material next to Diamond ( that sounds like expensive too). The image you see above shows the P7 with the sapphire screen which was posted by Huawei's Device Chairman Yu Chengdong on Chinese micro-blogging site Weibo.

It is not the first time a sapphire is equipped on a smartphone, iPhone 5S has the first one to use it as its protection on the TouchID button of the device. There are also reports roaming around that Apple is planning to have its next iPhone device covered in sapphire. It is really becoming a thing now for premium devices. And if this is going to be a success, we can expect Samsung to follow too. 

Everyone is assuming that the Ascend P7 device will sport the same specs found on the current version. But we cannot be certain until we hear more about the new sapphire variant at the upcoming Sept event Huawei has next month. 

Huawei Ascend P7 Specs:

- 5" Full HD IPS Display
- 1920x1080 resolution , 441ppi
- Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- 1.8GHz Quad-core Cortex A9 HiSilicon Kirin Processor
- 2GB RAM
- 16GB internal storage
- Supports microSD card up to 64GB
- 13MP Rear camera
- 8MP Front camera
- Android 4.4.2 Kitkat
- 2,500mAh Battery