Vlad Andriescu14: 00 19.08.2014 
One of the most popular words in the world of technology this year is sapphire. The screens made of sapphire crystal will be the star of the next generation of smartphones. Apple is preparing such a smartphone, but until then, the Japanese from Kyocera launched one on the US market.
Kyocera Brigadier is the first smartphone this year to have a sapphire screen and boasts of enduring in environments where only Bear Grylls would work. The phone is not made for business people, but for adventurers, being water and dust resistant. Pocket Now tested him, stabbed him with a knife, stoned him and stabbed him in river water. The Kyocera Brigadier has a 4.5-inch screen with 720p (HD) resolution, an 8-megapixel camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. The processor is a 1.4 Ghz quad-core, the RAM memory will be 2 GB, and the storage capacity will be 16 GB, according to Pocket Now. The terminal was launched by the American operator Verizon. You can see how well a sapphire screen smartphone lasts in the pictures below.
Playtech.ro wrote a week ago about the tests that Kyocera did with their smartphone. You can see the video they made below.