Liquid metal to replace glass in next iPhone, report

Life

20 April 2012

In one of the more bizarre reports to come from the iPhone rumour mill, Korea’s Electronic Times Internet has claimed that the next generation of iPhone will be adopting "unprecedented materials" for its main bodies, specifically liquid metal.

ETnews says that the iPhone 5 (assuming it will be called that and not follow the iPad’s lead in dropping the model numbers) will be unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and the use of liquid metal will give the device an "outer surface smooth like liquid".

This isn’t the first report of the possibility of liquid metal appearing in Apple’s devices.

In 2010 Apple was said to be seeking a number of experts on amorphous metals, as the company planned to create hardware from newly licensed, super-durable custom metal alloy known as Liquidmetal.

According to that report, Apple paid at least $10.9 million in licensing fees to Liquidmetal Technology to use Liquidmetal exclusively in the field of electronics.

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