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CTOnews.com8 news on March 15, as a handheld device, the touch of the mobile phone has always attracted a lot of attention. To this end, mobile phone manufacturers have developed plastic, glass, plain leather, ceramic and many other materials of the back of the phone. Ceramic materials have only appeared on a few high-end flagship mobile phones, such as Xiaomi MIX 4, OPPO Find X5 Pro and so on.

An Apple patent shows a zirconia ceramic material that can be used in future watch models, Forbes reported yesterday. Most importantly, the material could also be used in iPhone, which means that Apple may launch a ceramic version of iPhone in the future, greatly improving the feel of the iPhone.

The patent is called "Electronic Devices with textured Zirconia-based components". Apple introduced in the patent that zirconia-based components can provide a matte appearance for the outer surface of electronic devices. Although the patent does not give full details of the zirconia-based assembly, the patent indicates that the zirconia-based assembly can be made of ceramics, such as partially stabilized zirconia ceramics or alumina toughened zirconia ceramics.

Therefore, in the future, Apple may use ceramic material instead of toughened glass to launch the iPhone of ceramic fuselage. In addition, the matte appearance means that the material may be used in the iPhone Pro series models, and there is a good chance that the standard iPhone will not have a ceramic body.

CTOnews.com learned that zirconia refers to zirconia, which has physical properties such as high hardness, high toughness, wear resistance, corrosion resistance and high temperature resistance, and is the main raw material for manual drilling.

Previously, Xiaomi MIX 4's ceramic fuselage uses high-purity nano-zirconia composites, which reduces the weight of Xiaomi MIX 4's ceramic fuselage by 30% compared with traditional ceramic materials. This makes the machine not only retain the ceramic texture, but also reduce the weight of the whole machine.

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